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 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Content API, Editions API, Sections API, and 3 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 9 more developer resources.

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31.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

News Media Content Articles Journalism

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 31.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.9 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 29/100 · 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 28.6 — up to +14.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 54.5 — up to +11.4 composite points

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OPEN COLLECTION

The Guardian Content Sections API

OPEN COLLECTION

The Guardian Content Tags API

OPEN COLLECTION

The Guardian API pricing

Not yet checked against The Guardian's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-13 from open-platform.theguardian.com/access/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Developer (Free) free	Free
Commercial commercial	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Requests per second (developer tier): 12 requests per second
Requests per day (developer tier): 5000 requests per day
Requests per second (commercial tier): unlimited requests per second

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against The Guardian's documentation. All 4 limits →

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

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

The Guardian

SLA

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 — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

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 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

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
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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/
  tags:
  - News
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://open-platform.theguardian.com/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/guardian-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/guardian-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/guardian-finops.yml
- 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

The Guardian API — frequently asked questions

Does The Guardian have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from The Guardian, including The Guardian Content API, The Guardian Content API and The Guardian Editions API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the The Guardian API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for The Guardian, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the The Guardian API?

The Guardian uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Guardian Authentication.

How much does the The Guardian API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for The Guardian, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the The Guardian API ready for AI agents?

The Guardian has a Kin Score of 31.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.2 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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