Local news monitoring
Use Los Angeles Times endpoints to turn local news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming4 active endpointsapiKey
Los Angeles Times API
Turn Los Angeles Times sections and articles into structured JSON for local news monitoring, research, and aggregation.
Discover Los Angeles Times sections and get section headlines or full article content as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
4
Documented params
7
Examples
4
Live catalog snapshot
Los Angeles Times coverage
Active endpoints
4
Methods
GET
Required params
6
Schema refs
4
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
Sections1
{
"platform": "Los Angeles Times",
"endpoint": "latimes-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/latimes/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit Los Angeles Times
Discover Los Angeles Times sections and get section headlines or full article content as structured JSON.
Media research
Use Los Angeles Times endpoints to turn media research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Content aggregation
Use Los Angeles Times 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 Los Angeles Times endpoint catalog — 4 endpoints, 7 documented request parameters, and 4 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
4 documented Los Angeles Times endpoints, grouped into 4 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 1 more.
Published request surface
7 request parameters are documented across those Los Angeles Times endpoints, 6 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
4 of the 4 Los Angeles Times endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 4 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Documented failure modes
Los Angeles Times 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
4 hosted MCP tools back the Los Angeles Times 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
/latimes/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/latimes/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/latimes/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/latimes/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Los Angeles Times API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/latimes/articleGet Los Angeles Times article content
Returns a Los Angeles Times article's public metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL, read from the page's NewsArticle structured data.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 of 10 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-19; section: “Climate & Environment”.
MCP tool latimes_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/latimes/authorGet a Los Angeles Times author profile
Returns a Los Angeles Times author profile by `url`, a canonical `https://www.latimes.com/people/<slug>` link; other hosts or paths return a bad-request error. The response has the `name`, `job_title`, `bio`, `email`, `image_url`, `social_accounts` and recent articles with title, URL, summary, publication time and lead image. Accounts the page does not list are absent.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-09-06 to 2026-10-09; url: latimes.com.
MCP tool latimes_author
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/latimes/headlinesGet Los Angeles Times section headlines
Returns fresh headlines from a public Los Angeles Times section RSS feed: title, canonical URL, summary, author, publication time, and lead image. section defaults to main.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 93 items, 5 fields filled in every item, 2 not. published_at: “2026-10-12T10:00:00Z” and 84 other values; url: latimes.com.
MCP tool latimes_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/latimes/sectionsList Los Angeles Times section feeds
Returns the complete set of section slugs accepted by latimes-headlines, each with its display name and public RSS feed URL.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 43 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Business” and 42 other values; feed_url: latimes.com.
MCP tool latimes_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape Los Angeles Times
Extract Los Angeles Times data in 4 steps
The Los Angeles Times' public RSS layer covers 44 sections, from statewide news down to single-team feeds like Dodgers and Lakers, plus two Spanish-language verticals. A 2026-09-24 pull of the California section returned 93 stories in a single page. Crawlora's four LA Times endpoints turn that section directory, section headlines, full articles, and reporter byline pages into normalized JSON, with the Times' own is_accessible_for_free flag passed through on every article.
- Step 1
Map 43 slugs from business to world-nation
/latimes/sections returns all 44 section slugs and their public RSS feed URLs, from california and politics down to sports/dodgers and espanol/mexico.
- Step 2
Read one section's headlines
Pass a slug to /latimes/headlines for that section's current RSS items. The california section returned 93 stories in a single 2026-09-24 pull, each with a single comma-joined author string per item, such as "Kate Sequeira, Ava Hu", rather than a list.
- Step 3
Budget 4,500 characters per article
/latimes/article returns an authors array (unlike headlines' single string), section, published and updated timestamps, body paragraphs, and the is_accessible_for_free value the Times declares in its own structured data.
- Step 4
Open a reporter's byline page
Pass a canonical latimes.com/people/<slug> URL to /latimes/author for that reporter's bio, job title, and recent articles; two of ten recent-article entries in one 2026-09-24 test omitted the summary field.
Agent skills
Use Los Angeles Times data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Los Angeles Times data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Los Angeles Times:
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npx skills add github.com/Crawlora-org/crawlora-skills --skill news-media-research
FAQ
Scraping Los Angeles Times: common questions
How many sections does the LA Times integration cover?
44 on 2026-09-24, including sport-specific feeds like Dodgers, Lakers, and USC and two full Spanish-language sections. Call /latimes/sections rather than hardcoding a list, since the Times adds and retires feeds.
Does the article endpoint format authors the same way as headlines?
No. /latimes/headlines returns one comma-joined author string per story, like "Kate Sequeira, Ava Hu", while /latimes/article returns the same names as a proper array — build for both shapes if your integration reads both endpoints.
What is the is_accessible_for_free field?
It is the Times' own declaration from the article's structured data, passed through unchanged, so you can tell which stories the paper marks as free and which it counts toward its meter. Crawlora reads the public article page only; it never signs in as a subscriber.
What URL format does the author endpoint need?
A canonical latimes.com/people/<slug> page, such as latimes.com/people/kate-sequeira — that's the Times' own reporter-bio URL structure, not a byline link pulled directly off an article page.
Who owns the Los Angeles Times?
Biotech entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought it for $500 million in 2018 and has said he plans to eventually take the paper public. These endpoints read the paper's existing public and metered pages as published, independent of that ownership.