The Guardian

The Guardian newspaper REST API providing access to 2M+ articles, news content, sections, tags, editions, and real-time breaking news from Guardian journalists worldwide. The API covers all articles published since 1999 and supports advanced search, filtering by section, tag, date range, and edition (UK, US, Australia).

The Guardian publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Content API, Editions API, Sections API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include News, Media, Content, Articles, and Journalism.

The The Guardian catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

The Guardian’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, support, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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39.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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1 APIs

News Media Content Articles Journalism

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 39.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20

Access Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Contract Governance 1.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 30/100 · 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 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 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 6

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

The Guardian Content API

Search and retrieve articles, news content, and multimedia from The Guardian's archive of 2 million+ pieces of content published since 1999. Supports keyword search, section fil...

The Guardian Content API

Search and retrieve Guardian content items

The Guardian Editions API

Browse Guardian editions (UK, US, AU, International, Europe)

The Guardian Sections API

Browse Guardian sections

The Guardian Tags API

Browse and search Guardian tags (keywords, series, contributors, etc.)

The Guardian

Access all the content the Guardian creates, categorised by tags and section

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

The Guardian Content API

OPEN COLLECTION

The Guardian Content Editions API

OPEN COLLECTION

The Guardian Content Sections API

OPEN COLLECTION

The Guardian Content Tags API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Guardian Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Guardian Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Guardian Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Guardian Context

7 classes · 29 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

The Guardian API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 10

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

ContentItem

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Edition

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EditionsResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ItemResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Section

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SectionsResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagsResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Content Item

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Search Response

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Sections Response

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Tags Response

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

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

Guardian Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Guardian Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Guardian Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Guardian Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

RegistrationForm

RegistrationForm

Source (apis.yml)

aid: guardian
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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/guardian.png
name: The Guardian
description: The Guardian newspaper REST API providing access to 2M+ articles, news content, sections, tags, editions, and
  real-time breaking news from Guardian journalists worldwide. The API covers all articles published since 1999 and supports
  advanced search, filtering by section, tag, date range, and edition (UK, US, Australia).
url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
x-category: News
x-tier: 2
tags:
- News
- Media
- Content
- Articles
- Journalism
apis:
- name: The Guardian Content API
  description: Search and retrieve articles, news content, and multimedia from The Guardian's archive of 2 million+ pieces
    of content published since 1999. Supports keyword search, section filtering, tag filtering, date range queries, and retrieval
    of full article body text with metadata.
  humanURL: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/
  baseURL: https://content.guardianapis.com/
  tags:
  - News
  - Articles
  - Content
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/access/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/guardian-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/guardian-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/guardian-finops.yml
- aid: guardian:guardian-content-api
  name: The Guardian Content API
  description: Search and retrieve Guardian content items
  humanURL: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/
  baseURL: https://content.guardianapis.com/
  tags:
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/guardian-content-api-openapi.yml
- aid: guardian:guardian-editions-api
  name: The Guardian Editions API
  description: Browse Guardian editions (UK, US, AU, International, Europe)
  humanURL: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/
  baseURL: https://content.guardianapis.com/
  tags:
  - Editions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/guardian-editions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: guardian:guardian-sections-api
  name: The Guardian Sections API
  description: Browse Guardian sections
  humanURL: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/
  baseURL: https://content.guardianapis.com/
  tags:
  - Sections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/guardian-sections-api-openapi.yml
- aid: guardian:guardian-tags-api
  name: The Guardian Tags API
  description: Browse and search Guardian tags (keywords, series, contributors, etc.)
  humanURL: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/
  baseURL: https://content.guardianapis.com/
  tags:
  - Tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/guardian-tags-api-openapi.yml
- name: The Guardian
  description: Access all the content the Guardian creates, categorised by tags and section
  humanURL: http://open-platform.theguardian.com/
  baseURL: http://open-platform.theguardian.com/
  tags:
  - News
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://open-platform.theguardian.com/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/guardian-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/guardian-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/guardian-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/guardian-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/
- type: RegistrationForm
  url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/access/
- type: Support
  url: https://groups.google.com/g/guardian-api-talk
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/legal/terms/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.theguardian.com/info/series/digital-blog/rss
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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