Indian city and national tracking
Use Times of India endpoints to turn indian city and national tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Times of India is Times Group's flagship Indian publication. Follow India, city, business, cricket, technology, entertainment, and lifestyle feeds through structured public feeds and article records for Indian city and national tracking.
Extract Indian national news, city editions, business, cricket, entertainment, and lifestyle from Times of India with structured article, section, headline.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Times of India",
"endpoint": "timesofindia-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/timesofindia/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Indian national news, city editions, business, cricket, entertainment, and lifestyle from Times of India with structured article, section, headline.
Use Times of India endpoints to turn indian city and national tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Times of India endpoints to turn times of india section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Times of India endpoints to turn article and byline research for india consumer, city, and national-news researchers into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Times of India endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Times of India endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those Times of India endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Times of India endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Times of India endpoints document their error responses (400, 403, 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 Times of India endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/timesofindia/article
/timesofindia/author
/timesofindia/headlines
/timesofindia/news
/timesofindia/sections
Endpoint catalog
/timesofindia/articleReturns public Times of India article metadata (title, author(s), published/updated dates, section, lead image) and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. A story gated behind a subscription returns a permission error instead of a truncated or fabricated body.
MCP tool timesofindia_article
/timesofindia/authorReturns a Times of India reporter's profile by `url`, a canonical `timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-<name>-<id>.cms` link: name, job title, organization, location, email, biography, headshot and recent articles with title and URL. Fields the profile page does not publish may be empty.
MCP tool timesofindia_author
/timesofindia/headlinesReturns the current headlines for one Times of India section or city edition. `section` is required, for example `top-stories`, `india`, `world`, `business`, `cricket`, `mumbai`, `delhi` or `bangalore`. Items carry the title and URL, plus summary, author, publication time and image when the outlet provides them.
MCP tool timesofindia_headlines
/timesofindia/newsReturns the current Times of India top stories. It takes no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time with its UTC offset, author and image URL. Use the headlines endpoint for a section or city edition.
MCP tool timesofindia_news
/timesofindia/sectionsLists the 55 Times of India sections that the headlines endpoint accepts, covering national and international topics such as `india`, `world`, `business` and `cricket`, and India city editions such as `mumbai`, `delhi` and `bangalore`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and the section feed `url`.
MCP tool timesofindia_sections
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How to scrape Times of India
The Times of India is the Times Group's flagship Indian publication, with national news, city editions, cricket, technology, entertainment, business, and lifestyle. Its breadth makes city context essential: a municipal announcement can sit beside a federal policy story and a nationwide celebrity item. Store the edition or section, then verify geography and topic from the article before counting coverage for a local market.
Call /timesofindia/sections to inspect the publisher's current taxonomy. Survey India, city, cricket, business, technology, and entertainment categories. Choose a city edition when the question concerns local services or commerce.
Use /timesofindia/headlines for a selected section and /timesofindia/news for the broader current stream. Collect current headlines by section and retain the original editorial label. A cricket tournament update should not be merged into a general local-news count.
Pass a canonical public URL to /timesofindia/article and use /timesofindia/author for the named contributor when available. Read the complete public article and contributor page, then capture the city, state, institution, or team actually discussed rather than relying on section placement alone.
Deduplicate stories by canonical URL, keep the collection date and publisher section, and retain the article's original publication time. For Indian city and national tracking, compare like editorial formats and geographic scopes rather than treating every item in the latest feed as equivalent.
FAQ
Yes, by collecting each relevant city feed on the same schedule and retaining the edition label. Normalize city names from article content and compare topic mix as well as volume; national stories may be syndicated across editions.
At minimum, retain canonical URL, section or edition, publication timestamp, author, and the geographic entity supported by the article. This keeps a city development separate from national reporting even when headlines use similar terms.
Use canonical article URLs to detect shared stories, retain each feed where the item appeared, and count the underlying report once when measuring unique articles. Keep appearances separately for distribution analysis.
No. Times Internet's only documented access routes are corporate licensing deals, its own publisher/ad-tech stack, and a ProQuest historical archive licensed to libraries for non-commercial research — there's no self-serve developer API for Times of India's own news content.