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Some online news media have created Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to enable computer applications to request stories and information about their stories (metadata) from them.
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| American Broadcasting Company | ABC Resources API | Resources API | Resources API retrieves content produced by ABC businesses, including national and local news, entertainment videos, and more. |
| Associated Press | AP Content API |
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| BBC | BBC Platform API [ Currently available only to BBC employees ] | Platform API | "Platform API power all the BBC's product areas - iPlayer, News, Sport, Weather, Children's Knowledge and Learning - as well as many external and partner products such as Youview." [1] |
| Bloomberg News | Bloomberg API | Bloomberg API | Bloomberg API provides unrestricted access to raw data for customers for its financial market information. |
| CBS Sports | CBS Sports Development Center [No longer available] |
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| Die Zeit | ZEIT ONLINE Content API | Online Content API | Online content API provides access to articles from the ZEIT archive dating back to 1946 and from ZEIT ONLINE. Currently this API is not available as it has been discontinued by Die Zeit. |
| Dow Jones and Company | Dow Jones Factiva | Enterprise Integration API | " Share content via enterprise integration API and embeddable widgets while honoring copyright holders." |
| ESPN | ESPN API NOTE: No new authorized access granted, as of Jan. 2015 [No longer available] |
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| Financial Times | FT for Developers |
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| MSNBC | Using the msnbc.com APIs |
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| PBS | Documentation - COVE API | Cove API | Cove API provides access to full PBS episodes, clips, and promotions. |
| Reuters | Robust Foundation API | Global Newswires Services in 16 Languages. Rich with facts and context that speak to readers everywhere. | |
| The Guardian | Guardian Open Platform | Content API | Content API provides access to all the content the Guardian creates and the collections it has of that content (tags and sections). There are over one and a half million items available published as far back as 1999. |
| The New York Times | NYTimes APIs |
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| USA Today | Developer's Network |
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