Yahoo News Article API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/yahoo-news/article

Auth

apiKey

Credits

2 credits/request

Platform

Yahoo News

Response schema

#/definitions/yahoonews.articleResponseDoc

Overview

Returns a single Yahoo News article's full content: headline, description, author, publish/update time, section, image, keywords, original publisher, and body paragraphs. Accepts a canonical yahoo.com/news article URL, such as one returned by the home or category story streams. 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

- `id` is the article's internal id, usable as `content_id` on `/yahoo-news/comments` to fetch this article's comments. It is omitted when the id could not be extracted (very rare; treat it as best-effort). - `provider`/`provider_url` identify the original publisher (e.g. "The Guardian", "AFP") when the story is syndicated content Yahoo hosts; Yahoo News itself is the provider for original Yahoo News content. - `paragraphs` is the article's body text as a list of plain-text paragraphs, in order. Empty paragraphs are dropped. - A nonexistent article URL returns `404`. A blocked, CAPTCHA-served, or structurally different response (missing both the article metadata and body) returns `503`. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "id": "1bfd4c19-ae78-369c-a4cb-8489000ca9d7", "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/hegseth-criticized-locking-democrats-closed-150610567.html", "title": "Hegseth criticized for locking Democrats out of closed-door defense budget talks", "description": "Republican lawmakers express concern after US defense secretary repeatedly excluded Democrats from briefings", "author": "Joseph Gedeon in Washington", "published_at": "2026-08-13T15:06:10Z", "updated_at": "2026-08-13T15:06:10Z", "category": "Politics", "image_url": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/.../resizefill_w1200.../https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2F...", "keywords": ["Pete Hegseth", "the Pentagon", "Democrats", "Capitol Hill"], "provider": "The Guardian", "provider_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/international", "paragraphs": [ "Republican senators have criticized the Pentagon for locking Democrats out of classified briefings on defense spending, warning that Pete Hegseth's approach could jeopardize passage of Donald Trump's record $1.5tn military budget increase.", "The US defense secretary has made at least two trips to Capitol Hill in recent weeks to pitch the budget, but has repeatedly excluded Democrats from the closed-door sessions, according to lawmakers from both parties." ] } } ```

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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