Irish national news monitoring
Use Irish Independent endpoints to turn irish national news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Monitor Irish national, county, business, sport, entertainment, and podcast-linked reporting from the Irish Independent.
Extract Irish Independent news, county sections, articles, premium flags, and author profiles 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": "Irish Independent",
"endpoint": "irishindependent-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/irishindependent/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Irish Independent news, county sections, articles, premium flags, and author profiles as structured JSON.
Use Irish Independent endpoints to turn irish national news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Irish Independent endpoints to turn county news collection into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Irish Independent endpoints to turn premium-content identification into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Irish Independent endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Irish Independent endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those Irish Independent endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Irish 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.
Irish Independent endpoints document their error responses (400, 404 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 Irish 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
/irishindependent/article
/irishindependent/author
/irishindependent/headlines
/irishindependent/news
/irishindependent/sections
Endpoint catalog
/irishindependent/sectionsReturns every Irish Independent section slug accepted by the headlines endpoint (national, regional and county news, sport, business, comment, lifestyle and entertainment), with its display name and public RSS feed URL.
MCP tool irishindependent_sections
/irishindependent/newsReturns fresh Irish Independent (independent.ie) top stories from the site's public RSS feed, with summary, author, publish time, and lead image when present. Some stories are premium (subscriber) content; open them with the article endpoint to see the paywalled flag.
MCP tool irishindependent_news
/irishindependent/headlinesReturns fresh headlines from one public Irish Independent section feed. The section must be a slug returned by the sections endpoint.
MCP tool irishindependent_headlines
/irishindependent/articleReturns public Irish Independent article metadata (headline, description, section, authors, publish/update times, lead image) and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Premium articles are served to anonymous readers as a one-paragraph teaser; those are returned with paywalled set to true and only the teaser paragraph.
MCP tool irishindependent_article
/irishindependent/authorReturns an Irish Independent author's name, biography, published email and social links, headshot, and their most recent articles (the first page of the profile's article list) from a canonical author URL.
MCP tool irishindependent_author
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How to scrape Irish Independent
The Irish Independent is a Mediahuis Ireland title with a national newsroom and extensive county routes. The catalog documents 128 section slugs and a public latest feed containing about 50 recent stories. Begin with the county or regional route for place-based research, then use the latest feed only when a national cross-section is the intended sample.
Call /irishindependent/sections to select national business, comment, sport, entertainment, or county-specific routes.
Use /irishindependent/news for current stories or /irishindependent/headlines for the exact county or editorial section.
Open a canonical URL through /irishindependent/article; inspect its paywalled field when a subscriber-only story must be identified.
FAQ
The sections endpoint lists county and county-subsection slugs, which can be passed to /irishindependent/headlines for localized feeds.
Yes. The public feed does not label premium content, but the article endpoint exposes a paywalled flag when the publisher serves subscriber-only material.
Mediahuis Ireland publishes the Irish Independent and says the title has been part of the Belgian Mediahuis group since its 2019 acquisition of Independent News & Media.