News monitoring
Use BBC News endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn BBC News into structured JSON — full article body and metadata from a canonical article URL, and fresh section headlines from BBC's public RSS feeds, both without scraping HTML by hand.
Get BBC News article content and section headlines as structured JSON from a canonical article URL or a public RSS section.
Endpoint families
4
Documented params
9
Examples
0
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
4
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
4
{
"platform": "BBC News",
"endpoint": "bbc-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/bbc/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get BBC News article content and section headlines as structured JSON from a canonical article URL or a public RSS section.
Use BBC News endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use BBC News endpoints to turn content aggregation into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use BBC News endpoints to turn media research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live BBC News endpoint catalog — 4 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 4 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
4 documented BBC News endpoints, grouped into 4 request families — Article, Headlines and Live, plus 1 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those BBC News endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
4 of the 4 BBC News endpoints carry a documented response schema, so the JSON shape is known before you write any parsing code.
BBC News endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
4 hosted MCP tools back the BBC News endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/bbc/article
/bbc/headlines
/bbc/live
/bbc/search
Endpoint catalog
/bbc/articleReturns a BBC News article's public metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Live pages are not supported.
MCP tool bbc_article
/bbc/headlinesReturns fresh headlines from a public BBC News RSS section. section defaults to world.
MCP tool bbc_headlines
/bbc/liveReturns the current server-rendered text updates from one canonical BBC News live URL. It does not subscribe to updates or return broadcast, player, or stream data.
MCP tool bbc_live
/bbc/searchReturns a bounded page of public BBC search-result metadata. Media entries link only to their BBC landing pages; streams, downloads, and transcripts are not returned.
MCP tool bbc_search
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How to scrape BBC News
Crawlora's BBC endpoints read BBC's own public article pages and RSS feeds and return normalized JSON — no HTML parsing or RSS client to maintain.
Pass a canonical bbc.com or bbc.co.uk News article URL to /bbc/article for its headline, metadata, and body paragraphs. Live pages that update in place are not supported — use a stable article URL.
Call /bbc/headlines with a section (defaults to world) to get the current headline stream for that BBC News RSS section — title, link, and publish time per story.
FAQ
Send a BBC News article URL to /bbc/article for full article content, or a section name to /bbc/headlines for the current headline feed — both return structured JSON, no RSS parser or HTML scraper needed.
Yes — re-run /bbc/headlines for a section on a schedule and diff the returned story list against your last run to detect new headlines as they publish.
Collecting publicly accessible article and headline data is generally permissible if you respect BBC's terms of use, robots directives, rate limits, and applicable law. This is for public data you are authorized to collect.