News monitoring
Use The Independent endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn The Independent's public RSS section directory, headline feed, and article pages into normalized JSON for UK and world news monitoring.
Get The Independent's public section list, site-wide and per-section headlines, and full public article content 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": "The Independent",
"endpoint": "independent-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/independent/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get The Independent's public section list, site-wide and per-section headlines, and full public article content as structured JSON.
Use The Independent endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Independent endpoints to turn opinion and lifestyle content tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Independent 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 The Independent endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented The Independent endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those The Independent endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 The Independent endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
The Independent 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 The Independent 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.
/independent/article
/independent/author
/independent/headlines
/independent/news
/independent/sections
Endpoint catalog
/independent/articleReturns public The Independent article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL.
MCP tool independent_article
/independent/authorReturns one Independent author's public profile: name, job title, bio, X/Twitter handle, and their recent articles.
MCP tool independent_author
/independent/headlinesReturns fresh headlines from one public The Independent RSS section.
MCP tool independent_headlines
/independent/newsReturns fresh The Independent top stories from its public RSS feed.
MCP tool independent_news
/independent/sectionsReturns the live-verified public RSS section inventory for The Independent.
MCP tool independent_sections
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How to scrape The Independent
The Independent is majority-owned by Evgeny Lebedev (41%), with Saudi investor Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel (30%) and Justin Byam Shaw (26%) holding most of the rest, and it went online-only in 2016. Unlike many UK papers it runs no paywall, funding itself partly through reader donations. It covers 17 sections, some nested under news/, plus a feed, headlines, articles, and author bios. Its feed was tightly current on 2026-09-24, while one section call returned just a single story.
Call /independent/sections for all 17 slugs /independent/headlines accepts, including nested paths like news/world and news/business alongside flat ones like voices, money, and bulletin.
Call /independent/news for the cross-section feed. A 2026-09-24 pull returned roughly 80 items, every one published inside a single 3.7-hour window that morning — tighter than several sibling outlets' feeds in this catalog.
Pass a slug from /independent/sections to /independent/headlines. Scoped to voices on the same pull, it returned just one story, a same-day advice column — don't assume every section will return a full page of results.
Pass a canonical independent.co.uk URL ending in a -b<id> suffix to /independent/article for title, author, section, and body paragraphs. Bookmark prompts, membership pop-ups, newsletter sign-ups, and the comments call-to-action are left out of the paragraphs.
Pass a slug or url to /independent/author for name, bio, X/Twitter handle, and recent bylines in one response.
FAQ
Yes. The Independent keeps its journalism free to read and asks readers who can afford it to donate instead of subscribing, so articles, sections, and author pages are all public.
No. Several are nested, such as news/world, news/business, and news/obituaries — pass them exactly as /independent/sections returns them rather than assuming a flat slug.
Not always — see the voices count above. Some sections publish far less volume than others, so check the result length before assuming a full page.
Evgeny Lebedev holds the largest stake at 41%, with Saudi investor Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel at 30% and Justin Byam Shaw at 26%. The paper dropped its print edition in 2016 and has been online-only since.
A single page of the author's recent work. A 2026-09-24 call for business reporter Henry Saker-Clark returned more than 80 articles in one response, with no pagination field.