Reuters Items API
Retrieve content items from specific channels. Items represent individual pieces of editorial content such as news stories, images, video clips, or graphics.
Reuters Items 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 Items. 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 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 7 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.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Reuters Items 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 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Retrieve content items from specific channels. Items represent individual pieces of editorial content such as news stories, images, video clips, or graphics.
Schemas 7
The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ItemResponse (17 properties), ItemSummary (9 properties), Rendition (6 properties), Association (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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