API Reference
Use Crawlora's Washington Post API endpoints to extract supported public Washington Post data as structured JSON. This documentation covers 4 active endpoints including Get a Washington Post article's content, Get the latest stories in a Washington Post section, Get the latest Washington Post stories, List Washington Post sections. 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/wapo/article" \
-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.
/wapo/articleapiKey3 credits/requestReturns one public Washington Post article's metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Metered articles that the site truncates are not available.
Required params: url:query
/wapo/headlinesapiKey2 credits/requestReturns the first page of a Washington Post section front: each story's title, canonical URL, description, section, publication time, and lead image. Section must be a path returned by /wapo/sections.
Required params: section:query
/wapo/newsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns The Washington Post's current public news-sitemap feed with titles, canonical URLs, publication times, and last-modified times.
Required params: None
/wapo/sectionsapiKey2 credits/requestLists every Washington Post section accepted by /wapo/headlines, with its path slug, display name, and landing-page URL.
Required params: None
| Endpoint | API path | Method | Credits | Required params | Docs | Playground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Get a Washington Post article's content | /wapo/article | GET | 3 credits/request | url:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get the latest stories in a Washington Post section | /wapo/headlines | GET | 2 credits/request | section:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get the latest Washington Post stories | /wapo/news | GET | 1 credit/request | None | View docs | Try endpoint |
| List Washington Post sections | /wapo/sections | GET | 2 credits/request | None | View docs | Try endpoint |