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Chicago Tribune API endpoint
Chicago Tribune article API
Returns public Chicago Tribune article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. For subscriber-only articles the response carries the free lead-in with paywalled set to true.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestChicago Tribunepublicnews.articleResponseDoc
Chicago Tribune/chicagotribune/articleEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /chicagotribune/article
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Chicago Tribune
- Execution
- Managed browser rendering where the target needs it
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.articleResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: url is a canonical HTTPS article URL on chicagotribune.com or www.chicagotribune.com of the form /YYYY/MM/DD/<slug>/, e.g. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/24/gov-jb-pritzker-illinois-lawmakers-data-centers/. Section pages, author pages, the feed, and other hosts return an invalid-params error.
The endpoint returns public metadata (title, description, published_at, updated_at, section, authors, image_url) and the body paragraphs. Image captions are not included.
Paywall behavior: most stories are "metered" on the site (a reader-count wall drawn by the browser) but the full text is in the page an anonymous request receives, so paywalled is omitted and paragraphs holds the whole story. A minority of stories are subscriber-only: the server sends only the free lead-in, so paywalled is true and paragraphs holds just that lead-in (usually one paragraph). An example of a subscriber-only story is https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/13/illinois-pandemic-aid/. The set of subscriber-only stories changes over time.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/24/gov-jb-pritzker-illinois-lawmakers-data-centers","title":"Gov. JB Pritzker turns to Illinois lawmakers to act on data center regulations","published_at":"2026-09-24T23:06:36Z","section":"Politics","authors":["Olivia Olander"],"image_url":"https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/CTC-L-pritzker-blitz.jpg","paragraphs":["Gov. JB Pritzker said Thursday he isn't pursuing a moratorium on new data centers in Illinois."]}}
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /chicagotribune/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2F2026%2F09%2F24%2Fgov-jb-pritzker-illinois-lawmakers-data-centers%2F
- Fields returned with a value
- 9
| Field | In the sample | Value in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| url | Has a value | chicagotribune.com |
| title | Has a value | 78 characters |
| description | Has a value | 187 characters |
| published_at | Has a value | 2026-09-24 |
| updated_at | Has a value | 2026-09-24 |
| section | Has a value | “Politics” |
| authors | Has a value | 1 entry |
| image_url | Has a value | chicagotribune.com |
| paragraphs | Has a value | 17 entries |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Chicago Tribune article URL | https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/24/gov-jb-pritzker-illinois-lawmakers-data-centers/ | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/chicagotribune/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2F2026%2F09%2F24%2Fgov-jb-pritzker-illinois-lawmakers-data-centers%2F" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/24/gov-jb-pritzker-illinois-lawmakers-data-centers",
"title": "Gov. JB Pritzker turns to Illinois lawmakers to act on data center regulations",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T23:06:36Z",
"section": "Politics",
"authors": [
"Olivia Olander"
],
"image_url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/CTC-L-pritzker-blitz.jpg",
"paragraphs": [
"Gov. JB Pritzker said Thursday he isn't pursuing a moratorium on new data centers in Illinois."
]
}
}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 |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Code examples
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/chicagotribune/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2F2026%2F09%2F24%2Fgov-jb-pritzker-illinois-lawmakers-data-centers%2F" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"