aid: guardian
name: The Guardian
description: "The Guardian newspaper REST API providing access to 2M+ articles, news content, sections, tags, editions, and real-time breaking news from Guardian journalists worldwide. The API covers all articles published since 1999 and supports advanced search, filtering by section, tag, date range, and edition (UK, US, Australia)."
url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/
specificationVersion: '0.19'
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
x-category: "News"
x-tier: 2
tags:
  - News
  - Media
  - Content
  - Articles
  - Journalism
apis:
  - name: The Guardian Content API
    description: "Search and retrieve articles, news content, and multimedia from The Guardian's archive of 2 million+ pieces of content published since 1999. Supports keyword search, section filtering, tag filtering, date range queries, and retrieval of full article body text with metadata."
    humanURL: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/
    baseURL: https://content.guardianapis.com/
    tags:
      - News
      - Articles
      - Content
      - Search
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/access/
      - type: Plans
        url: plans/guardian-plans-pricing.yml
      - type: RateLimits
        url: rate-limits/guardian-rate-limits.yml
      - type: FinOps
        url: finops/guardian-finops.yml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/
  - type: RegistrationForm
    url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/access/
  - type: Support
    url: https://groups.google.com/g/guardian-api-talk
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open-platform.theguardian.com/legal/terms/
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com