Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media is a nonprofit organization providing independent, age-rated reviews and ratings of movies, TV shows, books, video games, apps, podcasts, websites, and YouTube channels. The Common Sense Media Reviews API (v3) exposes this catalog via a partner-keyed REST surface hosted at api.commonsense.org/api/v3, with the partnership granted through Common Sense's Business Partner Program. The API is used by parenting apps, smart-TV guides, education platforms, and family- discovery products to surface age-appropriate guidance and the Common Sense Selection award.

Common Sense Media publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Reviews API and system API. Tagged areas include Application, Books, Media, Movies, and Non-Profit.

The Common Sense Media catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Common Sense Media’s developer surface includes authentication and 15 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

30.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 35/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-24 · rubric v0.12.1

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 APIs

Application Books Media Movies Non-Profit Podcasts Ratings Reviews Television Video Games YouTube

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scored 2026-08-24 · rubric v0.12.1

Composite quality — 30.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 15.5 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13

Contract Governance 1.6 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 35/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 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 4 / 4

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APIs 2

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Common Sense Media Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

SwaggerUI

SwaggerUI

ImplementationGuide

ImplementationGuide

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Spectral

Spectral

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

PartnerProgramContact

PartnerProgramContact

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

DeveloperCenter

DeveloperCenter

APIOverview

APIOverview

APIv3

APIv3

Source (apis.yml)

aid: common-sense-media
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/common-sense-media/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Common Sense Media
tags:
- Application
- Books
- Media
- Movies
- Non-Profit
- Podcasts
- Ratings
- Reviews
- Television
- Video Games
- YouTube
tags_raw:
- Apps
- Books
- Media
- Movies
- Non-Profit
- Podcasts
- Ratings
- Reviews
- Television
- Video Games
- YouTube
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/common-sense-media.png
access: 3rd-Party
kind: company
created: '2025-03-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consumer
description: Common Sense Media is a nonprofit organization providing independent, age-rated reviews and ratings of movies,
  TV shows, books, video games, apps, podcasts, websites, and YouTube channels. The Common Sense Media Reviews API (v3) exposes
  this catalog via a partner-keyed REST surface hosted at api.commonsense.org/api/v3, with the partnership granted through
  Common Sense's Business Partner Program. The API is used by parenting apps, smart-TV guides, education platforms, and family-
  discovery products to surface age-appropriate guidance and the Common Sense Selection award.
apis:
- aid: common-sense-media:common-sense-media-reviews-api
  name: Common Sense Media Reviews API
  tags:
  - Application
  - Books
  - Media
  - Movies
  - Ratings
  - Reviews
  - Television
  - Video Games
  tags_raw:
  - Apps
  - Books
  - Media
  - Movies
  - Ratings
  - Reviews
  - Television
  - Video Games
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.commonsense.org/api/v3
  humanURL: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers
  properties:
  - url: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers/api-overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers/api/v3
    type: APIv3Overview
  - url: https://api.commonsense.org/docs/v3/
    type: SwaggerUI
  - url: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers/api/implementation
    type: ImplementationGuide
  - url: openapi/common-sense-media-reviews-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: JSON REST API exposing Common Sense Media's reviews and ratings catalog. Each review includes recommended age,
    age-rating group (littleKids/kids/tweens/teens), star rating, content grid (educational, message, role-model, diversity,
    violence, sex, language, consumerism, drugs), parents-need-to-know guidance, talking points, and product metadata. Clients
    filter by media type, age range, star range, character strengths, topics, genres, and the Common Sense Selection award.
    Authentication uses a partner-issued x-api-key header. The API is GET-only, HTTPS-only, rate-limited to 100 unique requests
    per minute, and content is refreshed at most hourly.
  x-features:
  - x-api-key header authentication
  - GET-only, HTTPS-only access
  - Filter by mediaType (app, book, game, movie, podcast, tv, website, youtube)
  - Age-range and star-range deepObject filters
  - Filter by character strengths, topics, genres
  - Common Sense Selection award filter (csmAward=true)
  - Vocabulary lookup endpoint for filterable fields
  - English and Spanish (en, es) language responses
  - Rate limited to 100 unique requests per minute
  x-use-cases:
  - Embedding age-rated reviews in parenting and family apps
  - Powering smart-TV guides with content advisories
  - Driving content discovery in education platforms
  - Surfacing Common Sense Selection award lists
  - Filtering streaming or library catalogs by recommended age
- aid: common-sense-media:common-sense-media-system-api
  name: Common Sense Media system API
  description: System and health endpoints.
  humanURL: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers
  baseURL: https://api.commonsense.org/api/v3
  tags:
  - System
  tags_raw:
  - system
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/common-sense-media-system-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/common-sense-media-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/common-sense-media-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/common-sense-media-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/commonsense-org
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/common-sense-media
- type: Website
  url: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/
- type: DeveloperCenter
  url: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers
- type: APIOverview
  url: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers/api-overview
- type: APIv3
  url: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers/api/v3
- type: SwaggerUI
  url: https://api.commonsense.org/docs/v3/
- type: ImplementationGuide
  url: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers/api/implementation
- type: PartnerProgramContact
  url: https://commonsense.my.site.com/membersupport/s/contactsupport
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/privacy-policy
- url: json-ld/common-sense-media-context.jsonld
  type: JSONLD
- url: json-schema/common-sense-media-review-schema.json
  type: JSONSchema
- url: rules/common-sense-media-rules.yml
  type: Spectral
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'

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