CBS News API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /cbsnews/article

Cost

2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/cbsnews/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fexample-article-slug%2F" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use CBS News endpoints

Crawlora's CBS News endpoints read cbsnews.com and return JSON for articles, section headlines, and authors. CBS News exposes 10 sections, each backed by a cbsnews.com/latest/rss/<slug> feed — main, us, world, politics, moneywatch, health, entertainment, science, technology, space. The technology feed isn't trimmed to a short recency window: a 2026-09-23 pull returned 20 items spanning back to 2026-06-24. CBS News timestamps carry an explicit UTC offset (e.g. -0400) rather than a Z suffix, and a story's headline on /cbsnews/headlines can differ slightly from its canonical title on /cbsnews/article — CBS revises display titles after a story ships.

1. Step 1

   Choose among 10 section slugs

   /cbsnews/sections returns 10 sections — main (top stories), us, world, politics, moneywatch, health, entertainment, science, technology, space — each backed by its own cbsnews.com/latest/rss/<slug> feed.

2. Step 2

   Pull main: 12 rows over 7 hours

   /cbsnews/headlines takes a section slug and returns title, url, summary, and published_at. The technology feed isn't recency-capped — a 2026-09-23 pull still returned an item dated back to 2026-06-24 alongside same-day stories.

3. Step 3

   Parse a 14-paragraph body

   /cbsnews/article returns authors, description, image_url, a paragraphs array, section, published_at, and updated_at — timestamps use an explicit offset like -0400 rather than a Z suffix. The article's title can differ slightly from the headline shown on /cbsnews/headlines for the same story, since CBS sometimes tweaks the display title after publishing.

4. Step 4

   A name-derived team URL worked here

   /cbsnews/author takes https://www.cbsnews.com/team/<slug>/ (not /author/). Article authors[] are plain names, and the URL built from Taurean Small (/team/taurean-small/) opened on 2026-10-30 with name, biography, image_url, social_links and 13 recent articles. The cross-section news route had 12 stories with summaries but no bylines or images, and the main headlines section returned the same 12.

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