Box office and deal tracking
Use Variety endpoints to turn box office and deal tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn Variety into structured JSON — full article bodies, author pages with a paginated history of every writer's bylines, headlines from any of its 24 trade sections, and a live top-stories feed, all from canonical variety.com URLs.
Get Variety's entertainment-industry articles, author profiles with paginated bylines, section headlines, and its trade-news feed as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Variety",
"endpoint": "variety-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/variety/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get Variety's entertainment-industry articles, author profiles with paginated bylines, section headlines, and its trade-news feed as structured JSON.
Use Variety endpoints to turn box office and deal tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Variety endpoints to turn awards-season coverage into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Variety endpoints to turn trade-press monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Variety endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 10 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Variety endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
10 request parameters are documented across those Variety endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Variety endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Variety 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 Variety 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.
/variety/article
/variety/author
/variety/headlines
/variety/news
/variety/sections
Endpoint catalog
/variety/articleReturns public Variety article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL.
MCP tool variety_article
/variety/authorReturns one Variety author's public profile: name, biography, social links, and one page of their recent articles.
MCP tool variety_author
/variety/headlinesReturns fresh Variety headlines from one public vertical RSS feed.
MCP tool variety_headlines
/variety/newsReturns fresh Variety top stories from the public RSS feed.
MCP tool variety_news
/variety/sectionsReturns the public Variety vertical taxonomy used by the headlines endpoint.
MCP tool variety_sections
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How to scrape Variety
Crawlora's Variety endpoints read variety.com and return JSON for articles, author pages, section headlines, and the trade paper's top-stories feed across 24 desks — Film, TV, Music, Biz, Awards, Streaming, Theater, Global, and more. Pulled live on 2026-09-24, the Film section returned 10 fresh stories, from a Tokyo Film Festival jury appointment to Harvey Weinstein's 15-year sentencing, and the author endpoint can page through a writer's full byline history rather than returning just a handful of recent pieces.
/variety/sections returns all 24 section feed slugs Variety publishes under — artisans, awards, biz, data, digital, dirt, film, gaming, global, legit, music, politics, scene, shopping, sports, streaming, theater, tune-in, tv, video, vintage, vip, vivant, and voices.
/variety/headlines takes one of those slugs and returns the newest stories filed there. The Film desk returned 10 items in a single pull, each with author, image_url, summary, published_at, title, and url.
/variety/article returns authors[], image_url, paragraphs[], published_at, title, updated_at, and url from a canonical story URL.
/variety/author accepts a slug, a canonical author URL, or both plus a page number, and returns the writer's name, biography, social links, and a paginated articles list flagged with has_next_page.
/variety/news is Variety's site-wide top-stories feed, mixing film, TV, and music-business coverage.
FAQ
Yes. /variety/author supports pagination via a page parameter and returns has_next_page, so you can walk a writer's entire byline history rather than only their latest pieces.
Any of the 24 returned by /variety/sections, including narrower ones like Artisans (below-the-line crafts), Legit (theater), Dirt (real estate), and VIP+ (Variety's subscription analysis vertical).
It returns authors, image_url, paragraphs, published_at, title, updated_at, and url; unlike some of Crawlora's other news endpoints it doesn't echo back a separate section field, so track the section from whichever /variety/headlines call surfaced the URL.
A single pull of /variety/news returned stories published within a roughly four-hour window, mixing breaking trade news with reviews and features.