Vox Media

Vox Media is a modern media company whose networks include The Verge, Vox, New York Magazine, SB Nation, Eater, Polygon, The Cut, and Vulture. Its developer-facing surface centers on Coral (Coral by Vox Media), the open-source commenting and community-moderation platform used by more than 500 newsrooms in 28 countries, which exposes a GraphQL API, HMAC-signed webhooks, an embeddable comment stream, and the coral-cli developer tool.

Vox Media publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Media, Publishing, and News.

The Vox Media catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Vox Media’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, CLI, and 18 more developer resources.

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37.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs
CompanyConsumerMediaPublishingNewsCommentsCommunityModerationGraphQL

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 37.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 5.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 1

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

Coral GraphQL API

Coral by Vox Media is an open-source commenting platform. Each self-hosted or managed Coral instance exposes a GraphQL API at /api/graphql covering stories, comments, users, sit...

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Vox Media Coral Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

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

Vox Media Authentication

http-bearer/jwt-sso · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Vox Media Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Vox Media Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conventions
Conventions
 Components
Components
 DataModel
DataModel
 Webhooks
Webhooks

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages
 CLI
CLI

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security
Security
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: vox-media
name: Vox Media
description: Vox Media is a modern media company whose networks include The Verge, Vox, New York Magazine, SB Nation, Eater,
  Polygon, The Cut, and Vulture. Its developer-facing surface centers on Coral (Coral by Vox Media), the open-source commenting
  and community-moderation platform used by more than 500 newsrooms in 28 countries, which exposes a GraphQL API, HMAC-signed
  webhooks, an embeddable comment stream, and the coral-cli developer tool.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vox-media/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vox-media.png
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Media
- Publishing
- News
- Comments
- Community
- Moderation
- GraphQL
apis:
- name: Coral GraphQL API
  description: Coral by Vox Media is an open-source commenting platform. Each self-hosted or managed Coral instance exposes
    a GraphQL API at /api/graphql covering stories, comments, users, sites, moderation queues, webhooks, and tokens. Direct
    API integration is limited to administrative users authenticating with a Bearer access token created via coral-cli.
  humanURL: https://docs.coralproject.net/api/schema
  baseURL: https://{coral_domain}/api/graphql
  tags:
  - Comments
  - Community
  - Moderation
  - GraphQL
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.coralproject.net/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.coralproject.net/api/schema
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/vox-media-coral-schema.graphql
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/vox-media-coral-webhooks.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Security
  url: https://www.voxmedia.com/security/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/vox-media-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vox-media-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.voxmedia.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.coralproject.net/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.coralproject.net/api/schema
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.coralproject.net/
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.coralproject.net/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://coralproject.net/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/voxmedia
- type: Pricing
  url: https://coralproject.net/pricing/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.voxmedia.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.voxmedia.com/terms-of-use/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/vox-media-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/vox-media-cli.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/vox-media-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/vox-media-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/vox-media-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/vox-media-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/vox-media-changelog.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/vox-media-conventions.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/vox-media-components.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/vox-media-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/vox-media-sandbox.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/vox-media-coral-webhooks.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1