Political news monitoring
Use Politico endpoints to turn political news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn Politico's public navigation, feeds, section pages, and articles into normalized JSON for political news monitoring.
Get Politico section navigation, site-wide headlines, section archives, and full articles as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Politico",
"endpoint": "politico-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/politico/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get Politico section navigation, site-wide headlines, section archives, and full articles as structured JSON.
Use Politico endpoints to turn political news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Politico endpoints to turn policy research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Politico endpoints to turn content aggregation into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Politico endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Politico endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Categories, plus 2 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those Politico endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Politico endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Politico 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 Politico endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/politico/article
/politico/author
/politico/categories
/politico/headlines
/politico/topic
Endpoint catalog
/politico/articleReturns a public Politico article's metadata and full body paragraphs from a canonical article URL.
MCP tool politico_article
/politico/authorReturns one Politico staff author's public profile: name, job title, bio, headshot, and their most recent bylined articles. Politico staff pages expose a fixed-size recent-articles list with no pagination.
MCP tool politico_author
/politico/categoriesReturns Politico's full public section navigation tree, grouped the same way the site's own nav menu groups it. Use a section's slug directly as the topic parameter on politico-topic.
MCP tool politico_categories
/politico/headlinesReturns fresh headlines from Politico's public, site-wide RSS feed.
MCP tool politico_headlines
/politico/topicReturns the newest public Politico stories on one section archive page. topic is a section slug -- see politico-categories for the full known value space.
MCP tool politico_topic
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How to scrape Politico
Politico's public navigation groups its coverage into eight menus, from Washington & Politics and State Politics & Policy to Newsletters and Columnists, and /politico/categories returns them as a grouped tree. The site-wide /politico/headlines feed runs broader than a typical top-stories list: alongside the Trump-Xi and midterms coverage on 2026-09-24, it mixed in Politico Magazine essays and poll write-ups dating back to January 2025. Crawlora's five Politico endpoints read that navigation, the feed, one section's archive, and both article and author pages as normalized JSON.
/politico/categories returns Politico's navigation as eight named groups, each with its section slugs listed once. State Politics & Policy and Global Politics share a column on the site; the API keeps them as separate groups.
/politico/headlines returned 40 items on 2026-09-24, mixing that morning's midterms and Trump-Xi coverage with Politico Magazine pieces as old as January 2025 — treat it as a broad content stream, not a strict latest-news feed.
Passing congress-news-updates-analysis to /politico/topic returned 18 stories, all published within the prior two days. Unlike the headlines feed, topic items carry only authors, title, and url — no published_at.
/politico/article returned full metadata and 33 ordered paragraphs for a same-day story, including a trailing "contributed to this report" credit line as its own paragraph entry.
/politico/author returned reporter Jessica Piper's bio, job title, and ten recent bylines on 2026-09-24. Their dates are normalized to UTC, the same format /politico/article and /politico/headlines use.
FAQ
As groups that mirror Politico's own menu: eight on 2026-09-24, including Washington & Politics, Policy News, Newsletters, Columnists, and Series & More. Each group lists its section slugs once, deduplicated by URL, so you can pass any of them to /politico/topic.
No. It reads a broader feed that also surfaces Politico Magazine essays and older poll analyses — a 2026-09-24 pull included a piece first published in January 2025 sitting alongside that morning's stories.
/politico/topic items carry only authors, title, and url — no published_at, summary, or image, unlike the richer records /politico/headlines and /politico/article return.
Axel Springer, the German publisher, bought Politico from founder Robert Allbritton in 2021 for over $1 billion, folding in the earlier Politico Europe joint venture. These endpoints read Politico's free public site; the separate paid Politico Pro product isn't part of this integration.
No. Politico has no public API for its free site or its paid Politico Pro subscription product — Pro is sold as a browser/app research tool, not a data feed with a key. Crawlora's endpoints read Politico's public navigation, feeds, and articles instead, with no API from Politico itself to integrate against.