CBS (Paramount Global)

CBS is the flagship broadcast television network of Paramount (Paramount Skydance Corporation, formerly Paramount Global), covering CBS Entertainment, CBS News, CBS Sports and the CBS owned-and-operated stations, and feeding Paramount+. CBS publishes no developer portal and no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or GraphQL contract. Two first-party machine-readable surfaces are nonetheless live and anonymously reachable and are catalogued here: the legacy CBS Sports Fantasy REST API at api.cbssports.com/fantasy (v3.0, opened to third-party developers in 2012 and still returning HTTP 200 in September 2026, though its portal at developer.cbssports.com is now NXDOMAIN and its host serves Disallow to every robot), and the CBS News RSS feeds at cbsnews.com/latest/rss. Partner, syndication, advertising (EyeQ / Conduit) and distribution APIs stay private with no public contract.

CBS (Paramount Global) is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Broadcasting, CBS News, CBS Sports, Entertainment, and Media.

CBS (Paramount Global)’s developer surface includes authentication, support, signup flow, engineering blog, and 27 more developer resources.

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23.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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Kin Score

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Composite quality — 23.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.9 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 28.6 — up to +14.3 composite points
Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Broadcast Television (ATSC 3.0 / NEXTGEN TV, HbbTV, DVB)	standard	26.8 (thin)	-	-
Film & Media Identifiers (EIDR, ISAN, MovieLabs, DPP)	standard	26.8 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

RSS

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

CBS Sports Fantasy API

The CBS Sports Fantasy Platform REST API, version 3.0. Opened to third-party developers in January 2012 so apps could read league, team, player, draft, transaction and scoring d...

CBS News RSS Feeds

CBS News publishes a family of public RSS 2.0 feeds covering top stories and each editorial section (US, world, politics, technology, entertainment, health, moneywatch, science,...

CBS (Paramount Global) API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cbs Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cbs Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cbs Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect/token · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Cbs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

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Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

PressReleases

PressReleases

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 7

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

CBSNews

About

Careers

InvestorRelations

InvestorRelations

Blog

Blog

Scroll for all 7

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CBSSports

Streaming

ParentCompany

CookiePolicy

Accessibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cbs
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cbs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: CBS (Paramount Global)
tags:
- Broadcasting
- CBS News
- CBS Sports
- Entertainment
- Media
- News
- Paramount
- Streaming
- Television
- Fantasy Sports
- Syndication
- RSS
- Fortune 500
kind: contract
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  - probe
  generated: '2026-09-05'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cbs.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-03-23'
modified: '2026-09-05'
position: Producing
description: 'CBS is the flagship broadcast television network of Paramount (Paramount Skydance Corporation, formerly Paramount
  Global), covering CBS Entertainment, CBS News, CBS Sports and the CBS owned-and-operated stations, and feeding Paramount+.
  CBS publishes no developer portal and no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or GraphQL contract. Two first-party machine-readable surfaces
  are nonetheless live and anonymously reachable and are catalogued here: the legacy CBS Sports Fantasy REST API at api.cbssports.com/fantasy
  (v3.0, opened to third-party developers in 2012 and still returning HTTP 200 in September 2026, though its portal at developer.cbssports.com
  is now NXDOMAIN and its host serves Disallow to every robot), and the CBS News RSS feeds at cbsnews.com/latest/rss. Partner,
  syndication, advertising (EyeQ / Conduit) and distribution APIs stay private with no public contract.'
apis:
- aid: cbs:cbs-sports-fantasy-api
  name: CBS Sports Fantasy API
  description: 'The CBS Sports Fantasy Platform REST API, version 3.0. Opened to third-party developers in January 2012 so
    apps could read league, team, player, draft, transaction and scoring data out of CBS Sports fantasy games. The developer
    program has been retired — developer.cbssports.com no longer resolves and no machine-readable contract is published anywhere
    — but the API host is still live: GET /fantasy/sports returns HTTP 200 with a JSON or XML envelope anonymously. League-scoped
    resources require an access token issued to a member of at least one league. Responses carry a statusCode / statusMessage
    / uri / uriAlias envelope; the version and response_format query parameters select the contract version (3.0) and JSON
    vs XML. api.cbssports.com/robots.txt serves `Disallow: /` to all user agents.'
  humanURL: https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/
  baseURL: https://api.cbssports.com/fantasy
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cbs.png
  tags:
  - Fantasy Sports
  - Sports
  - CBS Sports
  - League
  - Player
  - Statistics
  tags_raw:
  - Fantasy Sports
  - Sports
  - CBS Sports
  - Leagues
  - Players
  - Statistics
  properties:
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cbs-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cbs-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/cbs-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/cbs-lifecycle.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/cbs-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/
- aid: cbs:cbs-news-rss-feeds
  name: CBS News RSS Feeds
  description: CBS News publishes a family of public RSS 2.0 feeds covering top stories and each editorial section (US, world,
    politics, technology, entertainment, health, moneywatch, science, space and the network's video and podcast output). The
    feed index at cbsnews.com/rss/ lists them. Each feed is a plain, unauthenticated HTTP GET returning RSS 2.0 XML with content,
    dc, media and CBS-namespaced extensions. It is the only documented, indexed, machine-readable content surface CBS News
    offers; there is no JSON content API, no OpenAPI and no key.
  humanURL: https://www.cbsnews.com/rss/
  baseURL: https://www.cbsnews.com/latest/rss
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cbs.png
  tags:
  - RSS
  - News
  - Syndication
  - Content
  - CBS News
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cbsnews.com/rss/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.cbsnews.com/latest/rss/main
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cbs-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cbs-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cbs-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cbs-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cbs-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cbs-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cbs-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cbs-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/cbs-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cbs-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cbs-rate-limits.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cbs-llms.txt
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cbsinteractive
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paramount-global
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cbs.com
- type: CBSNews
  url: https://www.cbsnews.com/
- type: CBSSports
  url: https://www.cbssports.com/
- type: Streaming
  url: https://www.paramountplus.com/
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://www.paramount.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.paramount.com/
- type: Careers
  url: https://careers.paramount.com/
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://ir.paramount.com/
- type: PressReleases
  url: https://ir.paramount.com/press-releases
- type: Support
  url: https://help.cbs.com/s/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.cbs.com/account/signup/createaccount/
- type: Login
  url: https://www.cbs.com/account/signin/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.viacomcbs.legal/us/en/cbsi/terms-of-use
  description: Paramount / CBS Interactive Terms of Use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.paramount.com/en/policy
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://privacy.paramount.com/cookies
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://www.cbs.com/closed-captioning/
- url: https://www.cbsnews.com/latest/rss/main
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  email: info@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 13
  pass: local-v3

CBS (Paramount Global) API — frequently asked questions

Does CBS (Paramount Global) have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from CBS (Paramount Global), including CBS Sports Fantasy API and CBS News RSS Feeds.

How do I authenticate with the CBS (Paramount Global) API?

CBS (Paramount Global) documents its authentication (oauth2/openIdConnect/token · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cbs Authentication.

Is the CBS (Paramount Global) API ready for AI agents?

CBS (Paramount Global) has a Kin Score of 23.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 16.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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