Deadline API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /deadline/article

Cost

2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/deadline/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2026%2F09%2Fexample-story-1237111140%2F" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use Deadline endpoints

Crawlora's Deadline endpoints read deadline.com and return JSON for articles, section headlines, authors, and the cross-section front page. Deadline runs 49 sections — far more granular than a typical trade outlet, down to Primetime Pilot Panic, Red Carpet Premieres, and Cancellations and Renewals — split across two RSS namespaces (deadline.com/category/<slug>/feed/ and deadline.com/v/<slug>/feed/ for verticals like TV, Film, and Awards). Headline bylines are raw WordPress usernames ("Tomt"), while the article endpoint resolves the same byline to a real name ("Tom Tapp") — fetch the article for a display-ready author name rather than the headlines feed's slug.

1. Step 1

   Choose among 48 section slugs

   /deadline/sections returns all 49 sections, split across two RSS namespaces — most under deadline.com/category/<slug>/feed/, verticals like tv, film, business, and awards under deadline.com/v/<slug>/feed/.

2. Step 2

   Read the acquisitions section (12 rows)

   /deadline/headlines takes a section slug and returns title, url, summary, image_url, published_at, and author — but that author field is a raw WordPress username slug (e.g. "Tomt") rather than a display name.

3. Step 3

   Open an article for a clean author name

   /deadline/article returns authors, image_url, a paragraphs array, section, published_at, and updated_at. The same byline that showed as "Tomt" on the headlines feed resolves here as "Tom Tapp" — the article endpoint, not headlines, is the source for a display-ready author name.

4. Step 4

   Read the front-page feed

   /deadline/news (no parameters) returns Deadline's front page mixed across sections — a single 2026-09-24 pull spanned TV, film, business, and awards coverage in one feed.

5. Step 5

   Verify the author slug before looping

   /deadline/author takes https://deadline.com/author/<slug>. Article authors[] are plain names, and the URL built from Matt Grobar (/author/matt-grobar, with and without a trailing slash) answered 404 Deadline author not found on 2026-10-30. Deadline's 48 section slugs (acquisitions, agencies, casting, festivals and more) each returned 12 stories with bylines, summaries and images, and the cross-section news route returned 12 as well.

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