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Reuters Channels API

Retrieve available content channels within your subscription. Channels are organized by category including text (TXT), images (PIX), video (VID), and graphics (GFX).

Reuters Channels API is one of 4 APIs that Reuters publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Channels. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a JSON-LD context, and 2 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://rmb.reuters.com/rmd/rest/xml, https://commerce.reuters.com/rmd/rest/xml.

1 operations 1 paths 3 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Servers
https://rmb.reuters.com/rmd/rest/xml
https://commerce.reuters.com/rmd/rest/xml
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Reuters Channels API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the query as token (tokenAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • tokenAuth — Authorization token obtained from the /login endpoint. Must be included as a query parameter in all content API requests.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Channels 1

Retrieve available content channels within your subscription. Channels are organized by category including text (TXT), images (PIX), video (VID), and graphics (GFX).

GET
/channels
List Available Content Channels
listChannels 2 params → 200401403500

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Channel (4 properties), Error (2 properties), ChannelListResponse (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ChannelListResponse
object
Response containing a list of available channels.
1 property
Channel
object
A content channel representing a curated feed of editorial content. Channels are organized by category and subscription level.
4 properties
Error
object
An error response from the Reuters Connect API.
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

reuters-channels-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Reuters publishes across the network.

Reuters Authentication API
Reuters Items API
Reuters Search API