West Midlands local-news monitoring
Use Birmingham Mail endpoints to turn west midlands local-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Monitor Birmingham, the West Midlands, the Black Country, and local public-safety and cost-of-living coverage.
Collect Birmingham Mail headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Covers West Midlands news.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Birmingham Mail",
"endpoint": "birminghammail-headlines",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/birminghammail/headlines",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Collect Birmingham Mail headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Covers West Midlands news.
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Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Birmingham Mail endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 10 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Birmingham Mail endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
10 request parameters are documented across those Birmingham Mail endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Birmingham Mail endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Birmingham Mail 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 Birmingham Mail endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/birminghammail/article
/birminghammail/author
/birminghammail/headlines
/birminghammail/news
/birminghammail/sections
Endpoint catalog
/birminghammail/headlinesReturns fresh headlines from one public Birmingham Mail section. Photo galleries are omitted because they have no readable article body.
MCP tool birminghammail_headlines
/birminghammail/newsReturns fresh Birmingham Mail top stories from the public home RSS feed. Photo galleries are omitted because they have no readable article body.
MCP tool birminghammail_news
/birminghammail/sectionsLists the 23 Birmingham Mail sections that `birminghammail-headlines` accepts, such as `news/midlands-news`, `black-country`, `sport/football/transfer-news` and `whats-on`. Each has a `slug`, a display `name` and the feed `url`. Only sections with a recently updated feed are included (last verified 2026-09-25), and each returns up to about 25 entries.
MCP tool birminghammail_sections
/birminghammail/articleReturns public Birmingham Mail article metadata (including the section) and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Photo-gallery URLs are rejected.
MCP tool birminghammail_article
/birminghammail/authorReturns one Birmingham Mail author's public profile: name, job title, bio, email, X/Twitter handle, and one page of their recent articles.
MCP tool birminghammail_author
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How to scrape Birmingham Mail
Use Birmingham Mail's local sections to preserve the distinction between city, Black Country, Midlands, UK, and service journalism. Midlands News, Black Country, cost of living, money, health, and motoring appear as distinct public sections. Choose a locality or service beat before pulling full articles: a Black Country public-safety report should not be silently labeled as Birmingham city news. The 2026-09-26 feed led with a Midlands prisoner-arrest story, showing why the source geography matters. Keep its section, timestamp, headline, and article URL so a later police update can be linked to the original report.
Inspect sections for Midlands News or Black Country before fetching a feed.
Use headlines and news to discover current public stories.
Retrieve its public article and author record for contextual analysis.
FAQ
Yes. Birmingham Mail exposes Black Country as a separate public section, alongside broader Birmingham and Midlands reporting.
The 5-endpoint integration returns the public data documented for each Birmingham Mail route. Article, headline, news, and section feeds vary by publisher; an author-related route is also listed, and its behavior is platform-specific.