Category: News · Auth: key · Status on 2026-10-05: SKIP
Guardian Open Platform API is a free news API that needs a free key. On 2026-10-05 00:08 UTC our sweep found it not probed (needs a key).
Full-text access to Guardian articles, sections, tags — real journalism.
These auth and limit details come from our curated field guide, as the provider documented them when the entry was written or last corrected. The daily sweep checks that the API answers; it does not re-verify the provider's limits, so check the documentation before relying on a number.
This is the exact probe the sentinel runs each sweep — one read-only GET. The result above carries the date it was measured:
curl -s '-'No response captured — status was SKIP at 2026-10-05 00:08 UTC.
Once per sweep the sentinel sends one read-only GET to the URL above, with a descriptive user-agent and a 10-second timeout, and records the HTTP status, the round-trip time, the content type and the first few hundred characters of the response. Only a timeout is re-probed, once, with a 45-second ceiling. The status measured on 2026-10-05, SKIP, means the API needs a key or OAuth the sentinel does not hold, so it is listed from the field guide but not called. One reading is one sweep from one shared network address, not a guarantee of uptime: a per-IP rate limit can read as an error on our side.
The same measurement is in the api-health.json feed, dated by its generated_at; filter results on name == "Guardian Open Platform". An MCP client can call the check_api_health tool at /mcp with {"api": "Guardian Open Platform"}; it answers from the same feed.
Checked 2026-10-05 00:08 UTC by the AI Deals Sentinel. Machine-readable: api-health.json.