Vice Media
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.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Vice Media the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts across 3 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Vice Media scores 33.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 25/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Vice Media
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Vice Media. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 3
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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....
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Vice Media Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Vice Media — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 6
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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