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Try the BBC News article content API

Returns a BBC News article's public metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Live pages are not supported.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: Single record response; 8 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /bbc/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fc74k8zwvez0o
Fields with a value in every checked item: url, title, description, published_at, updated_at, authors, image_url, paragraphs

Sample value profiles: published_at: 2026-08-26; url: bbc.co.uk; title: 69 characters.

Request: GET /bbc/article
Cost: 2 credits/request
Auth: apiKey
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%, median 1.91 s
Monitored request: GET /bbc/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fc74k8zwvez0o

BBC News article content API documentation BBC News platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/bbc/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fcd68q3wynnqo' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
url	string	Yes	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd68q3wynnqo	Canonical BBC News article URL

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c123abc4567",
    "title": "Example article",
    "paragraphs": [
      "Example paragraph."
    ]
  }
}

More BBC endpoints

Get a BBC News correspondent's profile Get BBC News section headlines Get a BBC News live-page text snapshot Search public BBC pages

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GETapiKey2 credits/requestbbc.articleResponseDocBBC

GET /bbc/article

Get BBC News article content

Returns a BBC News article's public metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Live pages are not supported.

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Required query parameters

url

requiredstring

Canonical BBC News article URL

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c123abc4567",
    "title": "Example article",
    "paragraphs": [
      "Example paragraph."
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint Playground

Try the BBC News article content API

Returns a BBC News article's public metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Live pages are not supported.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: Single record response; 8 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /bbc/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fc74k8zwvez0o
Fields with a value in every checked item: url, title, description, published_at, updated_at, authors, image_url, paragraphs

Sample value profiles: published_at: 2026-08-26; url: bbc.co.uk; title: 69 characters.

Request: GET /bbc/article
Cost: 2 credits/request
Auth: apiKey
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%, median 1.91 s
Monitored request: GET /bbc/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fc74k8zwvez0o

BBC News article content API documentation BBC News platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/bbc/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fcd68q3wynnqo' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
url	string	Yes	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd68q3wynnqo	Canonical BBC News article URL

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c123abc4567",
    "title": "Example article",
    "paragraphs": [
      "Example paragraph."
    ]
  }
}

More BBC endpoints

Get a BBC News correspondent's profile Get BBC News section headlines Get a BBC News live-page text snapshot Search public BBC pages

The sample response, schema and code snippets below work without an account. Sending a live request needs an API key.

Set up API key Endpoint docs

Endpoint

Choose one catalog endpoint for this request.

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Group

Method

Auth

Endpoint

GETapiKey2 credits/requestbbc.articleResponseDocBBC

GET /bbc/article

Get BBC News article content

Returns a BBC News article's public metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Live pages are not supported.

API key required. Paste a full key or rotate one from the API Keys page.

Set up API key

View docs

API key

API key required for live requests. Your key is only used to send requests from this Playground.

not configured

Active Playground key: not configured

Manage API keys in Console

Required query parameters

url

requiredstring

Canonical BBC News article URL

Add an API key to send a live request.

If an active API key is configured, Copy cURL includes it. Share links never include API keys.

View docs

Sample responseGET

Shown before your first request. Add an API key and send a request to see the live response, status, latency, and headers.

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c123abc4567",
    "title": "Example article",
    "paragraphs": [
      "Example paragraph."
    ]
  }
}