API Reference
Use Crawlora's Kotaku API endpoints to extract supported public Kotaku data as structured JSON. This documentation covers 5 active endpoints including Get Kotaku article content, Get a Kotaku author profile, Get Kotaku section headlines, Get Kotaku top stories, and related APIs. Developers can use these endpoints for monitoring, enrichment, research dashboards, internal data pipelines, and agent-native workflows without maintaining platform-specific scraping code. Each endpoint page documents authentication, request parameters such as url, section, cURL examples, response examples, response schemas, errors, credit cost, and Playground testing. Send requests to the Crawlora API with an x-api-key header, review usage and plan limits on pricing, and test safe sample requests in Playground before moving the workflow into production.
Choose an endpoint, send an authenticated request with the x-api-key header, and inspect the normalized JSON response. The examples below use the public Crawlora API base URL and the same endpoint catalog used by Playground.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/kotaku/sections" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"These endpoint cards are generated from the active Crawlora endpoint catalog, including method, path, auth mode, credit cost, parameter summary, docs, and Playground links.
/kotaku/articleapiKey2 credits/requestReturns public Kotaku article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Kotaku articles are free to read, so the full body is returned.
Required params: url:query
/kotaku/authorapiKey2 credits/requestReturns a Kotaku author's name, biography, headshot, social links, and most recent articles from a canonical author URL.
Required params: url:query
/kotaku/headlinesapiKey1 credit/requestReturns fresh headlines from one Kotaku section's public RSS feed.
Required params: section:query
/kotaku/newsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns fresh Kotaku gaming stories from its public RSS feed.
Required params: None
/kotaku/sectionsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns the Kotaku section inventory: Entertainment (with its Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, and Superhero sub-topics), Reviews, the Culture umbrella's own sub-topics (News, Retro, Kotaku Game Diary, YouTube, Odds and Ends, Feature, Fine Art), Tips & Guides, Games, and Deals, each linking to its public RSS feed. Every slug is accepted by the headlines endpoint.
Required params: None
| Endpoint | API path | Method | Credits | Required params | Docs | Playground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Get Kotaku article content | /kotaku/article | GET | 2 credits/request | url:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get a Kotaku author profile | /kotaku/author | GET | 2 credits/request | url:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get Kotaku section headlines | /kotaku/headlines | GET | 1 credit/request | section:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get Kotaku top stories | /kotaku/news | GET | 1 credit/request | None | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get Kotaku sections | /kotaku/sections | GET | 1 credit/request | None | View docs | Try endpoint |