Progressive commentary analysis
Use Salon endpoints to turn progressive commentary analysis into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Salon is a progressive US news and commentary magazine. Follow politics, culture, food, health, science, and opinion coverage through structured public feeds and article records for progressive commentary analysis.
Extract politics, culture, science, health, and long-form commentary from Salon with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Salon",
"endpoint": "salon-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/salon/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract politics, culture, science, health, and long-form commentary from Salon with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Use Salon endpoints to turn progressive commentary analysis into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Salon endpoints to turn salon section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Salon endpoints to turn article and byline research for culture researchers and us media analysts into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Salon endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Salon endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those Salon endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Salon endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Salon 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 Salon endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/salon/article
/salon/author
/salon/headlines
/salon/news
/salon/sections
Endpoint catalog
/salon/articleReturns a Salon article by canonical `url` on `www.salon.com` in the `/YYYY/MM/DD/<slug>/` form: title, description, section, authors, publication and update times, image, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag.
MCP tool salon_article
/salon/authorReturns a Salon writer's profile by canonical `url` (`https://www.salon.com/writer/<slug>`): name, `job_title`, `bio`, `image_url`, `same_as` links and a list of articles. Each article carries only a title and URL, with no date or category. Job title, photo and `same_as` appear only when the writer page shows them.
MCP tool salon_author
/salon/headlinesReturns the latest Salon stories for one section. `section` is required and takes one of 32 slugs, including `home`, `news-and-politics`, `politics`, `opinion`, `culture`, `science-and-health` and `technology`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time, author and image.
MCP tool salon_headlines
/salon/newsReturns Salon's latest top stories across the site. Takes no parameters, and `salon-headlines` narrows by section instead. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time, author and image.
MCP tool salon_news
/salon/sectionsLists the 32 Salon sections that `salon-headlines` accepts, from `home` and `news-and-politics` to `working_ahead`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and the section's feed `url`. The list includes older event slugs such as `oscars_2012` and `sxsw_2013`.
MCP tool salon_sections
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How to scrape Salon
Salon is a US progressive news and commentary magazine whose public editorial mix spans politics, culture, food, health, and science. A monitoring project should separate reported developments from analysis and opinion, because a contributor's interpretation is not the same thing as the underlying event. Its named sections and bylines supply the context needed to study how a topic moves from policy debate into cultural commentary.
Call /salon/sections to inspect the publisher's current taxonomy. Inspect politics, culture, and science separately; a story about public health may be framed as policy, research, or personal experience depending on its section.
Use /salon/headlines for a selected section and /salon/news for the broader current stream. Use the latest feed to find new pieces, then narrow to the relevant desk before measuring coverage. Store the headline as an editorial label, not a factual claim.
Pass a canonical public URL to /salon/article and use /salon/author for the named contributor when available. Retrieve article text and contributor metadata for commentary analysis. Keep the article's author and original URL so quotations can be checked against their source.
FAQ
Keep the publisher's section, article label, and byline with each record, then classify the individual piece. Do not assume every politics item is straight reporting or every culture item is opinion; the article itself gives the stronger evidence.
Politics alongside health or science can show how the same issue enters different editorial conversations. Use section headlines to build comparable dated samples and retrieve full pieces only for the themes you will code or quote.