GET/cnet/articleapiKey2 credits/request
Returns public CNET article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. CNET articles are freely readable; video-only pages and pages without an article body are reported as upstream errors rather than returned empty.
Required: url.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “AI, VR/AR Productivity, Wearables”; url: cnet.com; title: 75 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 177 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-24; image_url: cnet.com.
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GET/cnet/authorapiKey2 credits/request
Returns one CNET author's public profile: name, role, biography, areas of expertise, social links, and one page of their recent articles.
Optional: slug, url, page.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 5 items. Filled in every item: title, url, type, summary, published_at, author, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-07; url: cnet.com; title: median 84 characters; summary: median 123 characters; image_url: cnet.com.
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GET/cnet/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request
Returns fresh CNET headlines for one topic. `section` is required and takes a topic slug such as `ai`, `deals`, `smart-home`, `electric-vehicles` or `tv-and-movies`; an invalid value returns a 400 error. Each item has a title and URL, and may also carry a summary, author, publication time and image.
Required: section (51 allowed values, including ai, aircraft, auto-tech, automobiles, biology, car-accessories, car-apps, car-industry, car-news, climate, computing, culture, deals, electric-vehicles, energy-and-utilities, entertainment, fashion, fitness, gaming, health, home, home-entertainment, internet, kitchen-and-household, live-blog, medical, mental, mobile, motorcycles, news, nutrition, parenting, personal-care, personal-finance, personal-mobility, privacy, rideshare, roadshow, science, security).
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 19 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author. In the sample: published_at: 2019-09-14 to 2026-10-13; url: cnet.com; title: median 70 characters; summary: median 100 characters.
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GET/cnet/newsapiKey1 credit/request
Returns the latest CNET top stories, with no input needed. Each item has a title, canonical URL, summary, publication time and author name when CNET provides them.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 25 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author. In the sample: published_at: 2025-10-11 to 2026-10-13; url: cnet.com; title: median 70 characters; summary: median 90 characters.
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GET/cnet/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request
Lists the 51 CNET topics accepted by `cnet-headlines`: top-level and second-level topics with a recently updated feed, plus `ai`, `deals` and `tv-and-movies`. Each has a `slug`, a display `name` and the feed `url`. Deeper sub-topics are not separate sections; `internet` means Home Internet and `security` means Home Security.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 51 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “AI” and 50 other values; url: cnet.com.
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