# NewsBlur

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/newsblur/  
**Website:** https://www.newsblur.com/api  
**APIs profiled:** 7

NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. It is an RSS/Atom feed aggregator with training-based intelligence (hide or highlight stories per feed), original-site and original-text views, saved (starred) stories, folders, OPML import/export, and a social layer of shareable "blurblogs" with following, comments and likes. NewsBlur is open source (MIT, github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur), runs native iOS, macOS and Android apps, and exposes a documented HTTP API plus an official hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at newsblur.com/mcp for AI agents. This profile captures NewsBlur's public API surface for the API Evangelist network.

## Kin Score — 39.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 52.1 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 38.7 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **NewsBlur authentication API** — Login, logout and signup.
- **NewsBlur classifiers API** — Intelligence training classifiers.
- **NewsBlur feed-management API** — Subscriptions, folders and organization.
- **NewsBlur feeds API** — Feed subscription, search and metadata.
- **NewsBlur import-export API** — OPML import and export.
- **NewsBlur social API** — Blurblogs, sharing, following and comments.
- **NewsBlur stories API** — Reading, marking and starring stories.

## MCP servers (1)

- **NewsBlur MCP Server** — NewsBlur ships an official hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI agents (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client) interact with a use...

## Security (2)

- **Newsblur Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Newsblur Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Tags

Company, RSS, News, Feed Reader, Aggregator, Social, Content, Media, Open-Source, MCP

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