SmartNews

SmartNews is a news-discovery company whose consumer app ranks and delivers news to tens of millions of readers in Japan and the United States. For developers it operates the SmartNews Ads platform and publishes the SmartNews Marketing API (v3) — a REST API for programmatically managing advertising campaigns, ad groups, ads, media files, custom audiences, conversion pixels, and Business Manager product catalogs, plus an Insights API for performance reporting. The API uses OAuth 2.0 bearer (JWT) access tokens and is documented with a public OpenAPI 3.0 reference and an official API-spec repository.

SmartNews publishes 16 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Ad API, Ad Group API, article category API, and 13 more. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, News, Advertising, and AdTech.

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

SmartNews’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, signup flow, changelog, and 30 more developer resources.

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52.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Company Consumer News Advertising AdTech Marketing Media Campaign Management

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Advertising Sales & Operations Management

BC-3760

adad-groupcampaigninsights

POST /api/ma/v3/ad_accounts/{ad_account_id}/campaigns/{campaign_id}/ad_groups GET /api/ma/v3/ad_accounts/{ad_account_id}/insights/{layer} POST /api/ma/v3/ad_accounts/{ad_account_id}/ad_groups/{ad_group_id}/ads POST /api/ma/v3/ad_accounts/{ad_account_id}/campaigns

Marketing Management

BC-400

custom-audience

POST /api/ma/v3/ad_accounts/{ad_account_id}/custom_audiences

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 52.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 5.1 / 10

Contract Governance 3.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 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 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
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

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 53.4 — up to +11.7 composite points
Contract Governance scores 33.3 — up to +8.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
News and Media	builds-on	17.2 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

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 16

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

SmartNews Ad API

The ad API from SmartNews — 3 operation(s) for ad.

SmartNews Ad Group API

The ad-group API from SmartNews — 4 operation(s) for ad-group.

SmartNews article category API

The article category API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for article category.

SmartNews Campaign API

The campaign API from SmartNews — 2 operation(s) for campaign.

SmartNews Catalog API

The catalog API from SmartNews — 4 operation(s) for catalog.

SmartNews channel alias label API

The channel alias label API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for channel alias label.

SmartNews Custom Audience API

The custom-audience API from SmartNews — 4 operation(s) for custom-audience.

SmartNews Developer App API

The developer-app API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for developer-app.

SmartNews Insights API

The insights API from SmartNews — 2 operation(s) for insights.

SmartNews Interests API

The interests API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for interests.

SmartNews Locations API

The locations API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for locations.

SmartNews Media File API

The media-file API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for media-file.

SmartNews Pixel API

The pixel API from SmartNews — 2 operation(s) for pixel.

SmartNews Ads Conversion API

Server-to-server conversion event ingestion for SmartNews Ads. Advertisers POST self-attributed web and app conversions (35 event names including Purchase, AddToCart, Lead, Inst...

SmartNews smart view article keyword API

The smart view article keyword API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for smart view article keyword.

SmartNews OAUTH API

The oauth API from SmartNews — 2 operation(s) for oauth.

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Open Collections 15

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

SmartNews Marketing ad API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad ad-group API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad article category API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad campaign API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad catalog API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad channel alias label API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad custom-audience API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad developer-app API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad insights API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad interests API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad locations API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad media-file API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad oauth API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad pixel API

OPEN COLLECTION

SmartNews Marketing ad smart view article keyword API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Build and target a SmartNews custom audience

AGENT SKILL

Launch a SmartNews ad campaign

AGENT SKILL

Report on SmartNews ad performance

AGENT SKILL

SmartNews API pricing

Rate limits

: 1m

All 2 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Smartnews Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Smartnews Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Smartnews Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

SmartNews API Rules

62 rules · 49 errors 11 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Smartnews Marketing Overlay

2 actions · update · smartnews-marketing-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Smartnews Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Smartnews Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Smartnews Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Smartnews Agentic Access

46 operations · 21 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

46 operations · 21 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Sandbox

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Vocabulary

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

Support

ChangeLog

Deprecation

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Plans

Plans

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: smartnews
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: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/smartnews.png
name: SmartNews
description: SmartNews is a news-discovery company whose consumer app ranks and delivers news to tens of millions of readers
  in Japan and the United States. For developers it operates the SmartNews Ads platform and publishes the SmartNews Marketing
  API (v3) — a REST API for programmatically managing advertising campaigns, ad groups, ads, media files, custom audiences,
  conversion pixels, and Business Manager product catalogs, plus an Insights API for performance reporting. The API uses OAuth
  2.0 bearer (JWT) access tokens and is documented with a public OpenAPI 3.0 reference and an official API-spec repository.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/smartnews/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- atomico
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: has-public-api
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- News
- Advertising
- AdTech
- Marketing
- Media
- Campaign Management
apis:
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-ad-api
  name: SmartNews Ad API
  description: The ad API from SmartNews — 3 operation(s) for ad.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - Ad
  tags_raw:
  - ad
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-ad-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-ad-group-api
  name: SmartNews Ad Group API
  description: The ad-group API from SmartNews — 4 operation(s) for ad-group.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - Ad Group
  tags_raw:
  - ad-group
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-ad-group-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-article-category-api
  name: SmartNews article category API
  description: The article category API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for article category.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - article category
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-article-category-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-campaign-api
  name: SmartNews Campaign API
  description: The campaign API from SmartNews — 2 operation(s) for campaign.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - Campaign
  tags_raw:
  - campaign
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-campaign-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-catalog-api
  name: SmartNews Catalog API
  description: The catalog API from SmartNews — 4 operation(s) for catalog.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - Catalog
  tags_raw:
  - catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-channel-alias-label-api
  name: SmartNews channel alias label API
  description: The channel alias label API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for channel alias label.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - channel alias label
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-channel-alias-label-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-custom-audience-api
  name: SmartNews Custom Audience API
  description: The custom-audience API from SmartNews — 4 operation(s) for custom-audience.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - custom-audience
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-custom-audience-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-developer-app-api
  name: SmartNews Developer App API
  description: The developer-app API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for developer-app.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - developer-app
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-developer-app-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-insights-api
  name: SmartNews Insights API
  description: The insights API from SmartNews — 2 operation(s) for insights.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - Insights
  tags_raw:
  - insights
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-insights-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-interests-api
  name: SmartNews Interests API
  description: The interests API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for interests.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - Interests
  tags_raw:
  - interests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-interests-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-locations-api
  name: SmartNews Locations API
  description: The locations API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for locations.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - Location
  tags_raw:
  - locations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-locations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-media-file-api
  name: SmartNews Media File API
  description: The media-file API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for media-file.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - media-file
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-media-file-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-pixel-api
  name: SmartNews Pixel API
  description: The pixel API from SmartNews — 2 operation(s) for pixel.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - Pixel
  tags_raw:
  - pixel
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-pixel-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-conversion-api
  name: SmartNews Ads Conversion API
  description: Server-to-server conversion event ingestion for SmartNews Ads. Advertisers POST self-attributed web and app
    conversions (35 event names including Purchase, AddToCart, Lead, Install and SignUp) to SmartNews for attribution and
    optimization, either singly or in batches of up to 1,000 events. Auth is a token in the Authorization header; a published
    staging host is available for testing before switching to production. Documented in the official SmartNews Ads API spec
    repository and the Ads Help Center — no OpenAPI is published for this surface.
  humanURL: https://help-ads.smartnews.com/en/item-5499/
  baseURL: https://log.smartnews-ads.com
  tags:
  - Conversion
  - Event
  - Attribution
  tags_raw:
  - conversion
  - events
  - attribution
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help-ads.smartnews.com/en/item-5499/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://github.com/smartnews/smartnews-ads-advertising-api-spec/blob/v1.0/smartnews-ads-conversion-api.md
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/smartnews-conversion-events.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/smartnews-sandbox.yml
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-smart-view-article-keyword-api
  name: SmartNews smart view article keyword API
  description: The smart view article keyword API from SmartNews — 1 operation(s) for smart view article keyword.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - smart view article keyword
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-smart-view-article-keyword-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- aid: smartnews:smartnews-oauth-api
  name: SmartNews OAUTH API
  description: The oauth API from SmartNews — 2 operation(s) for oauth.
  humanURL: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://ads.smartnews.com
  tags:
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - oauth
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smartnews-oauth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/smartnews-capability-edges.yml
  name: SmartNews Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/smartnews-marketing-overlay.yaml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/smartnews-rate-limits.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.smartnews.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/smartnews-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/smartnews-well-known.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/smartnews-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/smartnews-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/smartnews-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/smartnews-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.smartnews.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help-ads.smartnews.com/en/item-4207/
- type: Support
  url: https://help-ads.smartnews.com/en/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://ads.smartnews.com/developers/tos-en.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/smartnews
- type: SignUp
  url: https://ads.smartnews.com/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/smartnews-marketing-openapi.json
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/smartnews-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/smartnews-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/smartnews-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/smartnews-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/smartnews-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/smartnews-data-model.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/smartnews-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Packages
  url: packages/smartnews-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
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- type: Blog
  url: https://developer.smartnews.com/blog/
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  date: '2026-08-13'
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SmartNews API — frequently asked questions

Does SmartNews have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 16 APIs from SmartNews, including SmartNews Ad API, SmartNews Ad Group API and SmartNews article category API, and 13 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the SmartNews API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 15 OpenAPI specifications for SmartNews, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the SmartNews API?

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

Is the SmartNews API ready for AI agents?

SmartNews has a Kin Score of 52.7 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 31.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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