Slashdot

Slashdot is a technology news aggregation and community discussion site founded in 1997, focused on open source software, Linux, science, and technology topics. Known by its tagline "News for nerds, stuff that matters," Slashdot allows readers to submit and vote on stories, comment on articles, and follow developments across the technology landscape. The site offers RSS and Atom feeds for programmatic access to its content across multiple topic sections including developers, Linux, games, science, Apple, and more. Feed requests are rate-limited to one per 30 minutes.

Slashdot publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Feeds API. Tagged areas include Media, Open-Source, Technology News, and RSS.

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

Slashdot’s developer surface includes FAQ and 19 more developer resources.

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27.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

Media Open-Source Technology News RSS

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 27.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13

Contract Governance 7.3 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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

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.

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APIs 1

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

Slashdot Feeds API

The Feeds API from Slashdot — 8 operation(s) for feeds.

Open Collections 9

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Slashdot RSS/Atom Feeds Apple API

OPEN COLLECTION

Slashdot RSS/Atom Feeds Apple Developers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Slashdot RSS/Atom Apple Feeds API

OPEN COLLECTION

Slashdot RSS/Atom Feeds Apple Games API

OPEN COLLECTION

Slashdot RSS/Atom Feeds Apple Linux API

OPEN COLLECTION

Slashdot RSS/Atom Feeds Apple Rights API

OPEN COLLECTION

Slashdot RSS/Atom Feeds

OPEN COLLECTION

Slashdot RSS/Atom Feeds Apple Science API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Slashdot Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Slashdot Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Slashdot Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Slashdot Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Slashdot API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Slashdot Rss Feed Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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

Slashdot Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Slashdot Agentic Access

8 operations

8 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

FAQ

FAQ

FAQ-Feeds

FAQ-Feeds

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

About

About

Other 8

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

RSS

RSS

RSS

RSS

RSS

RSS

RSS

Firehose

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: slashdot
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/slashdot/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Slashdot
tags:
- Media
- Open-Source
- Technology News
- RSS
tags_raw:
- Media
- Open Source
- Technology News
- RSS
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/slashdot.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-03-24'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
segments:
- Media
- Technology News
description: Slashdot is a technology news aggregation and community discussion site founded in 1997, focused on open source
  software, Linux, science, and technology topics. Known by its tagline "News for nerds, stuff that matters," Slashdot allows
  readers to submit and vote on stories, comment on articles, and follow developments across the technology landscape. The
  site offers RSS and Atom feeds for programmatic access to its content across multiple topic sections including developers,
  Linux, games, science, Apple, and more. Feed requests are rate-limited to one per 30 minutes.
apis:
- aid: slashdot:slashdot-feeds-api
  name: Slashdot Feeds API
  description: The Feeds API from Slashdot — 8 operation(s) for feeds.
  humanURL: https://slashdot.org/faq/feeds.shtml
  tags:
  - Feeds
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/slashdot-feeds-api-openapi.yml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain
  - type: RSS
    url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers
  - type: RSS
    url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotApple
  - type: RSS
    url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotLinux
  - type: RSS
    url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotGames
  - type: RSS
    url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotScience
  - type: RSS
    url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/slashdot-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/slashdot-vocabulary.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/slashdot-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/slashdot-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/slashdot-media
- type: Website
  url: https://slashdot.org/
- type: RSS
  url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain
- type: RSS
  url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers
- type: RSS
  url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotApple
- type: RSS
  url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotLinux
- type: RSS
  url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotGames
- type: RSS
  url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotScience
- type: RSS
  url: https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline
- type: About
  url: https://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml
- type: FAQ
  url: https://slashdot.org/faq/index.shtml
- type: FAQ-Feeds
  url: https://slashdot.org/faq/feeds.shtml
- type: Firehose
  url: https://slashdot.org/faq/firehose.shtml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://slashdot.org/privacy
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/slashdot-rss-openapi.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/slashdot-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/slashdot-vocabulary.yml
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://slashdot.org/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'

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