Northern California trend monitoring
Use SFGate endpoints to turn northern california trend monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
SFGate is a Hearst-owned Bay Area digital publication. Follow Bay Area, California, culture, travel, food, and outdoors coverage through structured public feeds and article records for Northern California trend monitoring.
Extract San Francisco and California local news, food, travel, culture, and outdoors reporting from SFGate with structured article, section, headline, news.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "SFGate",
"endpoint": "sfgate-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/sfgate/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract San Francisco and California local news, food, travel, culture, and outdoors reporting from SFGate with structured article, section, headline, news.
Use SFGate endpoints to turn northern california trend monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use SFGate endpoints to turn sfgate section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use SFGate endpoints to turn article and byline research for bay area businesses and california local researchers into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live SFGate endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented SFGate endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those SFGate endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 SFGate endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
SFGate 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 SFGate endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/sfgate/article
/sfgate/author
/sfgate/headlines
/sfgate/news
/sfgate/sections
Endpoint catalog
/sfgate/articleReturns public SFGATE article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Article pages are served through proxied browser renderers; the service does not bypass authentication or access controls, and marks paywalled=true when only a teaser is public.
MCP tool sfgate_article
/sfgate/authorReturns an SFGATE author's name, job title, biography, headshot, public profile links, and recent articles from a canonical author URL. Author pages are served through proxied browser renderers; the service does not bypass authentication or access controls.
MCP tool sfgate_author
/sfgate/headlinesReturns the latest SFGATE stories for one section. `section` is required and takes `top-news`, `bay-area`, `business-technology`, `entertainment`, `celebrity`, `food-dining`, `travel`, `routes`, `top-sports`, `giants`, `49ers` or `warriors`. Feeds hold 12 to 30 items, and the `warriors` feed is quiet in the off-season.
MCP tool sfgate_headlines
/sfgate/newsReturns the latest stories from SFGATE's Top News Stories feed: title, canonical URL, summary, author and publication time in UTC. Takes no parameters. The feed carries no images.
MCP tool sfgate_news
/sfgate/sectionsReturns the SFGATE feed inventory (Top News, Bay Area, Business and Technology, Entertainment, Celebrity, Food and Dining, Travel, Routes, Top Sports, Giants, 49ers, Warriors), each linking to its public RSS feed.
MCP tool sfgate_sections
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How to scrape SFGate
SFGate is Hearst's Bay Area digital publication, with a mix that reaches beyond San Francisco city hall into California travel, restaurants, culture, and outdoor life. A Bay Area market study can lose that distinction if every item is filed simply as local news. Keep the publisher's category and geography attached to each record, especially when comparing coverage of a city neighborhood with a statewide destination.
Call /sfgate/sections to inspect the publisher's current taxonomy. Browse the local, food, travel, and outdoors categories before choosing a feed; a restaurant opening and a hiking guide answer very different research questions.
Use /sfgate/headlines for a selected section and /sfgate/news for the broader current stream. Collect current stories from the selected beat and keep headline snapshots separate from article details, since a changing front page is a poor substitute for a topic history.
Pass a canonical public URL to /sfgate/article and use /sfgate/author for the named contributor when available. Resolve the canonical story and byline for a specific place or business. Preserve the location named in the piece rather than inferring that all SFGate coverage concerns San Francisco proper.
Deduplicate stories by canonical URL, keep the collection date and publisher section, and retain the article's original publication time. For Northern California trend monitoring, compare like editorial formats and geographic scopes rather than treating every item in the latest feed as equivalent.
FAQ
Yes. Start with its food coverage and retain the story URL, publisher category, date, and named location. Restaurant lists, reviews, and opening reports should remain distinct, because they carry different signals for a local business study.
SFGate covers trips and outdoor activities across California as well as Bay Area events. Use the section feed to identify the editorial setting, then classify the article from its own text; a travel recommendation should not be treated as a breaking municipal event.
Yes, but distinguish the place covered from the publisher's home region. A food guide may mention several neighborhoods, while a travel story may be elsewhere in California. Keep all explicit locations and the editorial format.