News monitoring
Use NBC News endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn NBC News' public RSS sections, site-wide feed, and article pages into normalized JSON for US news monitoring.
Get NBC News's RSS section list, section and site-wide headlines, and full public article content 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": "NBC News",
"endpoint": "nbc-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/nbc/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get NBC News's RSS section list, section and site-wide headlines, and full public article content as structured JSON.
Use NBC News endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live NBC News endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented NBC News endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those NBC News endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 NBC 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.
NBC News 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 NBC 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
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/nbc/article
/nbc/author
/nbc/headlines
/nbc/news
/nbc/sections
Endpoint catalog
/nbc/articleReturns public NBC News article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. This does not bypass login, subscription, or other access controls.
MCP tool nbc_article
/nbc/authorReturns an NBC News author's byline metadata (job title, bio, social links) and their recent articles from a canonical author URL.
MCP tool nbc_author
/nbc/headlinesReturns fresh headlines from one public NBC News RSS section. Use nbc-sections for the current value space.
MCP tool nbc_headlines
/nbc/newsReturns fresh NBC News top stories from the public site-wide RSS feed.
MCP tool nbc_news
/nbc/sectionsReturns the exact live-verified public RSS section slugs accepted by nbc-headlines.
MCP tool nbc_sections
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How to scrape NBC News
NBC News sits inside Comcast's NBCUniversal, which kept the broadcast news division when it spun its cable networks, including CNBC and MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), off into Versant in January 2026. NBC News publishes seven RSS sections, and its site-wide feed isn't recency-capped the way you'd expect: a 2026-09-24 pull mixed same-day breaking news with evergreen Select shopping posts dated years apart. These endpoints cover sections, that feed, per-section headlines, articles, and author pages.
Call /nbc/sections for the seven RSS slugs /nbc/headlines accepts — news, world, us-news, politics, business, science, and health.
Call /nbc/news for NBC's public feed. A 2026-09-24 pull returned 23 items, mostly same-day politics and world stories, but also a Select shopping post on mouse traps dated 2025-09-02 and an Amazon Prime benefits roundup dated all the way back to 2021 — evergreen commerce content sits in the same feed as breaking news.
Pass a slug from /nbc/sections to /nbc/headlines. Scoped to science on the same pull, it returned 24 items spanning nearly three months, not capped to the last few days the way the site-wide feed's breaking items are.
Pass an nbcnews.com URL containing an -rcna<number> id to /nbc/article for metadata and body paragraphs. The paragraphs come from the story body itself: a 2026-09-24 pull of a politics story on the White House press-access ruling returned 46 paragraphs, while a Select gift guide returned 44.
Pass a full canonical nbcnews.com/author/ URL, including its numeric -ncpn suffix, to /nbc/author for job details, bio, social links, and recent articles. A guessed URL without that suffix failed outright, naming the required pattern; the correct URL returned a populated bio and recent bylines.
FAQ
No — see the two evergreen Select posts above. Don't assume every /nbc/news item is fresh; filter by published_at if recency matters to your use case.
Yes. Select guides use the same -rcna<number> article URLs as news stories, and a 2026-09-24 test on a self-care gift guide returned its full 44-paragraph body. They also show up in the /nbc/news feed, so filter by URL path if you only want news.
A full canonical nbcnews.com/author/<slug>-ncpn<id> URL — a plain author-name guess without the numeric suffix returns a format error rather than a lookup miss. Pull the author URL from a byline link rather than constructing one from the name alone.
Seven: news, world, us-news, politics, business, science, and health. Science isn't tightly capped — a live section pull returned 24 items spanning nearly three months back to late June.
Comcast, through NBCUniversal. The cable networks CNBC and MS NOW went to the separately listed Versant in January 2026, but NBC News stayed with NBCUniversal. None of its public sections or articles require a subscription.