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Daily Mail API endpoint
Daily Mail article API
Returns one Daily Mail article by its canonical `url`, which must contain an `article-<id>` path segment. The response has the title, description, publish and update times, section, authors, lead image, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestDaily Mailpublicnews.articleResponseDoc
Daily Mail/dailymail/articleEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /dailymail/article
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Daily Mail
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.articleResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: url is a canonical HTTPS Daily Mail article URL containing an article-<id> path segment. Returns public metadata and body paragraphs.
Live monitoring
- Monitored request
- GET /dailymail/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-16147249%2FPresley-Gerber-son-supermodel-Cindy-Crawford-death.html
- Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026
- 99.9%
- Median response time
- 5.35 s
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /dailymail/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-16147249%2FPresley-Gerber-son-supermodel-Cindy-Crawford-death.html
- Fields returned with a value
- 8
| Field | In the sample | Value in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| url | Has a value | dailymail.co.uk |
| title | Has a value | 136 characters |
| description | Has a value | 185 characters |
| published_at | Has a value | 2026-09-21 |
| updated_at | Has a value | 2026-09-21 |
| authors | Has a value | 1 entry |
| image_url | Has a value | i.dailymail.com |
| paragraphs | Has a value | 59 entries |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Daily Mail article URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234567/example.html | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/dailymail/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-1234567%2Fexample.html" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234567/example.html",
"title": "Example article",
"paragraphs": [
"Example public paragraph."
]
}
}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/dailymail/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-1234567%2Fexample.html" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"