# Vice Media

> Vice Media is the Brooklyn youth-culture and news media company founded in 1994, which filed for
> Chapter 11 in May 2023 and was acquired for $350 million by a Fortress Investment Group–led
> consortium. It runs no developer programme and sells no API product. What it does serve — and
> advertises in the head of every page — is a live, anonymously readable WordPress REST API on
> vice.com carrying an editorial archive of 822,047 posts across 20 language editions, plus a
> conformant oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint and RSS 2.0 syndication.

Generated 2026-09-04 by API Evangelist from live probes of vice.com, video.vice.com, api.vice.com
and vicemedia.com. This file is not published by Vice Media; https://www.vice.com/llms.txt returns
HTTP 404.

## What is callable right now

- [VICE WordPress REST API](https://www.vice.com/wp-json/): 601 declared routes; the wp/v2 content
  namespaces read with no credential. No key, no signup, no plan, no rate-limit header.
- [oEmbed 1.0 provider](https://www.vice.com/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed): resolves a VICE permalink to
  a conformant oEmbed rich response naming VICE as the provider.
- [RSS 2.0 feed](https://www.vice.com/en/feed/): with the content, Dublin Core, Atom, slash and
  Yahoo Media RSS namespaces.
- [Sitemap index](https://www.vice.com/sitemap.xml): year-partitioned back to 1970; robots.txt
  enumerates 30 of them and disallows nothing.

## What is not

- [VICE Platform API](https://api.vice.com/): every anonymous request, including a control path that
  cannot exist, returns HTTP 401 `invalid_req_client` from a service identifying itself as
  `api-auth 1.13.2`. No contract, path list or documentation is observable without a client
  credential.
- [VICE Video WordPress REST API](https://video.vice.com/wp-json/): a second install, 586 routes,
  same shape — but its public archive returns `X-WP-Total: 1`. A live contract with nothing behind
  it.
- WordPress Abilities API (`/wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/abilities`): declared, and the closest thing to
  an agent-executable surface here, but HTTP 401 anonymously.
- `/wp/v2/users`, `/wp/v2/comments`, `/wp/v2/settings` and every editorial plugin namespace: HTTP 401.

## Specs

- [OpenAPI 3.1.0 — VICE WordPress REST](openapi/_ae-authored/vice-media-wp-rest-openapi.yml): 178
  paths, 379 operations, derived verbatim from the live route-discovery document.
- [OpenAPI 3.1.0 — VICE Video WordPress REST](openapi/_ae-authored/vice-media-video-wp-rest-openapi.yml):
  160 paths, 349 operations.
- [Route-discovery source — vice.com](openapi/vice-media-wp-rest-discovery-original.json): the
  verbatim `/wp-json/` response, HTTP 200, fetched 2026-09-04.
- [Route-discovery source — video.vice.com](openapi/vice-media-video-wp-rest-discovery-original.json)
- [Overlay](overlays/vice-media-wp-rest-overlay.yaml): API Evangelist observations, kept out of the
  contract itself.

## How to call it correctly

- [Skill — search the archive](skills/vice-media-search-the-archive.md)
- [Skill — walk editions, sections and bylines](skills/vice-media-walk-editions-and-taxonomies.md)
- [Skill — embed an article with oEmbed](skills/vice-media-embed-a-vice-article.md)
- [Conventions](conventions/vice-media-conventions.yml): pagination, sparse fields, expansion,
  error envelope, and the honest answers on idempotency (none) and reversibility.
- [Error catalog](errors/vice-media-problem-types.yml): the WordPress envelope, not RFC 9457.
- [Data model](data-model/vice-media-data-model.yml): including the VICE-specific `vice_section`,
  `profile`, `sp_product` types and the `byline`, `sp_language`, `sp_brand` taxonomies.
- [Authentication](authentication/vice-media-authentication.yml)
- [Rate limits](rate-limits/vice-media-rate-limits.yml): `limit_count: 0` — nothing published,
  nothing signalled.
- [MCP candidate](mcp/vice-media-mcp.yml): a derived sketch. No MCP server exists.

## Two things worth knowing before you build on this

1. **Authorship is a taxonomy, not a user.** `/wp/v2/users` is closed. Read `byline` terms instead.
2. **Do not walk 822,047 posts by page number.** WordPress refuses deep offsets at that size.
   Partition by year, language edition or category.

## Company

- [VICE](https://www.vice.com/)
- [About VICE Digital Publishing](https://www.vice.com/en/about-vice-digital-publishing/): vice.com
  is "owned and operated by VICE Digital Publishing, LLC a Savage Ventures company".
- [VICE Media corporate](https://www.vicemedia.com/)
- [Responsible disclosure policy](https://www.vice.com/en/vice-responsible-disclosure-policy/):
  infosec@vice.com, PGP available, explicit safe harbor, no bounty. Not served at
  /.well-known/security.txt, which 404s.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/VICEMedia): 56 public repos, no SDK, no client library.
- [Membership](https://www.vice.com/en/section/membership/): $2/mo, $20/yr, $70/yr print+digital.
  Reader subscriptions — none of them buys API access.
- [Terms of Service](https://www.vice.com/en/terms/)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.vice.com/en/privacy/)