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 of every page as . The core content namespaces read anonymously — posts (822,047 of them per the X-WP-Total header), pages, media, search, the vice_section / profile / sp_product custom post types, and the category, tag, byline, brand and platform-language taxonomies. Users, settings, block types and every editorial plugin namespace return HTTP 401.
VICE WordPress REST API is one of 3 APIs that Vice Media publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Content, Publishing, WordPress, and oEmbed. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 379 operations across 178 paths, organized into 4 resource areas, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version wp/v2.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://www.vice.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
VICE WordPress REST API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (applicationPassword).
An API key is passed in the header as X-WP-Nonce (wpNonce).
applicationPassword— WordPress Application Passwords (HTTP Basic). The live discovery document declares this as the site's authentication method, with the authorization endpoint at…wpNonce— WordPress cookie-authentication nonce. Advertised by the live server in its Access-Control-Allow-Headers response header (Authorization, X-WP-Nonce, Content-Di…
Paths & Operations 379
Across 178 paths, the API surfaces 379 operations — 48 DELETE, 169 GET, 36 PATCH, 90 POST, 36 PUT. They span 4 resource areas: root, oembed/1.0, wp-abilities/v1, wp/v2. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
REST API index / namespace and route discovery.
oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoints — discovery and proxy for embeddable representations of VICE articles and videos.
WordPress Abilities API — the registry of named abilities an agent can discover and run. Read and run are capability-gated (observed HTTP 401 anonymously).
WordPress core content API — posts, pages, media, custom post types (sections, profiles, products), taxonomies (categories, tags, bylines, brands, platform languages), search, typ…
Schemas 1
The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is WPError (3 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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