National news monitoring
Use USA Today endpoints to turn national news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn USA Today into structured JSON — full article bodies that track both publish and revision times, staff writer profiles, headlines from any of its 13 national sections, and a live top-stories feed, all from canonical usatoday.com URLs.
Get USA Today article content with revision history, staff writer profiles, section headlines, and the national top-stories feed as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
0
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "USA Today",
"endpoint": "usatoday-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/usatoday/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get USA Today article content with revision history, staff writer profiles, section headlines, and the national top-stories feed as structured JSON.
Use USA Today endpoints to turn national news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live USA Today endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented USA Today endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those USA Today endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 USA Today endpoints carry a documented response schema, so the JSON shape is known before you write any parsing code.
USA Today 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 USA Today 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.
/usatoday/article
/usatoday/author
/usatoday/headlines
/usatoday/news
/usatoday/sections
Endpoint catalog
/usatoday/articleReturns one normal USA Today article's public metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Video, gallery, and other non-article routes are not supported.
MCP tool usatoday_article
/usatoday/authorReturns one USA Today staff writer's public profile: name, bio, social accounts, and their recent articles, from a canonical staff page URL.
MCP tool usatoday_author
/usatoday/headlinesReturns the newest items from one top-level USA Today section, filtered from the same public news feed as /usatoday/news.
MCP tool usatoday_headlines
/usatoday/newsReturns the newest window of USA Today's public news feed: title, canonical URL, publication and update times, and the lead image when USA Today publishes one.
MCP tool usatoday_news
/usatoday/sectionsLists every top-level USA Today section accepted by /usatoday/headlines, with its slug, display name, and landing-page URL.
MCP tool usatoday_sections
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How to scrape USA Today
Crawlora's USA Today endpoints read usatoday.com and return JSON for articles, staff profiles, section headlines, and the paper's national top-stories feed across all 13 of its sections — News, Sports, Entertainment, Life, Money, Tech, Travel, Opinion, Cars, Shopping, Weather, Politics, and Grocery. USA Today revises stories heavily after publication: a Sept. 22 MLB playoff-picture story pulled live on 2026-09-24 still carried a published_at nearly two days earlier than its updated_at, a gap the API surfaces on every article and headline.
/usatoday/sections returns all 13 top-level sections with their name, slug, and canonical usatoday.com URL.
/usatoday/headlines takes one of those 13 slugs — sports, tech, money, and so on — and returns the newest items filed under it, each with title, url, image_url, published_at, and updated_at.
/usatoday/article returns authors[], description, image_url, is_accessible_for_free, paragraphs[], published_at, section, title, and updated_at from a canonical story URL.
/usatoday/author reads a canonical staff page and returns the writer's name, bio, social accounts, and recent articles.
/usatoday/news is the paper's site-wide top-stories feed, mixing national news, sports, and entertainment, each carrying both published_at and updated_at so you can detect revisions.
FAQ
USA Today revises stories — especially sports and breaking news — well after they first go live. One playoff-picture story kept its original published_at from two days earlier while updated_at reflected a same-morning revision, and this pattern shows up across most headline items, not just articles.
Any of the 13 returned by /usatoday/sections: news, sports, entertainment, life, money, tech, travel, opinion, cars, shopping, weather, politics, and grocery.
Yes. /usatoday/article returns an is_accessible_for_free boolean alongside the body, so you can tell free stories apart from subscriber-only ones before processing the paragraphs.
Pulling the sports section returned stories published within the same hour as the request, alongside injury-report items updated multiple times per day during the NFL season.