Feeds and Linked Content
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About Feeds
A news feed is a list of content items (such as text stories, pictures, graphics, audio and video) that contains:
AP metadata that describes the content item. To learn more, see Content Metadata Fields.
Renditions: Links to the actual content files; for example, news stories in the NITF format or JPEG pictures of different sizes (high-resolution, preview and thumbnail). To learn more, see Content File Formats and Renditions.
Associations: Links to associated items:
For text stories, references to linked media (for example, pictures and video linked to a story) if available. To learn more, see Linked Media.
For AP Top Headlines, links to individual AP Top Headline stories included in the AP Top Headlines collection. To learn more, see AP Top Headlines.
AP Media API feeds are delivered in the JSON format.
Feed Structure Example
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This example illustrates the structure of JSON metadata files downloaded by your agent. Post-processing JSON feed files is useful if you want to take advantage of the AP content metadata. Learn more >> |
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TipIn this example, only two feed items (a text story and a picture) and one linked picture are shown for brevity. To learn about the AP Top Headlines structure, see AP Top Headlines.
JSON Examples
Feed Items
This JSON example shows two feed items:
A text story item with a reference to the linked picture item in associations and a link to the NITF story download in renditions.
A picture item with links to the JPEG images of different sizes (high-resolution, preview and thumbnail) and the picture caption in renditions.
// Example:
{
"item": {
"uri": "https://api.ap.org/media/v/content/c116ac3656f240238ee7529720e4a4b8",
"altids": {
"itemid": "c116ac3656f240238ee7529720e4a4b8"...},
"version": 8,
"type": "text",
...
"headline": "Damaging hail and tornadoes threatened for southeast US",
...
"associations": {
"1": {
"uri": "https://api.ap.org/media/v/content/0726a2a7a06b48d0af1e41bf04fe8f80",
"altids": {
"itemid": "0726a2a7a06b48d0af1e41bf04fe8f80"...}, ...
"type": "picture",
"headline": "Southern Storms"}},
"renditions": {
"nitf": {
"title": "NITF Story Download",
"rel": "Story",
"format": "IIM",
"type": "text",
...
"href": "https://api.ap.org/media/v/content/c116ac3656f240238ee7529720e4a4b8/download?type=text&format=NITF"}}}},
{
"item": {
"uri": "https://api.ap.org/media/v/content/22c04cbb8ae546db8d54af81ea7fd77e",
"altids": {
"itemid": "22c04cbb8ae546db8d54af81ea7fd77e"...},
"version": 0,
"type": "picture",
...
"headline": "Stormy Baltic sea",
...
"renditions": {
"main": {
"title": "Full Resolution (JPG)",
"rel": "Main",
"format": "JPEG Baseline",
"type": "picture",
...
"href": "https://api.ap.org/media/v/content/22c04cbb8ae546db8d54af81ea7fd77e/download?role=main",...},
"preview": {
"title": "Preview (JPG)",
"rel": "Preview",
"format": "JPEG Baseline",
"type": "picture",
...
"href": "https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v1/items/22c04cbb8ae546db8d54af81ea7fd77e/preview/preview.jpg",...},
"thumbnail": {
"title": "Thumbnail (JPG)",
"rel": "Thumbnail",
"format": "JPEG Baseline",
"type": "picture",
...
"href": "https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v1/items/22c04cbb8ae546db8d54af81ea7fd77e/thumbnail/thumbnail.jpg",...},
"caption_nitf": {
"title": "NITF Caption Download",
"rel": "Caption",
"format": "IIM",
"type": "text",
...
"href": "https://api.ap.org/media/v/content/22c04cbb8ae546db8d54af81ea7fd77e/download?type=text&format=nitf&text=caption"}}}}
Linked Picture Item
This example shows an abbreviated linked picture item that was referenced in associations in the previous example. The links to the JPEG images of different sizes (high-resolution, preview and thumbnail) and the picture caption are available in renditions.
// Example:
"item": {
"uri": "https://api.ap.org/media/v/content/0726a2a7a06b48d0af1e41bf04fe8f80",
"altids": {
"itemid": "0726a2a7a06b48d0af1e41bf04fe8f80"...},
"version": 0,
"type": "picture",
...
"headline": "Southern Storms",
...
"renditions": {
"main": {
"title": "Full Resolution (JPG)",
"rel": "Main",
"format": "JPEG Baseline",
"type": "picture",
...
"href": "https://api.ap.org/media/v/content/0726a2a7a06b48d0af1e41bf04fe8f80/download?role=main"...},
"preview": {
"title": "Preview (JPG)",
"rel": "Preview",
"format": "JPEG Baseline",
"type": "picture",
...
"href": "https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v1/items/0726a2a7a06b48d0af1e41bf04fe8f80/preview/preview.jpg"...},
"thumbnail": {
"title": "Thumbnail (JPG)",
"rel": "Thumbnail",
"format": "JPEG Baseline",
"type": "picture",
...
"href": "https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v1/items/0726a2a7a06b48d0af1e41bf04fe8f80/thumbnail/thumbnail.jpg"...},
"caption_nitf": {
"title": "NITF Caption Download",
"rel": "Caption",
"format": "IIM",
"type": "text",
...
"href": "https://api.ap.org/media/v/content/0726a2a7a06b48d0af1e41bf04fe8f80/download?type=text&format=nitf&text=caption"}}}}