Associated Press Content API

Name: Associated Press Content API API
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For Agents

Search and stream Associated Press wire content via 3 endpoints: GET /media/v/content/search, /media/v/content/{id}, and /media/v/content/feed.

Quickstart

Get started with Associated Press Content API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"search Associated Press wire for stories about a topic"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Associated Press Content API API.

Search the AP wire by keyword, date range, and media type via GET /media/v/content/search

Retrieve a single AP item (article, image, video, or graphic) by id via GET /media/v/content/{id}

Stream fresh wire content as it is published via GET /media/v/content/feed

Authenticate every call with the apikey query parameter issued from the AP Developer portal

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Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Associated Press Content API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for the Associated Press Content API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The AP Content API gives licensed customers programmatic access to AP's wire of news articles, photos, video, and graphics. The three endpoints cover keyword and filter search, item detail retrieval, and a feed for delivery of fresh content as it is published. Authentication is an apikey query parameter issued by the AP Developer portal at developer.ap.org and tied to a content licence.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Associated Press Content API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Newsroom AP wire ingestion

Newsrooms with AP licences can ingest the wire by polling GET /media/v/content/feed or subscribing through it for fresh items, then pulling full content with /media/v/content/{id}. Search via /media/v/content/search supports back-catalog queries by keyword, date, or media type. This is the canonical way to wire AP content into a CMS or editorial workflow without scraping.

GET /media/v/content/feed?q=type:text and apikey={key} every minute, then for each new item GET /media/v/content/{id} to load the full body into the CMS.

Editorial research and back-catalog search

Reporters can search AP's archive through GET /media/v/content/search with query strings like q=federal+reserve and date filters. The endpoint returns items with id, headline, and metadata; full body and media binaries come from /media/v/content/{id}. This supports research, story prep, and fact-checking against the AP corpus.

GET /media/v/content/search?q=federal+reserve&apikey={key} sorted by date, then load the top 5 article bodies via /media/v/content/{id}.

Agent-driven news monitoring

An AI monitoring agent can watch AP for breaking coverage of a topic and alert internal teams. The agent calls /media/v/content/search at intervals or subscribes to /media/v/content/feed via Jentic, with the AP apikey vaulted server-side. When relevant items appear, the agent fetches them by id and posts a summary to a chat tool.

Through Jentic, search 'monitor AP for new stories about a topic', load the /media/v/content/search operation, and execute with q={topic} and a date filter for the last hour.

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for the associated press content api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/media/v/content/search

Search AP content by keyword, date, and media type

GET

/media/v/content/{id}

Retrieve a single AP item by id

GET

/media/v/content/feed

Fetch the live feed of new AP items

GET

/media/v/content/search

Search AP content by keyword, date, and media type

GET

/media/v/content/{id}

Retrieve a single AP item by id

GET

/media/v/content/feed

Fetch the live feed of new AP items

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your AP apikey is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents call operations through scoped Jentic tokens and the apikey query parameter is appended at execution, so the raw key never enters the agent's context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'search AP for stories about a topic') and Jentic returns the matching AP Content operations with their query parameter shapes resolved.

Time to first call

Direct AP integration takes a day or two to wire feed polling, item retrieval, and back-off behaviour. Through Jentic the same operations are executable in minutes.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

NewsAPI.org

Aggregated news search across many publishers.

Choose NewsAPI when you need cross-publisher coverage and a low-friction key, accepting that AP-licensed content is not exposed in full.

Alternative

GNews

Multi-language news search and headlines API.

Choose GNews for broad multilingual coverage when AP licensing is not a requirement.

Complementary

NYT Article Search

Searchable archive of New York Times articles.

Pair with AP for editorial research that benefits from both wire coverage and NYT's archive.

FAQs

Specific to using Associated Press Content API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for the AP Content API?

The Associated Press publishes documentation at developer.ap.org but does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call the AP Content API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the AP Content API use?

The AP Content API expects an apikey query parameter on every request, issued from the AP Developer portal at developer.ap.org and tied to a content licence. Through Jentic the apikey is held in the vault and added to the request URL server-side, so the raw key never reaches the agent.

Do I need an AP content licence to use this API?

Yes. The AP Content API is gated by AP's content licensing — anonymous keys do not return real wire content. Contact AP through developer.ap.org to provision a key tied to your licence before using these endpoints in production.

What are the rate limits for the AP Content API?

Rate limits are not declared in the spec; AP applies per-key throughput limits negotiated with the licence. Treat HTTP 429 as a signal to back off and follow the cadence AP specifies for /media/v/content/feed polling, typically once per minute or via the streaming variant.

How do I retrieve a specific AP article through Jentic?

Through Jentic, search 'get an Associated Press article by id', load the /media/v/content/{id} operation, and execute with the AP item id. Jentic injects the apikey from the vault and returns the article body and metadata.

Can I filter the AP feed to only photos or only video?

Yes. /media/v/content/search and /media/v/content/feed accept query parameters that constrain the returned media type, so you can pull just text articles, photos, video, or graphics depending on your downstream pipeline. Refer to AP's parameter conventions for the exact filter values.