GET/politico/articleapiKey2 credits/request
Returns a Politico article by its canonical `url`, in the form `https://www.politico.com/news/YYYY/MM/DD/slug`. The response has the title, description, authors, publication and update times, lead image URL and the body `paragraphs`.
Required: url.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 8 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-18; url: politico.com; title: 56 characters; authors: 2 entries; description: 134 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-18; image_url: politico.com; paragraphs: 4 entries.
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GET/politico/authorapiKey2 credits/request
Returns one Politico staff author's public profile: name, job title, bio, headshot, and their most recent bylined articles. Politico staff pages expose a fixed-size recent-articles list with no pagination.
Optional: slug, url.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items. Filled in every item: title, url, published_at. In the sample: published_at: 2026-08-19 to 2026-10-09; url: politico.com.
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GET/politico/categoriesapiKey1 credit/request
Returns Politico's full public section navigation tree, grouped the same way the site's own nav menu groups it. Use a section's slug directly as the topic parameter on politico-topic.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 8 items. Filled in every item: name, sections. In the sample: name: “WASHINGTON & POLITICS” and 7 other values; sections: median 2 entries.
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GET/politico/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request
Returns the latest Politico stories across the whole site, not limited to one section. Takes no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, a short summary, publication time and author.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 40 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author. In the sample: published_at: 2025-01-19 to 2026-10-13; url: politico.com and 1 other host; title: median 71 characters; summary: median 123 characters.
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GET/politico/topicapiKey1 credit/request
Returns the newest public Politico stories on one section archive page. topic is a section slug -- see politico-categories for the full known value space.
Required: topic.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 18 items. Filled in every item: title, url, authors. In the sample: title: “Mary Peltola raises $17M in Q3 in Alaska’s Senate race” and 17 other values; url: politico.com; authors: median 1 entry.
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Politico API endpoints