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Game Rant API Documentation

Collect Game Rant headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Games, guides, and reviews. 5 endpoints documented below.

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First request

Endpoint: GET /gamerant/headlines
Cost: 1 credit/request

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

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How to use Game Rant endpoints

Game Rant's public article and section data can support a gaming corpus that retains the difference between a guide, review, list, and news report. Use franchise and release coverage to discover what is being discussed, but keep evergreen walkthroughs and explainers out of launch-volume counts unless their update date changes. Fetch article details for platform, version, and publish time; a guide may remain useful for years while an announcement quickly becomes stale. Keep the headline, format, game title, byline, and canonical URL so a release timeline does not mistake utility content for new reporting. The 2026-10-27 sections route listed 178 slugs, and the same 10-story window covered either 2.5 hours or five months depending on the slug.

Step 1
Pick from 178 section slugs
The sections route lists 178 Game Rant slugs: platforms (pc-news, ps5-news, nintendo-switch-news), franchises (fortnite-news, pokemon-news, fallout-news), anime and game-reviews. Franchise slugs make a clean per-game monitor.
Step 2
Skip video items for article extraction
Headline items from video sections have type video and cannot be read through the article route. Filter on type before queuing article calls.
Step 3
Use the story URL form and the news list
Article calls take a https://gamerant.com/<slug>/ URL; section hubs, video pages and author pages are rejected. The news route returns about 10 latest stories, with co-authors joined by a comma.
Step 4
Author URLs are /author/<slug>/ without pagination
The author route takes a /author/<slug>/ URL and returns name, title, image, biography, social links and about 20 latest articles. Paginated author URLs are rejected. Game Rant lists 178 slugs (games, gaming, pc-news, steam-news, xbox-news, anime-news, nintendo-news), the most of any outlet in this group, and on 2026-10-30 games returned 10 headlines of which 7 were in the 10-story strip.
Step 5
Match the polling rate to the slug
The games slug returned 10 stories from 2026-10-26 21:31 UTC to 2026-10-27 00:05, about 2.5 hours, while apex-legends-news returned 10 stories spread from 2026-04-06 to 2026-09-15. A fixed interval would miss stories on the first and re-fetch stale ones on the second.
Step 6
Use the game-specific slugs as a franchise index
Among the 178 slugs are pc-news, steam-news, core-news, xbox-news and xbox-series-xs-news alongside franchise slugs like apex-legends-news. Each story carried a byline, summary and image.

Publisher sources

Game Rant — publisher site

Game Rant API endpoints

GET/gamerant/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get Game Rant article content

Returns one Game Rant article by its `https://gamerant.com/<slug>/` `url`. The response has the title, description, publish and update times, section, authors, lead image and body `paragraphs`. Section hubs, video pages and author pages are rejected as invalid parameters; `paywalled` is set only if the page declares the article not free.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Video Games”; url: gamerant.com; title: 59 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 150 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-24; image_url: static0.gamerantimages.com.

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GET/gamerant/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get a Game Rant author profile

Returns a Game Rant author profile for a `url` of the form `https://gamerant.com/author/<slug>/`. The response has the name, title, image, biography, `social_links` (type and URL) and about 20 latest articles. Paginated author URLs are rejected, so older articles are not available.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, image_url. In the sample: url: gamerant.com; title: median 64 characters; summary: median 135 characters; image_url: static0.gamerantimages.com.

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GET/gamerant/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get Game Rant section headlines

Returns fresh headlines from one public Game Rant RSS section. Items from video sections have type video and are not readable through the article endpoint.

Required: section (178 allowed values, including games, gaming, pc-news, steam-news, core-news, xbox-series-xs-news, xbox-news, xbox-one-news, platforms, lists, strategy-guide, anime, anime-news, nintendo-news, legend-of-zelda-news, originals, features, gaming-features, exclusives, ps5-news, bethesda-news, playstation-news, pokemon-news, animal-crossing-news, activision-news, call-of-duty-news, grand-theft-auto-news, epic-games-store-news, nintendo-switch-news, fortnite-news, one-piece-news, anime-editorial, diablo-news, pokemon-go-news, mobile-news, ios-news, android-news, tabletop, dc-news, mortal-kombat-news).

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-13; url: gamerant.com; title: median 56 characters; summary: median 131 characters; image_url: static0.gamerantimages.com.

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GET/gamerant/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Game Rant top stories

Lists the latest Game Rant stories, about 10 items. Each item has its title, canonical URL, summary, publish time, author names (co-authors are joined with a comma) and lead image. Takes no parameters.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-13; url: gamerant.com; title: median 53 characters; summary: median 114 characters; image_url: static0.gamerantimages.com.

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GET/gamerant/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Game Rant RSS sections

Lists the 178 Game Rant section slugs accepted by `gamerant-headlines`, covering platforms (`pc-news`, `ps5-news`, `nintendo-switch-news`), franchises (`fortnite-news`, `pokemon-news`, `fallout-news`), `anime` and `game-reviews`. Each entry has the `slug`, `name` and feed `url`.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 178 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “Video Games” and 177 other values; url: gamerant.com.

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Game Rant API Documentation

Collect Game Rant headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Games, guides, and reviews. 5 endpoints documented below.

Try Get Game Rant section headlines Start with endpoint docs Pricing

First request

Endpoint: GET /gamerant/headlines
Cost: 1 credit/request

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

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Game Rant scraping API

How to use Game Rant endpoints

Step 1
Pick from 178 section slugs
The sections route lists 178 Game Rant slugs: platforms (pc-news, ps5-news, nintendo-switch-news), franchises (fortnite-news, pokemon-news, fallout-news), anime and game-reviews. Franchise slugs make a clean per-game monitor.
Step 2
Skip video items for article extraction
Headline items from video sections have type video and cannot be read through the article route. Filter on type before queuing article calls.
Step 3
Use the story URL form and the news list
Article calls take a https://gamerant.com/<slug>/ URL; section hubs, video pages and author pages are rejected. The news route returns about 10 latest stories, with co-authors joined by a comma.
Step 4
Author URLs are /author/<slug>/ without pagination
The author route takes a /author/<slug>/ URL and returns name, title, image, biography, social links and about 20 latest articles. Paginated author URLs are rejected. Game Rant lists 178 slugs (games, gaming, pc-news, steam-news, xbox-news, anime-news, nintendo-news), the most of any outlet in this group, and on 2026-10-30 games returned 10 headlines of which 7 were in the 10-story strip.
Step 5
Match the polling rate to the slug
The games slug returned 10 stories from 2026-10-26 21:31 UTC to 2026-10-27 00:05, about 2.5 hours, while apex-legends-news returned 10 stories spread from 2026-04-06 to 2026-09-15. A fixed interval would miss stories on the first and re-fetch stale ones on the second.
Step 6
Use the game-specific slugs as a franchise index
Among the 178 slugs are pc-news, steam-news, core-news, xbox-news and xbox-series-xs-news alongside franchise slugs like apex-legends-news. Each story carried a byline, summary and image.

Publisher sources

Game Rant — publisher site

Game Rant API endpoints

GET/gamerant/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get Game Rant article content

Required: url.

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GET/gamerant/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get a Game Rant author profile

Required: url.

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GET/gamerant/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get Game Rant section headlines

Returns fresh headlines from one public Game Rant RSS section. Items from video sections have type video and are not readable through the article endpoint.

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GET/gamerant/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Game Rant top stories

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-13; url: gamerant.com; title: median 53 characters; summary: median 114 characters; image_url: static0.gamerantimages.com.

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GET/gamerant/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Game Rant RSS sections

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 178 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “Video Games” and 177 other values; url: gamerant.com.

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Game Rant API Documentation

First request

How to use Game Rant endpoints

Pick from 178 section slugs

Skip video items for article extraction

Use the story URL form and the news list

Author URLs are /author/<slug>/ without pagination

Match the polling rate to the slug

Use the game-specific slugs as a franchise index

Publisher sources

Game Rant API endpoints

Other Media & Streaming APIs

Game Rant API Documentation

First request

How to use Game Rant endpoints

Pick from 178 section slugs

Skip video items for article extraction

Use the story URL form and the news list

Author URLs are /author/<slug>/ without pagination

Match the polling rate to the slug

Use the game-specific slugs as a franchise index

Publisher sources

Game Rant API endpoints

Other Media & Streaming APIs