US news monitoring
Use NPR endpoints to turn us news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn npr.org's public navigation, RSS headline feed, section archives, and article pages into normalized JSON for US news and public-radio content monitoring.
Get NPR's section navigation, site-wide headlines, section archives, and full public article content as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "NPR",
"endpoint": "npr-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/npr/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get NPR's section navigation, site-wide headlines, section archives, and full public article content as structured JSON.
Use NPR endpoints to turn us news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use NPR endpoints to turn public-radio content aggregation into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use NPR endpoints to turn editorial research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live NPR endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented NPR endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Categories, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those NPR endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 NPR endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
NPR 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 NPR endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/npr/article
/npr/author
/npr/categories
/npr/headlines
/npr/topic
Endpoint catalog
/npr/articleReturns an NPR article by canonical `url` in the form `https://www.npr.org/YYYY/MM/DD/...`: title, description, section, authors, lead image, publication and update times, and body `paragraphs`. Tracking query strings and fragments are ignored; other hosts, encoded paths and non-article paths are rejected.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-20; section: “Immigration”.
MCP tool npr_article
/npr/authorReturns an NPR author profile from a required `url` in the form `https://www.npr.org/people/<id>/<slug>`. The response has `name`, `job_title`, `bio` and the recent stories listed under Stories By, each with title, URL, summary, publication date and a lead image where the card has one. Other hosts or paths return a bad-request error.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 24 items, 4 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-06-01 to 2026-10-10; url: npr.org.
MCP tool npr_author
/npr/categoriesLists the sections in NPR's current navigation, each with its name, slug and URL. Pass a returned `slug` as the `topic` parameter of `npr-topic`. The list is not a fixed set, so it follows whatever sections NPR currently shows.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “News” and 19 other values; url: npr.org.
MCP tool npr_categories
/npr/headlinesReturns the current NPR headlines across the site, with no parameters and no section filter. Each item has a title, canonical URL, summary, publication time and author when one is given.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: npr.org.
MCP tool npr_headlines
/npr/topicReturns the newest public NPR stories from one section archive page. topic is a section slug; use npr-categories for the current value space.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 24 items, 4 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-13; title: “Government spent millions on Trump ads. And, federal agents…” and 23 other values.
MCP tool npr_topic
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How to scrape NPR
NPR is a nonprofit owned by its member stations, and it has run without federal Corporation for Public Broadcasting money since Congress rescinded $1.1 billion in CPB funding in 2025. None of that changes what's public on npr.org: a 2026-09-24 categories pull returned 22 sections, from Technology and Climate to niche verticals like All Songs Considered, and that day's technology archive held 23 stories running back to 2026-09-09. Crawlora's five NPR endpoints read all of it as normalized JSON.
Call /npr/categories for npr.org's live navigation — a 2026-09-24 pull returned 22 sections mixing hard-news beats like Politics and Economy with narrower verticals like Children's Health. Every slug works directly as the topic parameter on /npr/topic.
Call /npr/headlines for NPR's site-wide feed. Each item carries a byline as plain text, not a link, plus a Z-suffixed timestamp, e.g. 2026-09-24T11:10:14Z.
Pass a slug from /npr/categories to /npr/topic for that section's own archive. technology returned 23 stories on 2026-09-24, oldest from 2026-09-09 — coverage dominated by AI-safety stories, from Anthropic's IPO push to Trump downplaying slowdown warnings.
Pass a canonical npr.org article URL to /npr/article for its metadata and body paragraphs. The article endpoint's published_at carries a UTC offset (2026-09-24T05:00:00-04:00) while /npr/headlines returns a Z-suffixed timestamp for the same field — the two don't share a format.
Pass a canonical npr.org/people/<id>/<slug> URL to /npr/author for that reporter's bio and recent articles — one 2026-09-24 pull returned 25 pieces spanning 2025-12-12 through 2026-09-24. That URL isn't in the headlines or topic payloads, so resolve it from search or a byline link first.
Agent skills
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull NPR data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover NPR:
Researches public news from international, regional, business, technology, sports, science, and entertainment publishers through the Crawlora API —…
npx skills add github.com/Crawlora-org/crawlora-skills --skill news-media-researchFAQ
Call /npr/categories first. A 2026-09-24 pull returned 22 sections, and any slug it lists — technology, climate, economy, even something as narrow as global-health — works directly as the topic value.
No. Passing technology on 2026-09-24 returned 23 stories reaching back to 2026-09-09, a 15-day archive rather than a rolling same-day cutoff.
Yes. Losing federal Corporation for Public Broadcasting support hasn't put npr.org behind a paywall; headlines, section archives, and articles stay fully public, so these endpoints need only a Crawlora API key.
A canonical npr.org/people/<id>/<slug> URL. That URL isn't included in the headlines or topic payloads — bylines there are plain names — so it has to be resolved from an article page or a search first.