ZDNet

ZDNet is a business technology news website owned by Ziff Davis, covering enterprise IT, cybersecurity, cloud computing, hardware, software, and innovation for IT professionals and tech-savvy business leaders. ZDNet provides news, analysis, product reviews, and how-to guides. No public developer API is available; content is accessible via RSS feeds.

ZDNet publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including AI API, Cloud API, News API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Enterprise IT, Media, and Technology News.

The ZDNet catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

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29.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 3 Features 2 Use Cases

Enterprise IT Media Technology News

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Composite quality — 29.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 6.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 11

Contract Governance 2.4 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 22/100 · 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 7 / 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

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 Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Access Clarity scores 38.3 — up to +12.3 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 7.1 — up to +12.1 composite points Ask about this →

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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 4

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

ZDNet AI API

Artificial intelligence feeds

ZDNet Cloud API

Cloud computing feeds

ZDNet News API

General news feeds

ZDNet Security API

Security feeds

Open Collections 5

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

ZDNet RSS Feed AI API

OPEN COLLECTION

ZDNet RSS Feed AI Cloud API

OPEN COLLECTION

ZDNet RSS Feed AI News API

OPEN COLLECTION

ZDNet RSS Feed API

OPEN COLLECTION

ZDNet RSS Feed AI Security API

OPEN COLLECTION

ZDNet API pricing

Not yet checked against ZDNet's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against ZDNet's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

ZDNet Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

ZDNet Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

ZDNet

8 quoted statements, read from ZDNet's own page on 2026-11-10.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

ZDNet

22 quoted statements, read from ZDNet's own page on 2026-11-10.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

ZDNet

4 quoted statements, read from ZDNet's own page on 2026-11-10.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

ZDNet

4 quoted statements, read from ZDNet's own page on 2026-11-10.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

ZDNet

1 quoted statement, read from ZDNet's own page on 2026-11-10.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

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

ZDNet Finops

FINOPS

Features 3

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

RSS News Feed

Latest enterprise IT news from ZDNet.

Topic-Specific Feeds

Filtered RSS feeds for security, cloud, AI, developer, and innovation topics.

RSS 2.0 Format

Standard XML RSS 2.0 format for syndication.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Zdnet Rss Context

3 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

ZDNet — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

ZDNet API Rules

18 rules · 5 error-severity 13 warn-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

RssFeed

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RssItem

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Rss Rss Feed Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Rss Rss Item Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Rss Rss Feed Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Rss Rss Item Example

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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

ZDNet Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

ZDNet Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 2

What developers build with this provider.

News Aggregation

Aggregate ZDNet articles into a news app or dashboard.

Topic Monitoring

Monitor specific topic feeds (security, cloud, AI) for industry tracking.

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

EditorialGuidelines

EditorialGuidelines

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Newsletter

Newsletter

LinkedIn

Facebook

Facebook

Other 11

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

RSS

RSS

RSS

RSS

RSS

Team

Advertising

Podcast

DataProcessing

Eligibility

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: zdnet
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: zdnet:zdnet-ai-api
  name: ZDNet AI API
  description: Artificial intelligence feeds
  humanURL: https://www.zdnet.com/news/rss.xml
  tags:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  tags_raw:
  - AI
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zdnet-ai-api-openapi.yml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/news/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/security/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/cloud/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/artificial-intelligence/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/developer/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/innovation/rss.xml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-schema/
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-structure/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-ld/zdnet-rss-context.jsonld
  - type: Examples
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/examples/
- aid: zdnet:zdnet-cloud-api
  name: ZDNet Cloud API
  description: Cloud computing feeds
  humanURL: https://www.zdnet.com/news/rss.xml
  tags:
  - Cloud
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zdnet-cloud-api-openapi.yml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/news/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/security/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/cloud/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/artificial-intelligence/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/developer/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/innovation/rss.xml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-schema/
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-structure/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-ld/zdnet-rss-context.jsonld
  - type: Examples
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/examples/
- aid: zdnet:zdnet-news-api
  name: ZDNet News API
  description: General news feeds
  humanURL: https://www.zdnet.com/news/rss.xml
  tags:
  - News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zdnet-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/news/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/security/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/cloud/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/artificial-intelligence/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/developer/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/innovation/rss.xml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-schema/
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-structure/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-ld/zdnet-rss-context.jsonld
  - type: Examples
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/examples/
- aid: zdnet:zdnet-security-api
  name: ZDNet Security API
  description: Security feeds
  humanURL: https://www.zdnet.com/news/rss.xml
  tags:
  - Security
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zdnet-security-api-openapi.yml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/news/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/security/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/cloud/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/artificial-intelligence/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/developer/rss.xml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/innovation/rss.xml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-schema/
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-structure/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/json-ld/zdnet-rss-context.jsonld
  - type: Examples
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/examples/
name: ZDNet
description: ZDNet is a business technology news website owned by Ziff Davis, covering enterprise IT, cybersecurity, cloud
  computing, hardware, software, and innovation for IT professionals and tech-savvy business leaders. ZDNet provides news,
  analysis, product reviews, and how-to guides. No public developer API is available; content is accessible via RSS feeds.
tags:
- Enterprise IT
- Media
- Technology News
type: Index
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: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zdnet.png
access: 3rd-Party
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/zdnet-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/zdnet-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/zdnet-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/zdnet-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zdnet-domain-security.yml
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/
  name: ZDNet Website
  type: Website
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/about-zdnet/
  name: About ZDNet
  type: About
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/news/rss.xml
  name: News RSS Feed
  type: RSS
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/security/rss.xml
  name: Security RSS Feed
  type: RSS
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/cloud/rss.xml
  name: Cloud RSS Feed
  type: RSS
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/artificial-intelligence/rss.xml
  name: AI RSS Feed
  type: RSS
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/topic/developer/rss.xml
  name: Developer RSS Feed
  type: RSS
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/newsletters/
  name: Newsletters
  type: Newsletter
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/meet-the-team/
  name: Editorial Team
  type: Team
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/advertise/
  name: Advertise
  type: Advertising
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/article/zdnet-editorial-guidelines/
  name: Editorial Guidelines
  type: EditorialGuidelines
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/privacy-policy/
  name: Privacy Policy
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://www.zdnet.com/terms-of-use/
  name: Terms of Use
  type: TermsOfService
- url: https://x.com/ZDNet
  name: X (Twitter)
  type: X
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zdnet-com
  name: LinkedIn
  type: LinkedIn
- url: https://www.facebook.com/ZDNet
  name: Facebook
  type: Facebook
- url: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/zdnet-video/id271364310
  name: ZDNet Video Podcast on Apple Podcasts
  type: Podcast
- url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/rules/zdnet-rules.yml
  name: ZDNet Spectral Ruleset
  type: SpectralRules
- url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zdnet/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/zdnet-vocabulary.yml
  name: ZDNet Vocabulary
  type: Vocabulary
- data:
  - name: RSS News Feed
    description: Latest enterprise IT news from ZDNet.
  - name: Topic-Specific Feeds
    description: Filtered RSS feeds for security, cloud, AI, developer, and innovation topics.
  - name: RSS 2.0 Format
    description: Standard XML RSS 2.0 format for syndication.
  name: Features
  type: Features
- data:
  - name: News Aggregation
    description: Aggregate ZDNet articles into a news app or dashboard.
  - name: Topic Monitoring
    description: Monitor specific topic feeds (security, cloud, AI) for industry tracking.
  name: UseCases
  type: UseCases
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/zdnet-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/zdnet-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/zdnet-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/zdnet-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/zdnet-data-license.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

ZDNet API — frequently asked questions

Does ZDNet have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from ZDNet, including ZDNet AI API, ZDNet Cloud API and ZDNet News API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the ZDNet API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for ZDNet, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the ZDNet API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for ZDNet, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the ZDNet API ready for AI agents?

ZDNet has a Kin Score of 29.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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