Los Angeles Times API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /latimes/article

Cost

2 credits/request

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/latimes/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fenvironment%2Fstory%2F2026-09-18%2Fnewsom-rejects-roll-back-of-ceqa-exemptions-for-advanced-manufacturing" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use Los Angeles Times endpoints

The Los Angeles Times' public RSS layer covers 44 sections, from statewide news down to single-team feeds like Dodgers and Lakers, plus two Spanish-language verticals. A 2026-09-24 pull of the California section returned 93 stories in a single page. Crawlora's four LA Times endpoints turn that section directory, section headlines, full articles, and reporter byline pages into normalized JSON, with the Times' own is_accessible_for_free flag passed through on every article.

1. Step 1

   Map 43 slugs from business to world-nation

   /latimes/sections returns all 44 section slugs and their public RSS feed URLs, from california and politics down to sports/dodgers and espanol/mexico.

2. Step 2

   Read one section's headlines

   Pass a slug to /latimes/headlines for that section's current RSS items. The california section returned 93 stories in a single 2026-09-24 pull, each with a single comma-joined author string per item, such as "Kate Sequeira, Ava Hu", rather than a list.

3. Step 3

   Budget 4,500 characters per article

   /latimes/article returns an authors array (unlike headlines' single string), section, published and updated timestamps, body paragraphs, and the is_accessible_for_free value the Times declares in its own structured data.

4. Step 4

   Open a reporter's byline page

   Pass a canonical latimes.com/people/<slug> URL to /latimes/author for that reporter's bio, job title, and recent articles; two of ten recent-article entries in one 2026-09-24 test omitted the summary field.

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