Bleacher Report API endpoint
Returns public Bleacher Report article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Bleacher Report serves full articles to anonymous readers, so no article is paywalled.
/bleacherreport/articleQuery parameter: url is a canonical HTTPS bleacherreport.com article URL of the form https://bleacherreport.com/articles/<id>-<slug>. Returns public metadata (title, description, publication and update times, section such as NFL or WWE, author, lead image) and the article body.
paragraphs holds the body text in reading order: paragraphs, plus the numbered headings of ranking and slideshow stories and the list items and quotes of older migrated stories. Photo captions, embedded posts and videos, and related-story cards are not included.
Bleacher Report serves full articles to anonymous readers, so no article is paywalled and paywalled is never set. Live blogs (/liveblogs/...), video pages, writer and team pages, and any page without a readable body are not supported and return an error rather than an empty article.
| Field | In the sample | Value in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| url | Has a value | bleacherreport.com |
| title | Has a value | 92 characters |
| description | Has a value | 242 characters |
| published_at | Has a value | 2026-09-24 |
| updated_at | Has a value | 2026-09-24 |
| section | Has a value | “MLB” |
| authors | Has a value | 1 entry |
| image_url | Has a value | gsp-image-cdn.wmsports.io |
| paragraphs | Has a value | 12 entries |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Bleacher Report article URL | https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25502441-vladimir-guerrero-jr-drops-viral-quote-2026-slump-after-signing-500m-blue-jays-contract | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/bleacherreport/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbleacherreport.com%2Farticles%2F25502441-vladimir-guerrero-jr-drops-viral-quote-2026-slump-after-signing-500m-blue-jays-contract" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25502441-example-headline",
"title": "Example headline",
"description": "Example description.",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T00:05:07Z",
"updated_at": "2026-09-24T00:13:36Z",
"section": "MLB",
"authors": [
"Example Writer"
],
"image_url": "https://gsp-image-cdn.wmsports.io/cms/prod/bleacher-report/example.jpg",
"paragraphs": [
"Example public paragraph."
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.articleResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.ArticleResponse | No | ||||
| data.authors | array | No | ||||
| data.description | string | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.paragraphs | array | No | ||||
| data.paywalled | boolean | No | Paywalled is true when the publisher serves only a teaser of this article to anonymous readers, so Paragraphs is a partial body rather than the full text. It is omitted when the full public body was returned. | |||
| data.published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.section | string | No | ||||
| data.title | string | No | ||||
| data.updated_at | string | No | ||||
| data.url | string | No |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/bleacherreport/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbleacherreport.com%2Farticles%2F25502441-vladimir-guerrero-jr-drops-viral-quote-2026-slump-after-signing-500m-blue-jays-contract" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"