Global news monitoring
Use Al Jazeera endpoints to turn global news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
Al Jazeera API
Turn Al Jazeera's public navigation tree, RSS headline feed, section archives, and article pages into normalized JSON for global and Middle East news monitoring.
Pull Al Jazeera's section navigation, site-wide headlines, section archives, and full article text as structured JSON from its public English edition.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Al Jazeera coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Categories1
Headlines1
{
"platform": "Al Jazeera",
"endpoint": "aljazeera-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/aljazeera/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit Al Jazeera
Pull Al Jazeera's section navigation, site-wide headlines, section archives, and full article text as structured JSON from its public English edition.
Middle East and international affairs research
Use Al Jazeera endpoints to turn middle east and international affairs research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Content aggregation
Use Al Jazeera endpoints to turn content aggregation into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
How Crawlora handles this platform
Every figure below is read from the live Al Jazeera endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 10 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
5 documented Al Jazeera endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Categories, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
10 request parameters are documented across those Al Jazeera endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 Al Jazeera endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Documented failure modes
Al Jazeera endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
Agent-callable MCP tools
5 hosted MCP tools back the Al Jazeera endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
Know what the API can collect before integrating
1 endpoints
Article
/aljazeera/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/aljazeera/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Categories
/aljazeera/categories
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/aljazeera/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Topic
/aljazeera/topic
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Al Jazeera API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/aljazeera/articleGet Al Jazeera article content
Returns an Al Jazeera article by `url`, a canonical dated `www.aljazeera.com` address such as `/news/2026/9/20/example-slug`: title, description, publication and update times, section, credited authors, lead image and body `paragraphs`. Live-blog URLs return their opening summary bullets as the body; a video page with no article text returns `503` and a malformed URL `400`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-20; section: “News”.
MCP tool aljazeera_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/aljazeera/authorGet an Al Jazeera author's profile and recent articles
Returns one Al Jazeera author's public profile (name, job title, bio when available) and one page of their recent articles, identified by an author slug or a canonical author URL.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 3 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-07-08 to 2026-09-22; url: aljazeera.com.
MCP tool aljazeera_author
slug:queryurl:querypage:query+1 more
GETapiKeyexample
/aljazeera/categoriesGet Al Jazeera section navigation
Lists Al Jazeera's current section navigation, each entry with a `name`, `slug` and `url`. A slug has one segment (`news`, `middle-east`) or two (`tag/human-rights`), and any returned `slug` can be passed as the `topic` parameter of `aljazeera-topic`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 23 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “News” and 22 other values; url: aljazeera.com.
MCP tool aljazeera_categories
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/aljazeera/headlinesGet Al Jazeera site-wide headlines
Returns recent Al Jazeera text-news headlines from across the site, with no input needed. Each item has a title, canonical URL, summary, publication time and the section when present. Video items are excluded because the article endpoint supports text stories only.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 18 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-13; section: News (13), Sport (3), News Analysis (2).
MCP tool aljazeera_headlines
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/aljazeera/topicGet Al Jazeera section headlines
Returns the newest public Al Jazeera stories from one section archive page. topic is a section slug; use aljazeera-categories for the current value space.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 4 fields filled in every item. title: “Imran Khan’s PTI braces to fight federal takeover of Khyber…” and 9 other values; url: aljazeera.com.
MCP tool aljazeera_topic
topic:queryx-api-key:header
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How to scrape Al Jazeera
Extract Al Jazeera data in 5 steps
Al Jazeera is Qatar's state broadcaster, funded through Qatar Media Corporation and chaired by a member of the ruling Al Thani family — worth knowing before treating its output as independent wire copy. Its section navigation isn't a flat slug list: a 2026-09-24 pull of /aljazeera/categories returned 23 entries, and several — tag/explainer, tag/human-rights, audio/podcasts — are nested paths rather than single words, passed to /aljazeera/topic exactly as returned. Crawlora's five endpoints turn that navigation, the site feed, per-section archives, articles, and author pages into normalized JSON.
- Step 1
Get the section list
Call /aljazeera/categories for the current 23-entry navigation. Most slugs are single words like economy or sports, but some are nested paths — tag/explainer, tag/human-rights, audio/podcasts — that /aljazeera/topic expects verbatim, prefix included.
- Step 2
Follow the site-wide feed
Call /aljazeera/headlines for the newest stories across every desk. A 2026-09-24 pull returned 22 items published within a single five-hour window, each tagged with its own section field — News, Sport, Opinions, News Analysis.
- Step 3
Read one section's archive
Pass a slug from /aljazeera/categories to /aljazeera/topic. middle-east returned 7 stories on 2026-09-24, and not every item carries a summary field — one entry on the Iran-war liveblog had a title only.
- Step 4
Open an Al Jazeera piece with its metadata
Pass a canonical aljazeera.com article URL to /aljazeera/article for its metadata and body. A 2026-09-24 story on Israel's election committee barring Arab party lists was published at 02:06 UTC and revised at 03:13 UTC the same morning.
- Step 5
Read an author page via /author/<slug>
Pass a canonical aljazeera.com/author/<name>_<id> URL, or its slug, to /aljazeera/author for a correspondent's bio and recent bylines. Article authors return as plain names, not links, so the URL has to be found separately — a pull for correspondent Zeina Khodr returned an archive reaching back to 2020.
Agent skills
Use Al Jazeera data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Al Jazeera data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Al Jazeera:
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FAQ
Scraping Al Jazeera: common questions
How do I find valid Al Jazeera section slugs?
Call /aljazeera/categories. A 2026-09-24 pull returned 23 entries, and some — like tag/human-rights and audio/podcasts — are nested paths rather than plain words; pass them to /aljazeera/topic exactly as listed.
Does every headline or topic item include a summary?
No. A 2026-09-24 pull of the middle-east topic returned one liveblog entry with a title and image but no summary field at all — treat summary as optional, not guaranteed.
What's the difference between headlines and topic?
/aljazeera/headlines follows the site-wide feed across every desk and tags each story with its section; /aljazeera/topic reads one section's own archive page, for scoping coverage to, say, middle-east or economy alone.
Who funds Al Jazeera, and does that affect what's public here?
Al Jazeera is owned and funded by the Qatari government through Qatar Media Corporation, a matter of public record these endpoints don't change. They read the same public English-language site anyone can browse — no login or subscriber session required.