Overview
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AP Media API
AP Media API allows you to access all your licensed multimedia content programmatically in one place. You can receive a continuous feed of news content or perform granular searches across archives of all media types.
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Content available via AP Media API
Media types include text/story with linked curated content, pictures, graphics, video and audio.
Accessing content programmatically via the API?
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30 days of content is available, as well as the full library of current and archive picture, video, audio and graphics content.
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AP Media API supports the same content as AP Newsroom, depending on your contract terms.
Using AP Media Agent?
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Up to the last 72 hours of content is available.
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Please refer to contract information for details and contact your AP Sales or Licensing representative with any questions. |
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NoteAP Media Agent and configuration dashboard
AP Media Agent and configuration dashboard allow you to automatically download a continuous feed of news content available through AP Media API.
AP Media Agent is a Java application for content ingestion. The configuration dashboard is the AP Newsroom module for configuring and managing content ingest agents as well as AP Media API activity monitoring and notifications.
You can download content for your entitlements; for example, products, packages and AP Newsroom saved searches. Content files and metadata are saved to specified folders watched by your content management system (CMS).
The agent has access to content from up to the last 72 hours.
AP Newsroom
The all-new, reimagined AP Newsroom (newsroom.ap.org) is a single platform that lets you explore, discover and curate from AP’s vast collection of text, photo, video and audio assets—spanning from 1895 to today. Whether you're tracking real-time breaking news, diving into the historical archive or conducting in-depth research, AP Newsroom simplifies every step.
AI-powered search, a personalized homepage and seamless workflow integration ensure you find the right content faster, stay ahead of the news and create impactful stories with ease. Access award-winning, high-quality journalism from the most trusted source of fast, accurate and unbiased news—all in one place. For more information, see What's new in AP Newsroom.
In AP Newsroom, you can create saved searches for your favorite subjects and then get content feeds for these saved searches via AP Media API or AP Media Agent.
You can also select one or more On-Demand content items of interest in AP Newsroom and have the content automatically delivered to you via AP Media API or AP Media Agent.
Entitlements
Entitlements are AP products and packages to which your organization is entitled, saved searches created in AP Newsroom and On-Demand content items selected in AP Newsroom.
Products
A product is a standard AP news service or report, which is defined by a name, a product ID number and a description; for example, "AP Online National News."
Packages
A package is a bundle of products.
Saved searches
In AP Newsroom (newsroom.ap.org), saved searches (formerly "personal followed topics") are custom search topics that you create to track specific keywords that may not be covered by AP’s predefined topics. If you create a feed for a saved search in AP Newsroom and then ingest the feed using AP Media Agent or AP Media API, any new content matching the search criteria will automatically be sent to your CMS. Learn more >>
On-Demand content
On-Demand allows you to select either an individual story (and, if any, its linked media) or an individual media item in AP Newsroom and have the items automatically delivered via AP Media API or AP Media Agent. Learn more >>