Greater Manchester news monitoring
Use Manchester Evening News endpoints to turn greater manchester news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Monitor Greater Manchester reporting across local news, politics, transport, communities, sport, culture, and consumer issues.
Extract Manchester Evening News sections, local headlines, articles, and author profiles as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Manchester Evening News",
"endpoint": "men-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/men/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Manchester Evening News sections, local headlines, articles, and author profiles as structured JSON.
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Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Manchester Evening News endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Manchester Evening News endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those Manchester Evening News endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Manchester Evening News endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Manchester Evening News 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 Manchester Evening News endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/men/article
/men/author
/men/headlines
/men/news
/men/sections
Endpoint catalog
/men/sectionsLists the Manchester Evening News sections accepted by `men-headlines`, such as `news`, `news/uk-news`, `sport/football`, `whats-on/music-nightlife-news` and `trips-and-breaks`. Each entry has a stable `slug`, display `name` and section `url`. Takes no parameters.
MCP tool men_sections
/men/newsReturns the Manchester Evening News' current top stories, with no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image where available.
MCP tool men_news
/men/headlinesReturns current Manchester Evening News headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `news`, `news/greater-manchester-news`, `sport/football/transfer-news`, `whats-on/theatre-news` or `trips-and-breaks`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time and image.
MCP tool men_headlines
/men/articleReturns a Manchester Evening News article by `url`, a canonical HTTPS article link. The response has the title, description, section, authors, lead image, publish and update times, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag. Subscriber-only or blocked articles return an upstream error.
MCP tool men_article
/men/authorReturns a Manchester Evening News author profile, identified by `slug` (such as `lee-swettenham`) or a canonical `manchestereveningnews.co.uk/authors/<slug>/` `url`; provide exactly one. The response has the name, job title, bio, `email`, `twitter` and one page of recent articles with title, URL and label. Contact fields are absent when unlisted.
MCP tool men_author
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How to scrape Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News is a Greater Manchester regional daily founded in 1868 and operated by Reach plc. Its coverage spans Manchester and surrounding boroughs such as Salford, Stockport, and Oldham, with local news, sport, traffic, and what's-on reporting. Reach introduced a digital subscription for selected premium articles while saying most daily news remains free. Catalog behavior is response-based: accessible public stories return body text; subscriber-only or upstream-blocked stories return an error rather than a partial teaser. Use the sections endpoint to discover current local routes, and store the returned section with each story so a council or neighbourhood update remains geographically attributable.
Call /men/sections before choosing a feed because it returns the current supported section slugs and upstream URLs.
Use /men/news for the freshest public headlines or /men/headlines with a returned local section.
Use /men/article with the canonical URL and /men/author for a public journalist profile.
FAQ
It is a regional daily focused on Greater Manchester, so use it for local reporting rather than treating it as a national UK news source.
The catalog’s section endpoint is the source of the current accepted paths and their public upstream URLs.
Reach plc lists the Manchester Evening News among its UK and Ireland local news brands.
Reach offers selected premium stories through the MEN digital subscription while most daily news remains free. Public stories return body text on success; subscriber-only or upstream-blocked stories return an error. Record the endpoint outcome instead of treating a headline as article text.