# Dotdash Meredith / People Inc **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/meredith/ **Website:** https://www.people.inc/ **APIs profiled:** 30 Profile for People Inc (formerly Dotdash Meredith) in the API Evangelist network. America's largest digital and print publisher, operating 40+ brands including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Investopedia, Verywell, Food & Wine, Southern Living, Real Simple, Travel + Leisure, Byrdie, InStyle, The Spruce, EatingWell, Serious Eats, Simply Recipes, Brides, Health, Shape, Parents, Entertainment Weekly, Lifewire, TreeHugger, TripSavvy, The Balance, and more. An IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) operating company since the December 2021 merger of Dotdash and Meredith Corporation ($2.7B transaction); rebranded to "People Inc." on July 31, 2025 to elevate the company's flagship brand. There is no public read/write developer API surface — the addressable machine-readable surface is per-brand RSS feeds, XML sitemaps, robots.txt policy declarations, and the D/Cipher intent-based contextual advertising platform sold as a B2B media buy (no self-serve developer console). All major brand domains explicitly disallow ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, CCBot, PerplexityBot and 70+ other AI crawlers in robots.txt — with the OpenAI crawlers (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User) notably exempted down to a single /thmb/ path, and sponsored-content paths (*/presented/, */integrated/) carved back OUT of the denylist so advertiser content stays crawlable while editorial does not. The policy is enforced at the Cloudflare edge as well as declared: as of 2026-08-12 every People Inc host answers a declared AI crawler with HTTP 402 Payment Required and the body "If you wish to license content from People Inc, please contact contentlicensing@people.inc". Discovery metadata (robots.txt, sitemap.xml, google-news-sitemap.xml and an RFC 9116 security.txt pointing at a private HackerOne program) is served at 200 to every client; article and RSS paths return 403 to every non-browser client. The map is open, the corpus is not. ## Kin Score — 45.2 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 45.2). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 92.6 | | Contract Quality | 19.7 | | Governance | 43.2 | | Contract Governance | 43.2 | | Operational Transparency | 28.9 | | Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 | | Commercial Clarity | 75.0 | | Access Clarity | 75.0 | Regulatory layer — **Insurance**: 52.3 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 17.5 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | no | | Agentic Access | yes | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | no | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | documented | | OpenAPI Examples | no | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | yes | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low). ## APIs (30) - **PEOPLE RSS Feeds** — RSS 2.0 feeds for People.com, the flagship celebrity-and-human-interest brand of People Inc. People.com is the largest property in the portfolio (~187M monthly visits per 2025 e... - **Better Homes & Gardens RSS Feeds** — RSS 2.0 feeds for BHG.com, People Inc's flagship home + gardening brand and the second-largest US monthly magazine by circulation. - **Allrecipes RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Allrecipes.com, the largest food brand in the portfolio and one of the most-trafficked recipe sites globally. - **Investopedia RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Investopedia.com, the dominant retail-investor finance reference site in the portfolio. Carries dictionary-style term entries and breaking finance/markets articles. - **Verywell Family RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds across the Verywell sub-brands (Verywell Health, Verywell Mind, Verywell Fit). Largest consumer-health network in the US per Comscore. - **Food & Wine RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Food & Wine, the culinary lifestyle brand. - **Real Simple RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Real Simple, a Home + Lifestyle brand. - **Southern Living RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Southern Living, a regional lifestyle brand. - **Travel + Leisure RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Travel + Leisure, the brand that also seeds the publicly-traded Wyndham Destinations spin-off. - **Byrdie RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Byrdie, the People Inc beauty brand. - **InStyle RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for InStyle, fashion and beauty brand. - **Brides RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Brides, the wedding planning brand. - **EatingWell RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for EatingWell, the healthy-eating food brand. - **Serious Eats RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Serious Eats, the technique-driven food brand. - **Simply Recipes RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Simply Recipes. - **The Spruce RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for The Spruce, The Spruce Eats, and The Spruce Pets. - **Health RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Health, the wellness magazine brand. - **Shape RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Shape, the fitness and women's wellness brand. - **Parents RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Parents, the family + parenting brand. - **Entertainment Weekly RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Entertainment Weekly. - **Lifewire RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Lifewire, the consumer-tech how-to brand. - **Treehugger RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Treehugger, the sustainability and environment brand. - **TripSavvy RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for TripSavvy, the travel guides brand. - **The Balance RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for The Balance Money, personal finance brand. - **Daily Paws RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Daily Paws, the pets brand. - **Martha Stewart RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for MarthaStewart.com, the home/lifestyle brand. - **Liquor.com RSS Feeds** — RSS feeds for Liquor.com, the spirits and cocktail brand. - **XML Sitemaps Across Properties** — Every People Inc brand exposes a discoverable sitemap index at /sitemap.xml with per-section sitemap files. These are the canonical machine-readable index of all published URLs ... - **D/Cipher Contextual Advertising Platform** — D/Cipher is People Inc's proprietary intent-based contextual advertising platform — a cookieless targeting solution that derives audience-intent signals from how readers engage ... - **Specialty Marketing Solutions (SMS) Suite** — A bundle of B2B services run by People Inc with no public developer surface but with discrete branded sub-products: Content Solutions (content marketing consultancy), Awards & A... ## Agentic access (1) - **Meredith Agentic Access** — 0 operations ## Security (2) - **Meredith Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC - **Meredith Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published ## Plans (1) - **Meredith Plans Pricing** ## Tags Media, Publishing, Magazines, Content, Advertising, Contextual Advertising, Lifestyle, News, RSS, Sitemap, Robots, AI Policy, IaC --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/meredith/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.