Tech news monitoring
Use MakeUseOf endpoints to turn tech news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn MakeUseOf into structured JSON — its 14 public RSS category feeds, each feed's current headline cards, full article content, author profiles, and a site-wide top-stories feed, all with one API key.
Get MakeUseOf's section directory, section headlines, full article content, and author profiles as structured JSON for consumer tech news monitoring.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "MakeUseOf",
"endpoint": "makeuseof-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/makeuseof/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get MakeUseOf's section directory, section headlines, full article content, and author profiles as structured JSON for consumer tech news monitoring.
Use MakeUseOf endpoints to turn tech news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use MakeUseOf endpoints to turn content aggregation into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use MakeUseOf endpoints to turn author and byline research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live MakeUseOf endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented MakeUseOf endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those MakeUseOf endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 MakeUseOf endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
MakeUseOf 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 MakeUseOf endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/makeuseof/article
/makeuseof/author
/makeuseof/headlines
/makeuseof/news
/makeuseof/sections
Endpoint catalog
/makeuseof/articleReturns a MakeUseOf article by `url`, a canonical HTTPS article link. The response has the title, description, section, authors, lead image, publish and update times, the article body as `paragraphs`, and a `paywalled` flag. Section, author, tag, utility and video pages are not article URLs.
MCP tool makeuseof_article
/makeuseof/authorReturns an author's public byline metadata, biography, social links, and recent stories from a canonical author URL. Only the first page is covered.
MCP tool makeuseof_author
/makeuseof/headlinesReturns current MakeUseOf headlines for one category. `section` is required and takes one of 14 slugs such as `windows`, `linux`, `google-android`, `security`, `smart-home` or `news`; tag archives are not accepted. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image.
MCP tool makeuseof_headlines
/makeuseof/newsReturns MakeUseOf's current top stories, with no parameters. Each item has its title, canonical article URL, short summary, publication time, and author and image when available.
MCP tool makeuseof_news
/makeuseof/sectionsLists the 14 MakeUseOf sections accepted by `makeuseof-headlines`, including `windows`, `linux`, `apple`, `networking`, `productivity`, `streaming` and `news`. Each entry has a `slug`, display `name` and `url`. Open-ended tag archives are not sections.
MCP tool makeuseof_sections
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How to scrape MakeUseOf
MakeUseOf splits its consumer-tech coverage into 14 public RSS category feeds, from Windows and Linux through Smart Home and Streaming. Crawlora's five endpoints turn that section list, section headline cards, full article content, and author profiles into normalized JSON. A 2026-10-01 pull of the technology-explained feed returned 10 articles published between 2026-09-28 and 2026-09-30 across eight different bylines, each card carrying an ISO published_at timestamp, a one-line summary, and a lead image_url.
/makeuseof/sections returns all 14 live category slugs: windows, linux, google-android, apple, technology-explained, networking, security, productivity, creative, entertainment, streaming, smart-home, home, and news.
/makeuseof/headlines takes one of those slugs and returns that feed's current cards — author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, and url.
/makeuseof/article takes a canonical article URL and returns metadata plus readable body paragraphs.
/makeuseof/author takes a canonical author URL and returns the byline's biography, social links, and recent stories — only the first page is covered.
/makeuseof/news returns MakeUseOf's current site-wide top stories from its public RSS feed — a section-agnostic alternative to /makeuseof/headlines.
FAQ
Any of 14 live category feeds — windows, linux, google-android, apple, technology-explained, networking, security, productivity, creative, entertainment, streaming, smart-home, home, and news — call /makeuseof/sections for the current list.
Yes. /makeuseof/headlines cards carry an author, an ISO published_at timestamp, a one-line summary, a lead image_url, title, and url.
No — /makeuseof/author returns only the first page of an author's recent stories, alongside their biography and social links.
Collecting publicly accessible section, headline, article, and author-profile data is generally permissible if you respect MakeUseOf's terms of use, robots directives, rate limits, and applicable law. This is for public data you are authorized to collect.