US news monitoring
Use NPR endpoints to turn us news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn npr.org's public navigation, RSS headline feed, section archives, and article pages into normalized JSON for US news and public-radio content monitoring.
Get NPR's section navigation, site-wide headlines, section archives, and full public article content as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
0
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "NPR",
"endpoint": "npr-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/npr/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get NPR's section navigation, site-wide headlines, section archives, and full public article content as structured JSON.
Use NPR endpoints to turn us news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use NPR endpoints to turn public-radio content aggregation into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use NPR endpoints to turn editorial research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live NPR endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented NPR endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Categories, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those NPR endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 NPR endpoints carry a documented response schema, so the JSON shape is known before you write any parsing code.
NPR 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 NPR 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.
/npr/article
/npr/author
/npr/categories
/npr/headlines
/npr/topic
Endpoint catalog
/npr/articleReturns a public NPR article's metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL.
MCP tool npr_article
/npr/authorReturns an NPR author's byline metadata, biography, and recent articles from a canonical author URL.
MCP tool npr_author
/npr/categoriesReturns NPR's current public section navigation. Use a returned slug directly as the topic parameter on npr-topic.
MCP tool npr_categories
/npr/headlinesReturns fresh headlines from NPR's public, site-wide RSS feed.
MCP tool npr_headlines
/npr/topicReturns the newest public NPR stories from one section archive page. topic is a section slug; use npr-categories for the current value space.
MCP tool npr_topic
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How to scrape NPR
NPR is a nonprofit owned by its member stations, and it has run without federal Corporation for Public Broadcasting money since Congress rescinded $1.1 billion in CPB funding in 2025. None of that changes what's public on npr.org: a 2026-09-24 categories pull returned 22 sections, from Technology and Climate to niche verticals like All Songs Considered, and that day's technology archive held 23 stories running back to 2026-09-09. Crawlora's five NPR endpoints read all of it as normalized JSON.
Call /npr/categories for npr.org's live navigation — a 2026-09-24 pull returned 22 sections mixing hard-news beats like Politics and Economy with narrower verticals like Children's Health. Every slug works directly as the topic parameter on /npr/topic.
Call /npr/headlines for NPR's site-wide feed. Each item carries a byline as plain text, not a link, plus a Z-suffixed timestamp, e.g. 2026-09-24T11:10:14Z.
Pass a slug from /npr/categories to /npr/topic for that section's own archive. technology returned 23 stories on 2026-09-24, oldest from 2026-09-09 — coverage dominated by AI-safety stories, from Anthropic's IPO push to Trump downplaying slowdown warnings.
Pass a canonical npr.org article URL to /npr/article for its metadata and body paragraphs. The article endpoint's published_at carries a UTC offset (2026-09-24T05:00:00-04:00) while /npr/headlines returns a Z-suffixed timestamp for the same field — the two don't share a format.
Pass a canonical npr.org/people/<id>/<slug> URL to /npr/author for that reporter's bio and recent articles — one 2026-09-24 pull returned 25 pieces spanning 2025-12-12 through 2026-09-24. That URL isn't in the headlines or topic payloads, so resolve it from search or a byline link first.
FAQ
Call /npr/categories first. A 2026-09-24 pull returned 22 sections, and any slug it lists — technology, climate, economy, even something as narrow as global-health — works directly as the topic value.
No. Passing technology on 2026-09-24 returned 23 stories reaching back to 2026-09-09, a 15-day archive rather than a rolling same-day cutoff.
Yes. Losing federal Corporation for Public Broadcasting support hasn't put npr.org behind a paywall; headlines, section archives, and articles stay fully public, so these endpoints need only a Crawlora API key.
A canonical npr.org/people/<id>/<slug> URL. That URL isn't included in the headlines or topic payloads — bylines there are plain names — so it has to be resolved from an article page or a search first.