Science-news monitoring
Use Live Science endpoints to turn science-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Follow accessible science reporting on space, archaeology, animals, health, human behavior, physics, Earth, and technology.
Extract Live Science news, science sections, articles, author profiles, and public research coverage as JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Live Science",
"endpoint": "livescience-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/livescience/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Live Science news, science sections, articles, author profiles, and public research coverage as JSON.
Use Live Science endpoints to turn science-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Live Science endpoints to turn space and archaeology research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Live Science endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 10 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Live Science endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
10 request parameters are documented across those Live Science endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Live Science endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Live Science 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 Live Science endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/livescience/article
/livescience/author
/livescience/headlines
/livescience/news
/livescience/sections
Endpoint catalog
/livescience/sectionsLists the 14 top-level Live Science sections accepted by `livescience-headlines`, including `animals`, `archaeology`, `human-behavior`, `physics-mathematics`, `planet-earth` and `space`. Each entry has a `slug`, display `name` and section `url`.
MCP tool livescience_sections
/livescience/newsReturns Live Science's current top stories across the site, with no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image where available. Use `livescience-headlines` to narrow to one section.
MCP tool livescience_news
/livescience/headlinesReturns current Live Science headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes one of 14 slugs: `animals`, `archaeology`, `chemistry`, `features`, `health`, `human-behavior`, `interviews`, `news`, `opinion`, `physics-mathematics`, `planet-earth`, `products`, `space` or `technology`. Each item has a title and URL, plus author, publication time and image when the section page shows them.
MCP tool livescience_headlines
/livescience/articleReturns a Live Science article by `url`, a canonical HTTPS `livescience.com` article link. The response has the title, description, section, authors, lead image, publish and update times, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag.
MCP tool livescience_article
/livescience/authorReturns one Live Science author's public profile: name, job title, biography, social links, and one page of their recent articles.
MCP tool livescience_author
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How to scrape Live Science
Live Science launched as a complement to Space.com and is now published by Future plc. Its public section taxonomy spans space, archaeology, animals, health, human behavior, physics-mathematics, planet Earth, and technology. Use a discipline route for a research watchlist so an archaeology discovery or health explainer does not get diluted by the site’s general science stream.
Call /livescience/sections to choose space, archaeology, animals, health, chemistry, human-behavior, planet-earth, or physics-mathematics.
Use /livescience/news for top stories or /livescience/headlines with one supported scientific section.
Use /livescience/article for a canonical story and /livescience/author for a public author profile and recent articles.
FAQ
Live Science says Future plc acquired Purch in 2018 and is its current publisher.
Yes. Archaeology is a supported section alongside space, animals, health, chemistry, physics-mathematics, planet Earth, and technology.
Where a publisher serves only a teaser to anonymous readers, the article response can mark the public body as paywalled and returns the available paragraphs.