# Vice Media

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vice-media/  
**Website:** https://www.vice.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 33.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-09-04 under rubric 0.18.3.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 12.9 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 76.3 |
| Access Clarity | 76.3 |

## Agent readiness — 24.6 (agent-aware)

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

## APIs (3)

- **VICE WordPress REST API** — The live WordPress REST API served by vice.com. 601 routes are declared by the route-discovery document at https://www.vice.com/wp-json/, which the site advertises in the head o...
- **VICE Video WordPress REST API** — A second WordPress install answering on video.vice.com with 586 declared routes and the same core content namespaces, advertised the same way in the page head. Its public archiv...
- **VICE Platform API** — 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....

## Security (3)

- **Vice Media Authentication** — http/apiKey/opaque-client-credential · 3 schemes
- **Vice Media Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Vice Media Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Vice Media Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Media, Publishing, News, Digital Media, Content, Video, Entertainment, WordPress, Syndication, oEmbed, Brooklyn

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