CNET API endpoint
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.
/cnet/headlinesQuery parameter: section is required and must be one of 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, services-and-software, sleep, smart-home, social-media, space, sports, tech, tech-industry, tv-and-movies, watercraft, yard-and-outdoors. Use cnet-sections to list them with display names. Invalid values return a 400 error.
| Field | Filled in, of 19 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 19 | median 70 characters |
| url | 19 | cnet.com |
| summary | 19 | median 100 characters |
| published_at | 19 | 2019-09-14 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 19 |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | CNET topic slug Allowed values: 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, services-and-software, sleep, smart-home, social-media, space, sports, tech, tech-industry, tv-and-movies, watercraft, yard-and-outdoors. | ai | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/cnet/headlines?section=ai" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "tech",
"items": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/example-article",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T03:55:36Z"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.HeadlinesResponse | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under CNET top stories API. | |||
| data.section | string | No |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/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/cnet/headlines?section=ai" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"