Reuters API endpoint
Returns one normal Reuters article's public metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Live blogs, video and podcast pages, and subscriber-only or bot-challenged responses are not supported.
/reuters/articleQuery parameter: required url, a canonical Reuters article URL (e.g. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/example-2026-09-18/). Query strings and fragments are stripped; the URL is canonicalized to https://www.reuters.com.
Returns one normal Reuters article's public metadata — title, description, published_at, updated_at, authors, image_url, image_caption — plus its body paragraphs in order.
Behavior:
404.503; the parser never returns an empty body as success.503.| Field | In the sample | Value in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| url | Has a value | reuters.com |
| title | Has a value | 50 characters |
| description | Has a value | 247 characters |
| published_at | Has a value | 2026-09-18 |
| updated_at | Has a value | 2026-09-19 |
| authors | Has a value | 4 entries |
| image_url | Has a value | reuters.com |
| image_caption | Has a value | 66 characters |
| paragraphs | Has a value | 15 entries |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Reuters article URL | https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-denmark-close-greenland-deal-sources-say-2026-09-18/ | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/reuters/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Fchina%2Fus-denmark-close-greenland-deal-sources-say-2026-09-18%2F" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/china/example-2026-09-18/",
"title": "Example headline",
"published_at": "2026-09-18T21:13:25.326Z",
"updated_at": "2026-09-19T01:04:24.449Z",
"authors": [
"Gram Slattery",
"Erin Banco"
],
"paragraphs": [
"WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - First paragraph.",
"Second paragraph."
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/reuters.articleResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | reuters.ArticleResponse | No | ||||
| data.authors | array | No | ||||
| data.description | string | No | ||||
| data.image_caption | string | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.paragraphs | array | No | ||||
| data.published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.title | string | No | ||||
| data.updated_at | string | No | ||||
| data.url | string | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/reuters/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Fchina%2Fus-denmark-close-greenland-deal-sources-say-2026-09-18%2F" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"