Consumer technology purchase research
Use Tom's Guide endpoints to turn consumer technology purchase research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Tom's Guide is Future's consumer-tech buying-guide publication. Follow phones, computing, home, fitness, streaming, reviews, and deals through structured public feeds and article records for consumer technology purchase research.
Extract technology buying advice, deals, home technology, fitness, streaming, and mobile coverage from Tom's Guide with structured article, section, headline.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Tom's Guide",
"endpoint": "tomsguide-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/tomsguide/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract technology buying advice, deals, home technology, fitness, streaming, and mobile coverage from Tom's Guide with structured article, section, headline.
Use Tom's Guide endpoints to turn consumer technology purchase research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Tom's Guide endpoints to turn tom's guide section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Tom's Guide endpoints to turn article and byline research for consumer-tech and commerce-content teams into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Tom's Guide endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 10 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Tom's Guide endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
10 request parameters are documented across those Tom's Guide endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Tom's Guide endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Tom's Guide 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 Tom's Guide endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/tomsguide/article
/tomsguide/author
/tomsguide/headlines
/tomsguide/news
/tomsguide/sections
Endpoint catalog
/tomsguide/articleReturns one Tom's Guide article by `url`, a canonical HTTPS `tomsguide.com` link such as `tomsguide.com/<section>/<slug>`. The response has the title, description, section, authors, publication and update times, image URL, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag. On some product reviews `authors` may be empty.
MCP tool tomsguide_article
/tomsguide/authorReturns a Tom's Guide author's name, job title, biography, social links and one page of recent articles. Give exactly one of `slug` or `url`; `page` is 1-based, defaults to 1 and overrides any page in `url`. The response also has `page` and `has_next_page`.
MCP tool tomsguide_author
/tomsguide/headlinesReturns the current headlines for one Tom's Guide section. `section` is required and takes one of 22 slugs, such as `ai`, `audio`, `deals`, `how-to`, `news`, `reviews`, `tvs` or `phones`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image.
MCP tool tomsguide_headlines
/tomsguide/newsReturns the current top stories from Tom's Guide. It takes no parameters. Each item has its title, URL and, where available, a summary, author, publication time, image URL and `type`. Use the headlines endpoint to read one section.
MCP tool tomsguide_news
/tomsguide/sectionsLists the 22 top-level Tom's Guide content verticals that the headlines endpoint accepts, such as `ai`, `best-picks`, `how-to`, `mattresses`, `reviews`, `vehicle-tech` and `phones`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and a `url`.
MCP tool tomsguide_sections
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How to scrape Tom's Guide
Tom's Guide is Future's consumer-technology buying-guide publication, covering phones, computing, home devices, fitness, streaming, deals, and reviews. A recommendation article is different from a product announcement or a temporary discount. For purchase research, keep device model, editorial format, market, and publication date together; otherwise an old deal or a broad buying guide can be mistaken for a current tested verdict.
Call /tomsguide/sections to inspect the publisher's current taxonomy. Find phone, home, streaming, fitness, review, or deal sections according to the buyer question. One product can appear in several formats with different evidence.
Use /tomsguide/headlines for a selected section and /tomsguide/news for the broader current stream. Collect category headlines and label a hands-on review, buying guide, how-to, and sale article separately before comparing brands or models.
Pass a canonical public URL to /tomsguide/article and use /tomsguide/author for the named contributor when available. Read the full article and author details for testing context, stated limitations, and product version. Preserve quoted prices with their original date and retailer.
FAQ
Yes, after classifying the source article. Compare tested reviews with tested reviews and record the exact model and configuration; a guide placement or deal headline alone does not mean two devices were assessed under the same criteria.
Treat them as dated editorial records. Save the published or updated time, merchant, market, and quoted offer, then confirm the current price at the retailer before showing it to buyers.
No. Keep an editorial ranking attributed to the guide, with date and selection criteria, while recording measured test results only when the source supplies a method and exact device configuration.