Ap Associated Press Content 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.
Use for: Search the AP wire for articles about the Federal Reserve, Retrieve a specific AP article by id, Pull AP photos taken in the last 24 hours, Stream fresh AP wire items as they are published
Not supported: Does not write content, manage subscribers, or operate AP's editorial systems - use for searching, retrieving, and feeding AP wire content only.
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.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Associated Press Content API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Associated Press Content API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fdeveloper.ap.org%2Fassociated-press" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fdeveloper.ap.org%2Fassociated-press" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Associated Press Content 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
Filter results by media type to limit responses to articles, photos, or video as needed
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Associated Press Content 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 Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring the Associated Press Content API by hand means appending the apikey query parameter to every call and managing search, item retrieval, and feed polling yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the AP Content API from the API Directory, store the apikey once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
You choose which AP Content operations the agent may call, so you can limit it to the ones it needs, such as searching for stories and retrieving a content item, and leave feed polling out unless you add it. The API is read-only over AP wire content, so the agent cannot write or manage subscribers.
Credential isolation
Your AP apikey is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'search AP for stories about a topic', and Jentic returns the matching AP Content operation with its query parameter schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Associated Press Content 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 with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.
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.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the AP Content API?
Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which AP Content operations the agent may call and which credential it uses. You can allow only what the task needs, such as searching the wire (GET /media/v/content/search) and retrieving a single item (GET /media/v/content/{id}), and leave feed polling (GET /media/v/content/feed) out unless you add it. The API is read-only over AP wire content, so a scoped agent can search and read but cannot write content or manage subscribers.
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