Engadget API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /engadget/headlines

Cost

1 credit/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/engadget/headlines?section=ai" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use Engadget endpoints

Engadget's public category structure supports product and platform research without merging hands-on or gaming-review material into general technology news. Engadget's topics include AI, Apple, apps, Best Tech, Big Tech, computing, cybersecurity, entertainment, gaming, and gaming reviews. Its 2026-09-26 AI feed covered OpenAI-agent testing and Microsoft Copilot changes. Choose the product or subject feed before collecting article bodies, then keep its topic, publish time, author, and URL for later comparison. A hands-on device review or buying guide should retain that format label instead of becoming another breaking technology headline. A pull on 2026-10-27 listed 48 sections; ai returned 20 stories over eight days and the news route returned 20 over ten hours. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 48-slug section list and the cross-section feed.

1. Step 1

   Choose among 48 categories

   The sections route lists categories such as ai, gaming, apple, cybersecurity, space, xbox, smartphone-reviews, laptop-pc-reviews and transportation-evs. Other values return an invalid-parameter error.

2. Step 2

   Accept short categories

   Small categories, such as buying guides, may hold fewer items, so a short response is not a failure.

3. Step 3

   Engadget bodies are free and short

   Engadget articles are free to read and return authors[], description, image_url, paragraphs[], published_at and updated_at, with no section field. A 2026-10-30 sample had 4 paragraphs (about 1,800 characters), so keep the slug you queried.

4. Step 4

   Know the fixed author batch

   The author route returns name, biography, expertise, social links and the latest stories on the page, a single fixed batch with no further pagination.

5. Step 5

   Compare windows

   ai ran from 2026-10-18 23:30 UTC to 2026-10-26 17:13, while the news route ran from 2026-10-26 14:45 to 2026-10-27 00:30, with byline, summary and image (19 of 20).

6. Step 6

   Expect occasional section failures

   A narrow slug such as nintendo returned an upstream error on the same pull, so retry before treating a slug as empty.

7. Step 7

   Choose among 48 slugs by window

   Engadget lists 48 slugs. On 2026-10-30 ai returned 20 headlines from 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-29 and amazon 20 from 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-28, so equal row counts cover very different time spans; compare published_at before scheduling.

8. Step 8

   Treat the 20-story strip as a half-day sample

   The cross-section news route returned 20 stories from 2026-10-29 08:33 to 22:52 UTC with bylines, summaries and images on every story, about fourteen hours of output.

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