Political scoop tracking
Use The Daily Beast endpoints to turn political scoop tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn The Daily Beast into structured JSON — full article bodies with author and section metadata, reporter profiles, headlines from any of its 77 named sections and subsections, and a live top-stories feed, all from canonical thedailybeast.com URLs.
Get The Daily Beast's political-scoop and entertainment articles, reporter profiles, section headlines, and top-stories feed 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": "The Daily Beast",
"endpoint": "thedailybeast-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/thedailybeast/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get The Daily Beast's political-scoop and entertainment articles, reporter profiles, section headlines, and top-stories feed as structured JSON.
Use The Daily Beast endpoints to turn political scoop tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live The Daily Beast endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented The Daily Beast endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those The Daily Beast endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 The Daily Beast endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
The Daily Beast 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 The Daily Beast 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.
/thedailybeast/article
/thedailybeast/author
/thedailybeast/headlines
/thedailybeast/news
/thedailybeast/sections
Endpoint catalog
/thedailybeast/articleReturns public The Daily Beast article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL.
MCP tool thedailybeast_article
/thedailybeast/authorReturns one The Daily Beast reporter's public profile: name, job title, biography, headshot, social link, and their recent articles, from a canonical author URL.
MCP tool thedailybeast_author
/thedailybeast/headlinesReturns fresh headlines from one public The Daily Beast category hub.
MCP tool thedailybeast_headlines
/thedailybeast/newsReturns fresh The Daily Beast stories from the public outbound RSS feed.
MCP tool thedailybeast_news
/thedailybeast/sectionsReturns the live public The Daily Beast category inventory (parent and child sections).
MCP tool thedailybeast_sections
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How to scrape The Daily Beast
Crawlora's Daily Beast endpoints read thedailybeast.com and return JSON for articles, reporter profiles, section headlines, and the site's live top-stories feed. The taxonomy runs deep — /thedailybeast/sections lists 77 section and subsection slugs, from top-level Politics and World down to three-level ones like arts-and-culture/royalist and obsessed/rating/skip. The live section endpoint is intermittently unreliable as of 2026-09-24 (some section slugs return a parser error rather than results), so treat /thedailybeast/news and /thedailybeast/article as the more dependable path to fresh content in the meantime.
/thedailybeast/sections returns every section and subsection slug the site publishes, nested up to three levels deep — e.g. politics/trumpland, obsessed/media/movies, scouted/new-kids-on-the-block — each with its name and canonical category URL.
/thedailybeast/headlines takes a section slug from that list and returns the current stories filed under it. As of 2026-09-24 some section slugs intermittently return a parser error rather than results — if that happens, fall back to /thedailybeast/news for fresh content.
/thedailybeast/article returns authors[], description, image_url, paragraphs[], published_at, section, title, and updated_at from a canonical article URL.
/thedailybeast/author reads a canonical /author/<slug>/ page and returns the reporter's name, job_title, a short bio, headshot image_url, and their recent articles.
/thedailybeast/news is the site's fastest-moving feed, mixing politics, Obsessed entertainment coverage, and Scouted product roundups, each with author, image_url, summary, published_at, title, and url.
FAQ
Three levels in places — for example obsessed/media/movies or arts-and-culture/royalist. /thedailybeast/sections returns all 77 slugs with their names and category URLs so you can pass any of them to /thedailybeast/headlines.
Yes. /thedailybeast/article returns an authors array alongside the section the story was filed under and both published_at and updated_at timestamps.
Yes. The Obsessed vertical (entertainment reviews, recaps, and celebrity news) and Politics are separate top-level sections with their own subsections in /thedailybeast/sections.
/thedailybeast/author returns the reporter's name, job_title, a bio, a headshot image_url, and a list of their recent articles, read from the site's own /author/<slug>/ pages.
Not always as of 2026-09-24 — some section slugs intermittently return a parser error. /thedailybeast/news and /thedailybeast/article are unaffected and are the more dependable path to fresh content in the meantime.