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FT API endpoint

Financial Times article content API

Returns one public Financial Times article's metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Subscriber-only articles that the FT serves as a subscription page are not available.

GETapiKey2 credits/requestFTft.articleResponseDoc/ft/article

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /ft/article
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: FT
Response schema: #/definitions/ft.articleResponseDoc

Financial Times API Try Financial Times article content API in Playground FT API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameter: required url, a canonical Financial Times article URL (e.g. https://www.ft.com/content/018aa34c-2498-4120-906b-5baf36e98c77). Query strings and fragments are stripped; the URL is canonicalized to https://www.ft.com.

Returns one public FT article's metadata — title, description, published_at, updated_at, section, authors, tags, image_url, word_count — plus its body paragraphs in order.

Behavior:

Subscriber-only articles that the FT serves as a subscription barrier return 403; a paywalled article is never returned as a hollow success. Challenge pages, malformed article documents, or selector/schema drift return 503 instead of being misclassified as paywalls.
An article that yields metadata but no body paragraphs is treated as parser drift and returns 503.
Non-article URLs and non-FT hosts return 400 before any upstream request.

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
url	string	Yes		Canonical FT article URL	https://www.ft.com/content/018aa34c-2498-4120-906b-5baf36e98c77
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes		API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/ft/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F018aa34c-2498-4120-906b-5baf36e98c77" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/018aa34c-2498-4120-906b-5baf36e98c77",
    "title": "Robotaxis are coming for important jobs",
    "description": "Taxi driving offers benefits that are not always obvious when you sit in the back seat",
    "published_at": "2026-09-20T04:00:11.638Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-20T04:00:12.000Z",
    "section": "Companies",
    "authors": [
      "Pilita Clark"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "Opinion"
    ],
    "image_url": "https://images.ft.com/example.jpg",
    "word_count": 737,
    "paragraphs": [
      "A large part of me cannot wait for robotaxis to take over.",
      "This is the part that sees a day when I have grown too feeble to drive but still have the wherewithal to summon a driverless car."
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/ft.articleResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Example
code	integer	No	200
data	ft.ArticleResponse	No
data.authors	array	No
data.description	string	No
data.image_url	string	No
data.paragraphs	array	No
data.published_at	string	No
data.section	string	No
data.tags	array	No
data.title	string	No
data.updated_at	string	No
data.url	string	No
data.word_count	integer	No
msg	string	No	OK

Failure responses

Status	Description	Schema
400	Bad Request	#/definitions/app.Response
403	Forbidden	#/definitions/app.Response
404	Not Found	#/definitions/app.Response
429	Too Many Requests	#/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/ft/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F018aa34c-2498-4120-906b-5baf36e98c77" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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FT API endpoint

Financial Times article content API

Returns one public Financial Times article's metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Subscriber-only articles that the FT serves as a subscription page are not available.

GETapiKey2 credits/requestFTft.articleResponseDoc/ft/article

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /ft/article
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: FT
Response schema: #/definitions/ft.articleResponseDoc

Financial Times API Try Financial Times article content API in Playground FT API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Returns one public FT article's metadata — title, description, published_at, updated_at, section, authors, tags, image_url, word_count — plus its body paragraphs in order.

Behavior:

Subscriber-only articles that the FT serves as a subscription barrier return 403; a paywalled article is never returned as a hollow success. Challenge pages, malformed article documents, or selector/schema drift return 503 instead of being misclassified as paywalls.
An article that yields metadata but no body paragraphs is treated as parser drift and returns 503.
Non-article URLs and non-FT hosts return 400 before any upstream request.

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
url	string	Yes		Canonical FT article URL	https://www.ft.com/content/018aa34c-2498-4120-906b-5baf36e98c77
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes		API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/ft/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F018aa34c-2498-4120-906b-5baf36e98c77" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/018aa34c-2498-4120-906b-5baf36e98c77",
    "title": "Robotaxis are coming for important jobs",
    "description": "Taxi driving offers benefits that are not always obvious when you sit in the back seat",
    "published_at": "2026-09-20T04:00:11.638Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-20T04:00:12.000Z",
    "section": "Companies",
    "authors": [
      "Pilita Clark"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "Opinion"
    ],
    "image_url": "https://images.ft.com/example.jpg",
    "word_count": 737,
    "paragraphs": [
      "A large part of me cannot wait for robotaxis to take over.",
      "This is the part that sees a day when I have grown too feeble to drive but still have the wherewithal to summon a driverless car."
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/ft.articleResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Example
code	integer	No	200
data	ft.ArticleResponse	No
data.authors	array	No
data.description	string	No
data.image_url	string	No
data.paragraphs	array	No
data.published_at	string	No
data.section	string	No
data.tags	array	No
data.title	string	No
data.updated_at	string	No
data.url	string	No
data.word_count	integer	No
msg	string	No	OK

Failure responses

Status	Description	Schema
400	Bad Request	#/definitions/app.Response
403	Forbidden	#/definitions/app.Response
404	Not Found	#/definitions/app.Response
429	Too Many Requests	#/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/ft/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F018aa34c-2498-4120-906b-5baf36e98c77" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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Financial Times article content API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

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Financial Times article content API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

Related