# Ground

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ground/  
**Website:** https://ground.news/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Ground News is a news aggregation platform, built by Snapwise Inc. and backed by Techstars, that helps readers see every side of every story. It gathers coverage of each news event from across the political spectrum and pairs every story with media bias ratings, factuality assessments, and source-ownership transparency. Signature features include the Blindspot Feed that surfaces stories disproportionately covered by the left or right, a per-story bias-distribution bar, local news customization, daily briefing newsletters, browser extensions, and iOS/Android apps. Ground News does not currently publish a public developer API, developer portal, or API documentation, and its one live machine surface, api.ground.news, is the private backend of its own apps. The single integration point it does publish is an unauthenticated embeddable iframe story widget. This profile captures that widget, the company's public web and commercial surface, the contract-discovery probe record, and its domain-security posture.

## Kin Score — 20.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.1 from 20.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 65.8 |
| Access Clarity | 65.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Ground Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ground Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, News, Media, Media Bias, News Aggregation, Journalism, Media Monitoring, Consumer Apps

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ground/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.