Vice Media is the Brooklyn, New York youth-culture and news media company founded in 1994 in Montreal by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith and Gavin McInnes, which grew from the VICE magazine into a global multi-platform publisher, film and television studio and creative agency before filing for Chapter 11 in May 2023 and being acquired for $350 million by a consortium led by Fortress Investment Group. It operates today through Vice Studios Group, Vice TV, the Virtue creative agency and Vice Digital. Vice Media runs no developer programme, publishes no API documentation, portal, SDK or pricing, and sells no API product. It is catalogued here because its flagship editorial property, vice.com — owned and operated under the VICE brand by VICE Digital Publishing, LLC, the Savage Ventures joint venture Vice Media announced in 2024 — serves a live, anonymously readable WordPress REST API of 601 routes that the site advertises in the head of every page, exposing an editorial archive of 822,047 posts across 20 language editions, plus an oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint and RSS 2.0 syndication. A second WordPress install answers on video.vice.com, and a separate authenticated platform gateway on api.vice.com answers every anonymous request with HTTP 401.
Vice Media publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Media, Publishing, News, and Digital Media.
Vice Media’s developer surface includes engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, authentication, and 27 more developer resources.
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An authenticated platform gateway on api.vice.com, running nginx in front of an Express service that identifies itself as "api-auth 1.13.2" in the x-app-version response header....
The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Vice Media website at www.vice.com: the route index of the site's content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather...
aid: vice-media
name: Vice Media
description: Vice Media is the Brooklyn, New York youth-culture and news media company founded in 1994 in Montreal by Suroosh
Alvi, Shane Smith and Gavin McInnes, which grew from the VICE magazine into a global multi-platform publisher, film and
television studio and creative agency before filing for Chapter 11 in May 2023 and being acquired for $350 million by a
consortium led by Fortress Investment Group. It operates today through Vice Studios Group, Vice TV, the Virtue creative
agency and Vice Digital. Vice Media runs no developer programme, publishes no API documentation, portal, SDK or pricing,
and sells no API product. It is catalogued here because its flagship editorial property, vice.com — owned and operated under
the VICE brand by VICE Digital Publishing, LLC, the Savage Ventures joint venture Vice Media announced in 2024 — serves
a live, anonymously readable WordPress REST API of 601 routes that the site advertises in the head of every page, exposing
an editorial archive of 822,047 posts across 20 language editions, plus an oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint and RSS 2.0 syndication.
A second WordPress install answers on video.vice.com, and a separate authenticated platform gateway on api.vice.com answers
every anonymous request with HTTP 401.
image: https://www.vice.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/VICE-logo.jpeg?w=1400
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vice-media/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-09-04
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: Vice Media publishes no developer portal, API reference, SDK, API pricing or support channel. Every machine-readable
surface catalogued here is infrastructure of its publishing properties, not a commercial API product.
x-operator: The vice.com and video.vice.com WordPress surfaces are served by VICE Digital Publishing, LLC, which the site's
own About page (https://www.vice.com/en/about-vice-digital-publishing/, HTTP 200, fetched 2026-09-04) describes as "a Savage
Ventures company" at 1402 3rd Ave N, Nashville TN. They are recorded under Vice Media because vice.com is the VICE brand's
own domain and the entity is the Vice Digital Publishing joint venture Vice Media formed with Savage Ventures in 2024, in
which Vice Media retained brand control. Content licensing and pitches route to savage.ventures addresses; press (press@vice.com),
advertising (sales@vice.com) and security (infosec@vice.com) remain on vice.com.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-04'
modified: '2026-09-04'
tags:
- Company
- Media
- Publishing
- News
- Digital Media
- Content
- Video
- Entertainment
- WordPress
- Syndication
- oEmbed
- Brooklyn
apis:
- aid: vice-media:vice-media-platform-api
name: VICE Platform API
description: An authenticated platform gateway on api.vice.com, running nginx in front of an Express service that identifies
itself as "api-auth 1.13.2" in the x-app-version response header. Every path probed anonymously on 2026-09-04, including
a control path that cannot exist, returned an identical HTTP 401 {"message":"No client found attached to request","code":"invalid_req_client","status":401},
so no contract, path list or documentation is observable without a client credential. Its content-security-policy names
the legacy VICE international properties (viceland.com, viceland.nl, vicesports.nl, vicemoney.nl, vicebelgique.com) as
permitted frame ancestors.
humanURL: https://api.vice.com/
baseURL: https://api.vice.com
tags:
- Platform
- Gated
properties:
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/vice-media-authentication.yml
- aid: vice-media:vice-com-website-wordpress-rest
name: Vice Media Website (WordPress REST)
description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Vice Media website at www.vice.com: the route index of the
site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
baseURL: https://www.vice.com/wp-json
tags:
- WordPress
x-surface: platform-generated
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.vice.com/wp-json
x-platform: wordpress
x-platform-surface: rest
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/vice-media-video-wp-rest-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
url: https://www.vice.com/
- type: CorporateWebsite
url: https://www.vicemedia.com/
- type: About
url: https://www.vice.com/en/about-vice-digital-publishing/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.vice.com/en/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.vice.com/en/privacy/
- type: Security
url: https://www.vice.com/en/vice-responsible-disclosure-policy/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
url: security/vice-media-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/VICEMedia
- type: Blog
url: https://www.vice.com/en/
- type: BlogRSS
url: https://www.vice.com/en/feed/
- type: Pricing
url: https://www.vice.com/en/section/membership/
- type: SignUp
url: https://www.vice.com/en/section/membership/
- type: Accessibility
url: https://www.vice.com/en/vice-media-accessibility-statement/
- type: Newsletter
url: https://newsletter.vice.com
- type: SecondaryMarket
url: https://forgeglobal.com/vice-media_stock/
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/_ae-authored/vice-media-wp-rest-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/vice-media-wp-rest-overlay.yaml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/vice-media-llms.txt
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
url: mcp/vice-media-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/vice-media-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/vice-media-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/vice-media-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/vice-media-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/vice-media-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/vice-media-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/vice-media-packages.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/vice-media-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/vice-media-rate-limits.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/vice-media-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-09-04'
status: enriched
artifacts_added: 26
pass: local-v3
x-enrichment-notes: 'Deliberately absent, each a verified negative probed on 2026-09-04. WellKnown and SecurityTxt: every
named /.well-known path plus /apis.json and /apis.yml returned 404 on www.vice.com, video.vice.com and www.vicemedia.com
and 403 on api.vice.com, with a negative-control path returning the same, so the probe is recorded in well-known/vice-media-well-known.yml
with NO pointer. AgentCard: /.well-known/agent-card.json and /.well-known/agent.json 404 on every host, so nothing was written.
MCPServer: no server exists on any host and no mcp namespace is declared, so the derived tool list carries the X-MCPServerCandidate
pointer, never MCPServer. SDKs and a first-party CLI: nothing on npm, PyPI or any other registry, and the 56-repo VICEMedia
GitHub org publishes no client library. StatusPage: status.vice.com is NXDOMAIN and no uptime page exists anywhere. Deprecation:
no policy and no RFC 8594 Sunset or Deprecation header on any observed response. Idempotency: no replay-protection contract
exists on this surface, so no Idempotency pointer is emitted. TrustCenter and Compliance: no certification, attestation
or trust page is published. AsyncAPI and Webhooks: no event or webhook surface. Postman, Roadmap, Sandbox, Changelog, CLI,
Components, DeclineCodes, OAuthScopes, Protobuf and WSDL: none published. DeveloperPortal, Documentation, APIReference,
GettingStarted and Support: Vice Media runs no developer programme at all, so none of these pages exists to point at. The
Security pointer is the company''s published responsible-disclosure policy at https://www.vice.com/en/vice-responsible-disclosure-policy/
(HTTP 200), which is linked from the site footer but is NOT served at /.well-known/security.txt - the single cheapest fix
available to this provider. The Pricing and SignUp pointers are reader membership tiers, not API access. ContentSignal:
well-known/vice-media-robots.txt is saved as evidence but carries NO pointer - the file declares ''User-agent: * / Disallow:''
with no Content Signals policy and no AI-crawler rule, so asserting a consent signal the provider does not publish would
over-credit it.'
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