News monitoring
Use BBC News endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn BBC News into structured JSON — full article body and metadata from a canonical article URL, and fresh section headlines from BBC's public RSS feeds, both without scraping HTML by hand.
Get BBC News article content and section headlines as structured JSON from a canonical article URL or a public RSS section.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
11
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
9
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "BBC News",
"endpoint": "bbc-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/bbc/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get BBC News article content and section headlines as structured JSON from a canonical article URL or a public RSS section.
Use BBC News endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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Use BBC News endpoints to turn media research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live BBC News endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 11 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented BBC News endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
11 request parameters are documented across those BBC News endpoints, 9 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 BBC News endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
BBC News 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.
5 hosted MCP tools back the BBC News endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/bbc/article
/bbc/author
/bbc/headlines
/bbc/live
/bbc/search
Endpoint catalog
/bbc/articleReturns a BBC News article's public metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Live pages are not supported.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 8 of 8 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-08-26; url: bbc.co.uk.
MCP tool bbc_article
/bbc/authorReturns a BBC News correspondent's profile from `url`, a canonical `bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/<slug>` address: name, short `bio` and recent articles with title, URL, section and publication date when the page shows one. `published_at` is `YYYY-MM-DD` when the page gives a full date; items labelled only with a relative time, such as `2 days ago`, come back as written.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 24 items, 4 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2013-05-22 to 2022-03-25; url: bbc.co.uk.
MCP tool bbc_author
/bbc/headlinesReturns fresh BBC News headlines for one section, `world` by default. `section` can be `all`, `world`, `uk`, `politics`, `business`, `health`, `science_and_environment`, `technology` or `entertainment_and_arts`; `all` can mix stories from several sections. Each item has a title, URL, summary and publication time when available.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 21 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: bbc.co.uk.
MCP tool bbc_headlines
/bbc/liveReturns the current server-rendered text updates from one canonical BBC News live URL. It does not subscribe to updates or return broadcast, player, or stream data.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 3 fields filled in every item. timestamp: “published at 23:16 BST 27 August23:16 BST 27 August” and 19 other values; title: median 112 characters.
MCP tool bbc_live
/bbc/searchReturns a bounded page of public BBC search-result metadata: title, URL, standfirst summary, display date, and a type of article, video, audio, live, topic, or page. Topic items are BBC topic hub pages rather than articles and carry no published_at. Media entries link only to their BBC landing pages; streams, downloads, and transcripts are not returned.
Response notes
- Each item has `title`, `url`, `summary` (the result's standfirst), and `published_at` (BBC's display date such as `7 August` or `3 days ago`, not an ISO timestamp). - `type` classifies the landing page and is always one of `article`, `video`, `audio`, `live`, `topic`, `page`. - `topic` items are BBC topic hub pages (evergreen index pages such as `/news/topics/...`), not articles. They carry no `published_at`; filter on `type` to keep only dated stories. - `site` is the BBC product that hosts the result (for example `News`, `Sounds`, `iPlayer`) and `section` is BBC's section label when the card shows one (for example `Topics`); both are omitted when absent.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 6 fields filled in every item, 1 not. type: audio (4), article (4), topic (1) and 1 more; title: “Climate” and 8 other values.
MCP tool bbc_search
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How to scrape BBC News
Crawlora's BBC endpoints read BBC News pages and feeds and return JSON for articles, section headlines, site search, and live pages. BBC articles come back fully split into paragraphs; a 2026-09-17 robotics feature returned 46 paragraphs, with the author, image, and timestamps accurate to the millisecond. Section feeds are compact, with 13 technology headlines on 2026-09-18.
/bbc/headlines accepts all, world, uk, politics, business, health, science_and_environment, or technology, and returns each story's title, URL, summary, and published_at.
Pass a bbc.co.uk or bbc.com News article URL to /bbc/article for title, description, published_at and updated_at, an authors list, image_url, and every body paragraph in order.
/bbc/search takes q (up to 120 characters) and page and returns 10 results per page, each with title, URL, summary, and BBC's display date in published_at. Every result has a type of article, video, audio, live, topic, or page, so keep type=article if you only want stories.
/bbc/live takes a canonical BBC News live URL and returns its current server-rendered text updates. It is a snapshot rather than a subscription, so re-request it to pick up new posts.
FAQ
Yes. /bbc/live returns the text updates currently on a BBC News live page. Standard articles use /bbc/article.
all, world, uk, politics, business, health, science_and_environment, and technology.
BBC's own search mixes topic hubs, such as the Artificial Intelligence topic, in with articles. Those results come back with type set to topic and no published_at, so they are easy to filter out.