News monitoring
Use CNN endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn CNN into structured JSON — full article content with author and publish time, current section headline streams, and chronological updates from a CNN live story, all from canonical cnn.com URLs.
Get CNN article content, section headlines, and live story updates as structured JSON from a canonical cnn.com URL.
Endpoint families
4
Documented params
9
Examples
4
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
4
Methods
GET
Required params
6
Schema refs
4
{
"platform": "CNN",
"endpoint": "cnn-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/cnn/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get CNN article content, section headlines, and live story updates as structured JSON from a canonical cnn.com URL.
Use CNN endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live CNN endpoint catalog — 4 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 4 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
4 documented CNN endpoints, grouped into 4 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 1 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those CNN endpoints, 6 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
4 of the 4 CNN endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 4 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
CNN endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429, 500 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.
4 hosted MCP tools back the CNN endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/cnn/article
/cnn/author
/cnn/headlines
/cnn/live-story
Endpoint catalog
/cnn/articleReturns a CNN article's headline, description, author, publication and update times, section, image, and body paragraphs. Provide a canonical cnn.com article URL.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 8 of 8 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-08-19; section: “world, africa”.
MCP tool cnn_article
/cnn/authorReturns one CNN profile's byline metadata (name and title), bio paragraphs, social accounts, and recent articles/videos. Provide either a profile slug or a canonical cnn.com/profiles/<slug> URL.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 16 items, 5 fields filled in every item. url: cnn.com; image_url: media.cnn.com.
MCP tool cnn_author
/cnn/headlinesReturns the current CNN headline stream for one section, including title, article URL, description, publication time, and image when available.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 68 items, 3 fields filled in every item. url: cnn.com; title: median 75 characters.
MCP tool cnn_headlines
/cnn/live-storyReturns a CNN live story from its canonical cnn.com live-news `url`: title, description, last update time and the posts in chronological order. Each post has an id, title, paragraphs of text, and published and updated times.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 21 items, 2 fields filled in every item. title: median 69 characters; paragraphs: median 6 entries.
MCP tool cnn_live_story
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How to scrape CNN
CNN is part of Warner Bros. Discovery, which has agreed to a $31-a-share all-cash sale to Paramount Skydance. Crawlora's four endpoints read CNN's public article, section, author, and live-story pages and return normalized JSON. The section fronts are big: pulls on 2026-09-24 returned 65 cards from the world front, 47 from politics, and 71 from business.
Pass a canonical cnn.com article URL to /cnn/article for headline, description, author, times, section, image, body paragraphs, and related_items. A 2026-09-24 pull returned section as the combined string "world, middleeast" rather than a single value.
Call /cnn/headlines with a section for that front's current cards. Titles come from CNN's headline element rather than the card's thumbnail, so photo credits and captions stay out of the title field. The world front returned 65 cards on 2026-09-24.
Pass a slug or URL to /cnn/author for a journalist's bio, social accounts, and recent work. CNN doesn't expose a predictable slug — a guessed one returned “profile not found” on 2026-09-24, so copy the exact author URL from a byline link on cnn.com.
Pass a canonical cnn.com live-news URL to /cnn/live-story for its title, description, update time, and chronological post updates — re-run on a schedule to pick up new updates as they post.
FAQ
It depends on the front. On 2026-09-24, world returned 65 cards, politics 47, and business 71, each with a title and canonical URL. CNN reshuffles fronts through the day, so poll on a schedule if you track placement.
Copy it from a byline link on cnn.com — don't guess one from a reporter's name. A guessed slug, taken from a 2026-09-24 byline, returned “profile not found,” so CNN's author URLs aren't predictable from the printed name alone.
Yes — /cnn/live-story returns the story's post updates in chronological order; re-run it on a schedule and diff against your last run to pick up each new update as CNN publishes it.
Parent Warner Bros. Discovery has signed an all-cash agreement to be acquired by Paramount Skydance at $31 a share. Until that closes, CNN remains a Warner Bros. Discovery network.
No. Article, section, author, and live-story pages are public cnn.com content, and Crawlora reads them as published without any CNN account.