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Daily Kos API endpoint
Daily Kos news API
Returns the current staff-written Daily Kos stories, about 10 items, each with title, URL, summary, publication time and author. Community stories and image URLs are left out because the site licenses them separately. Takes no parameters.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestDaily Kospublicnews.newsResponseDoc
Daily Kos/dailykos/newsEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /dailykos/news
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Daily Kos
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.newsResponseDoc
Live monitoring
- Monitored request
- GET /dailykos/news
- Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026
- 100%
- Median response time
- 1.59 s
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /dailykos/news
- Items in items
- 10
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 5
| Field | Filled in, of 10 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 10 | median 46 characters |
| url | 10 | dailykos.com |
| summary | 10 | median 43 characters |
| published_at | 10 | 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 10 |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/dailykos/news" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"items": [
{
"title": "Example staff story",
"url": "https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/28/800104871/news/example-story/",
"description": "A short public summary.",
"published_at": "2026-09-28T18:00:00Z",
"authors": [
"Example Author"
]
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.newsResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.NewsResponse | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | ||||
| data.items[].author | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].summary | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].type | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].url | string | No |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 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/dailykos/news" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"