Yahoo Life Article API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/yahoo-life/article

Auth

apiKey

Credits

2 credits/request

Platform

Yahoo Life

Response schema

#/definitions/yahoolife.articleResponseDoc

Overview

Returns a single Yahoo Life article's full content: title, description, author, publish/update time, section, image, keywords, original publisher, and body paragraphs. Accepts a canonical www.yahoo.com/lifestyle article URL, such as one returned by the home story stream. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.

Authentication

Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.

Billing

Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.

Credit cost

2 credits/request

Charged response

Successful 2xx responses

Infrastructure behavior

This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.

• Proxy strategy: managed automatically where needed
• Browser rendering: enabled for supported targets that require rendered HTML or JavaScript execution
• Browser cluster: supported dynamic workloads can be routed through distributed browser instances
• Retry behavior: automatic retry/fallback may be used depending on endpoint type
• Challenge handling: challenged pages or unusable upstream HTML are detected and surfaced clearly when they cannot be used
• Billing: credits are charged only for successful 2xx responses
• Observability: responses include request context where available

Browser cluster behavior

Some targets require real browser execution because the data is loaded through JavaScript, dynamic rendering, or interaction-like browser behavior.

For supported endpoints, Crawlora can route requests through a managed browser cluster. This allows Crawlora to execute JavaScript, load dynamic content, apply browser-level request behavior, and normalize the rendered result into JSON.

You do not need to operate your own Playwright, Puppeteer, Chrome, proxy, queue, or retry infrastructure.

Response behavior

- `provider` is the original outlet the story is syndicated from when applicable, otherwise `"Yahoo Life"`. - `paragraphs` can be an empty array for an article whose metadata loaded but whose body content did not render -- this is returned as a normal `200`, not an error. A response missing *both* metadata and body paragraphs is treated as an upstream error (parser drift or a block), not a silent empty success. - A `url` that isn't a `www.yahoo.com` URL under `/lifestyle/` returns `400`. `www.yahoo.com` hosts several unrelated verticals (news, finance, sports, ...), so both the hostname and the `/lifestyle/` path prefix are required. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/article/water-bottles-bag-charms-and-analog-everything-100-back-to-school-trends-kids-actually-care-about-in-2026-133000932.html", "title": "Water bottles, bag charms and analog everything: 100 back-to-school trends kids actually care about in 2026", "description": "Going back to school used to be simple: buy the stuff on the list.", "author": "Erin Donnelly", "published_at": "2026-08-11T13:30:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-08-11T13:30:00Z", "section": "Yahoo Lifestyle", "image_url": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/example/bts-hub-header.png", "keywords": ["college students", "school supplies", "water bottle"], "provider": "Yahoo Life", "paragraphs": [ "Tiny humans, huge shopping list. The littlest schoolers are messy, filled to the brim with emotions." ] } } ```

Error behavior

Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.

When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.

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