The Local Dailies API offers access to quarter-hour and program ratings from the 56 metered Nielsen DMAs for Broadcast and Cable distributors. It also includes Live, Live+SD, Live+1, Live+3, and Live+7 Time Shifted streams. The API contains 18 months of historical data.
API Documentation
OAuth 2.0 Guide
Release Notes
Error Codes
authorization
Method
Description
Method
Description
POST
API call to retrieve access token.
REFERENCE APIs
Method
Description
Method
Description
The Data Availabilities GET API provides the data availability of Quarter Hour ratings for each DMA.
GET
The Markets GET API returns a comprehensive list of metered Designated Market Areas (DMAs), along with reference data about each DMA (e.g., ID, rank).
GET
The Stations GET API reference call returns the list of stations for which ratings exist in a particular DMA.
GET
The Programs GET API returns a program lineup for a given DMA, station, and broadcast day.
RATINGS APIs
Method
Description
Method
Description
The Quarter Hour Ratings GET API returns quarter-hour ratings for a given broadcast day, DMA, station, demographic, and data stream.
The Quarter-Hour Bulk Ratings GET API returns rating metrics for every available 'building block' demographic for a specified broadcast day market and station.
GET
The Program Ratings GET API returns telecast-level ratings for a given broadcast day, station, demographic and data stream.
The Multi-Day Average Ratings GET API returns average rating metrics over a specified data range, daypart, stream, and demographic.
REPROCESSING APIs
Method
Description
Method
Description
GET
The Program Updates GET API provides a list of changes that have been made to the API's dataset in a given time period.
GET
The Ratings Updates GET API provides a list of changes that have been made to the API's dataset in a given time period.
BATCH APIs
Method
Description
Method
Description
POST
Submit Batch Request.
GET
Batch Status Request