The Points Guy API
No public API. The Points Guy is a media and affiliate business with no developer portal, OAuth program, webhooks, or SDK. Its app links loyalty accounts by credential-based scraping of partner sites rather than sanctioned integrations, and CardMatch exposes no programmatic surface.
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The Points Guy scores A on the API Report Card. No public API. The Points Guy is a media and affiliate business with no developer portal, OAuth program, webhooks, or SDK. Its app links loyalty accounts by credential-based scraping of partner sites rather than sanctioned integrations, and CardMatch exposes no programmatic surface.
The Points Guy has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
The Points Guy (TPG) is a U.S. consumer travel-rewards media brand founded in 2010 by Brian Kelly and acquired as part of Bankrate by Red Ventures in 2017 for $1.24B.
Consumer travel rewards / credit-card affiliate media, with a secondary consumer loyalty-points aggregator app. Consumers land on thepointsguy.com via Google search for queries like 'best travel credit card,' 'Amex Platinum review,' or 'how many points for business class to Tokyo,' read editorial or comparison content, and click affiliate links into card application flows.
Very high brand awareness inside the U.S. points-and-miles consumer niche; one of the top two or three sites (alongside NerdWallet, Bankrate, and The Wirecutter for cards) that issuers point to for top-of-funnel acquisition.
For a business, almost none, TPG is a consumer affiliate publisher, not a system of record for any organization's operations.
Founded 2010 as a personal blog; institutionalized via Bankrate acquisition (Red Ventures bought Bankrate 2017 for $1.24B).
No published developer portal, no REST/GraphQL/webhook docs, no OAuth program, TPG has no programmatic surface for businesses or third-party developers to integrate against. The TPG app's account-linking is credential-based scraping of partner sites rather than sanctioned API integration, which American Airlines argued in 2022 violates its AAdvantage terms of service and exposes consumers to credential-storage risk. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include NerdWallet, Bankrate (sibling under Red Ventures), CreditCards.com (sibling under Red Ventures), The Wirecutter (NYT), Upgraded Points, One Mile at a Time. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.