Mashable

Mashable is a digital media and entertainment company covering tech, culture, and digital trends. Founded in 2005, Mashable has grown into a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. Mashable does not publish a first-party REST API, but its headlines and articles are accessible via the third-party News API REST service.

Mashable publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Articles API and Headlines API. Tagged areas include Articles, Digital Culture, Headlines, Media, and News.

The Mashable catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Mashable’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, YouTube channel, GitHub presence, and 16 more developer resources.

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32.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 50/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

ArticlesDigital CultureHeadlines Media News Technology News

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 32.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 17

Access Clarity 4.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.4 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

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

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 Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 23.4 — up to +15.3 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 33.3 — up to +13.3 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 47.8 — up to +13.1 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

Mashable Articles API

Search across all indexed articles.

Mashable Headlines API

Top headline retrieval.

Open Collections 3

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

Mashable via News Articles API

OPEN COLLECTION

Mashable via News Articles Headlines API

OPEN COLLECTION

Mashable via News API

OPEN COLLECTION

Mashable API pricing

Not yet checked against Mashable's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Mashable's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Mashable Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Mashable Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Mashable Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Mashable API Rules

56 rules · 54 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Mashable Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Mashable Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Mashable Agentic Access

2 operations

2 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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Newsletter

Facebook

Instagram

LinkedIn

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Advertising

Advertising

RSS

RSS

Source (apis.yml)

aid: mashable
name: Mashable
description: Mashable is a digital media and entertainment company covering tech, culture, and digital trends. Founded in
  2005, Mashable has grown into a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. Mashable does not publish a first-party
  REST API, but its headlines and articles are accessible via the third-party News API REST service.
type: Index
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: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/mashable.png
access: 3rd-Party
tags:
- Articles
- Digital Culture
- Headlines
- Media
- News
- Technology News
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mashable/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-24'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: mashable:mashable-articles-api
  name: Mashable Articles API
  description: Search across all indexed articles.
  humanURL: https://newsapi.org/s/mashable-api
  baseURL: https://newsapi.org/v2
  tags:
  - Articles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mashable-articles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://newsapi.org/s/mashable-api
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs/get-started
  - type: Endpoints
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/top-headlines
  - type: Endpoints
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/everything
- aid: mashable:mashable-headlines-api
  name: Mashable Headlines API
  description: Top headline retrieval.
  humanURL: https://newsapi.org/s/mashable-api
  baseURL: https://newsapi.org/v2
  tags:
  - Headlines
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mashable-headlines-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://newsapi.org/s/mashable-api
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs/get-started
  - type: Endpoints
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/top-headlines
  - type: Endpoints
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/everything
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/mashable-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/mashable-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/mashable-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/mashable-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/mashable-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/mashable-authentication.yml
- url: https://mashable.com/
  name: Mashable Website
  type: Website
- url: https://mashable.com/about
  name: About Mashable
  type: About
- url: https://mashable.com/advertise
  name: Advertise with Mashable
  type: Advertising
- url: https://mashable.com/newsletter
  name: Mashable Newsletter
  type: Newsletter
- url: https://newsapi.org/s/mashable-api
  name: Mashable API via News API
  type: Documentation
- url: http://feeds.mashable.com/mashable
  name: Mashable RSS Feed
  type: RSS
- url: https://mashable.com/privacy
  name: Privacy Policy
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://mashable.com/terms
  name: Terms of Service
  type: TermsOfService
- url: https://twitter.com/mashable
  name: Mashable on X (Twitter)
  type: X
- url: https://www.facebook.com/mashable/
  name: Mashable on Facebook
  type: Facebook
- url: https://www.instagram.com/mashable/
  name: Mashable on Instagram
  type: Instagram
- url: https://www.youtube.com/user/mashable
  name: Mashable on YouTube
  type: YouTube
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mashable
  name: Mashable on LinkedIn
  type: LinkedIn
- url: https://github.com/mashable
  name: Mashable on GitHub
  type: GitHub
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Mashable API — frequently asked questions

Does Mashable have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Mashable, including Mashable Articles API and Mashable Headlines API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Mashable API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Mashable, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Mashable API?

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

How much does the Mashable API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Mashable, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Mashable API ready for AI agents?

Mashable has a Kin Score of 32.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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