# People Inc (formerly Dotdash Meredith) > America's largest digital and print publisher, an IAC operating company, running 40+ consumer > brands including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Investopedia, Verywell, Food & Wine, > Southern Living, Real Simple, Travel + Leisure, EatingWell, Serious Eats and Entertainment Weekly. > People Inc publishes NO developer API. Its machine-readable surface is discovery metadata only: > robots.txt, XML sitemaps, a Google News sitemap, and an RFC 9116 security.txt. Editorial content > is closed to AI crawlers by both robots.txt and an edge rule that answers HTTP 402 Payment > Required with a licensing contact. > > GENERATED by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline on 2026-08-12 from this repo's artifacts and > live probes. People Inc does not publish an llms.txt of its own — /llms.txt was probed on > www.people.inc, people.com, www.allrecipes.com, www.investopedia.com, www.bhg.com and www.iac.com > and returned 403 everywhere except www.iac.com, which returns an HTML soft-200 that is not a > document. This file is API Evangelist's description of People Inc, not People Inc's own. ## Before you crawl — read this first - People Inc denies AI crawlers in robots.txt across the estate: https://people.com/robots.txt - Requests identifying as an AI crawler receive HTTP 402 Payment Required, not 403. - The 402 body reads: "Payment Required - If you wish to license content from People Inc, please contact contentlicensing@people.inc" - Content licensing: contentlicensing@people.inc - Brand terms of service: https://www.people.inc/brands-termsofservice - The robots.txt comment block asserts an EU DSM Article 4 text-and-data-mining reservation and expressly prohibits training, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, and dataset creation. - Sponsored/branded content paths (`*/presented/`, `*/integrated/`) are explicitly ALLOWED to the same AI crawlers that are otherwise denied. ## What is actually machine-readable - [robots.txt (people.com)](https://people.com/robots.txt): RFC 9309, 78 user-agent directives, 200 text/plain - [robots.txt (corporate)](https://www.people.inc/robots.txt): separate policy for www.people.inc, 200 text/plain - [Sitemap index (people.com)](https://people.com/sitemap.xml): sitemaps.org 0.9, 26 child sitemaps, 200 text/xml - [Google News sitemap (people.com)](https://people.com/google-news-sitemap.xml): 200 text/xml - [Sitemap index (Allrecipes)](https://www.allrecipes.com/sitemap.xml): 4 child sitemaps, 200 text/xml - [Sitemap (corporate)](https://www.people.inc/sitemap.xml): 34 URLs, 200 application/xml - [security.txt](https://people.com/.well-known/security.txt): RFC 9116, 200 text/plain, private HackerOne program Everything else — article pages, RSS feeds, and every /.well-known/ path other than security.txt — returns HTTP 403 to machine clients regardless of user-agent. ## What does not exist - No OpenAPI or Swagger document. Probed /openapi.json, /openapi.yaml, /swagger.json, /api-docs, /docs and /v1/openapi.json across six hosts. - No GraphQL endpoint. No api.* or developer.* subdomain resolves for people.inc or people.com. - No MCP server. No A2A agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json or /.well-known/agent.json. - No SDKs or client libraries in any package registry. GitHub org MeredithCorp holds one repo, a 2021 fork of bbc/sqs-consumer. People-INC holds none. - No status page, no SLA, no deprecation policy, no trust centre, no published certifications. ## Brands People.com, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Investopedia, Verywell (Health/Mind/Fit), Food & Wine, Real Simple, Southern Living, Travel + Leisure, Byrdie, InStyle, Brides, EatingWell, Serious Eats, Simply Recipes, The Spruce (+ Eats, + Pets), Health, Shape, Parents, Entertainment Weekly, Lifewire, Treehugger, TripSavvy, The Balance Money, Daily Paws, Martha Stewart, Liquor.com, MyRecipes. ## Commercial surfaces (all direct-sales, no self-serve) - [D/Cipher contextual advertising](https://www.people.inc/dcipher): cookieless intent targeting across the brand portfolio; sold as a B2B media buy, no developer console, no public API. - [Advertising / Specialty Marketing Solutions](https://www.people.inc/advertising) - Content licensing: contentlicensing@people.inc ## API Evangelist artifacts for this provider - [apis.yml](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/apis.yml) - [Agentic access policy](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/agentic-access/meredith-agentic-access.yml) - [Well-known probe](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/well-known/meredith-well-known.yml) - [security.txt (verbatim)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/well-known/meredith-security.txt) - [Vulnerability disclosure](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/security/meredith-vulnerability-disclosure.yml) - [Domain security](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/security/meredith-domain-security.yml) - [Conventions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/conventions/meredith-conventions.yml) - [Conformance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/conformance/meredith-conformance.yml) - [Observed error catalog](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/errors/meredith-problem-types.yml) - [Lifecycle](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/lifecycle/meredith-lifecycle.yml) - [Packages (honest zero)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/packages/meredith-packages.yml) - [Plans / pricing](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/plans/meredith-plans-pricing.yml) - [Rate limits](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/rate-limits/meredith-rate-limits.yml) - [Vocabulary](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/vocabulary/meredith-vocabulary.yml) - [JSON Schema: RSS feed](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/json-schema/rss-feed-schema.json) - [JSON Schema: sitemap](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/json-schema/sitemap-schema.json) - [JSON Schema: robots policy](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/json-schema/robots-policy-schema.json)