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GQ API Documentation

Collect GQ headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Covers style, culture, and grooming. 5 endpoints documented below.

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First request

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

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

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How to use GQ endpoints

GQ is a Condé Nast title whose digital coverage ranges well beyond fashion. The verified US section list returned 11 channels on 2026-09-24: culture, entertainment, fitness, GQ Hype, GQ Recommends, GQ Sports, grooming, politics, style, watches, and wellness. That scope supports distinct monitoring jobs: product recommendations should not be mixed with reported culture or politics, and a grooming guide has a different shelf life from a breaking story. On 2026-09-23, the public top-stories feed included a 2026 hoodie guide by Gerald Ortiz. Preserve its publication timestamp and canonical story URL when measuring recency or following later updates. A pull on 2026-10-27 listed 11 sections; the culture feed returned 38 stories with bylines on 26, and the news route returned 27. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 11-slug section list and the cross-section feed.

Step 1
Choose among 11 sections
The sections route lists culture, entertainment, fitness, gq-hype, gq-recommends, gqsports, grooming, politics, style, watches and wellness.
Step 2
Mind the two date formats
Section items carry published_at as a YYYY-MM-DD date, while the news route returns published_at as an RFC 3339 UTC timestamp.
Step 3
Stay on /story/ articles
Only /story/ articles are returned. A story GQ marks subscriber-only returns a 403 permission error instead of partial text.
Step 4
Look up a contributor like tom-ward
The author route takes a slug (such as tom-ward) or a canonical URL, exactly one, and returns name, job title, biography, headshot, social links and one page of recent articles.
Step 5
Expect partial bylines
culture returned 38 stories from 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-26 with a byline on 26, while gqsports returned 37 with bylines on all and summaries on 27.
Step 6
Use the commerce slugs deliberately
Slugs include fitness, gq-hype, gq-recommends and gqsports. The news route returned 27 stories from 2026-10-21 18:48 UTC with every field.
Step 7
Pick from 11 feeds, culture first
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 11 slugs, among them culture, entertainment, fitness, gq-hype, gq-recommends, gqsports, grooming, politics. Treat each slug as its own feed: send it verbatim and remember that the same story may be listed under several.
Step 8
Use the 27-row strip for freshness
The cross-section news route returned 27 stories from 2026-10-21 18:48 UTC to 2026-10-26 20:14 UTC, with bylines on 27 of 27, summaries on 27 of 27 and images on 27 of 27. Use it to spot fresh items and a section pull to read the complete record.

GQ API endpoints

GET/gq/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get GQ article content

Returns public GQ article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical story URL. A story GQ marks as subscriber-only returns a 403 permission error instead of partial text.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-23; section: “grooming”; url: gq.com; title: 22 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 130 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-23; image_url: media.gq.com.

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GET/gq/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get a GQ contributor profile

Returns a GQ contributor profile, identified by `slug` (such as `tom-ward`) or by a canonical `url`; provide exactly one. The response has the name, job title, biography, headshot, social links and one page of recent articles. `page` runs from 1 to 100 (default 1) and `has_next_page` signals more. Unknown contributors return 404.

Optional: slug, url, page.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 24 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at. In the sample: published_at: 2026-04-26 to 2026-10-03; url: gq.com; title: median 48 characters; summary: median 139 characters.

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GET/gq/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get GQ section headlines

Returns the story cards currently on one GQ section page. `section` is required and takes one of 11 slugs such as `style`, `grooming`, `watches` or `gqsports`. Each item has its `title`, `url`, `summary`, `author`, `image_url` and a `published_at` date (`YYYY-MM-DD`). Only `/story/` articles are listed, and fields GQ does not show are omitted.

Required: section (11 allowed values: culture, entertainment, fitness, gq-hype, gq-recommends, gqsports, grooming, politics, style, watches, wellness).

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 47 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, image_url. Not in every item: published_at (33), author (36). In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-22 to 2026-10-13; url: gq.com; title: median 55 characters; summary: median 120 characters; image_url: media.gq.com.

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GET/gq/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get GQ top stories

Returns GQ's current top stories, with no parameters. Each item has its `title`, `url`, `summary`, `author`, `image_url` and `published_at` as an RFC 3339 UTC timestamp. Only `/story/` articles are included; galleries and other content types are skipped.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 28 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-13; url: gq.com; title: median 58 characters; summary: median 116 characters; image_url: media.gq.com.

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GET/gq/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request

Get GQ sections

Lists the 11 GQ sections accepted by `gq-headlines`: `culture`, `entertainment`, `fitness`, `gq-hype`, `gq-recommends`, `gqsports`, `grooming`, `politics`, `style`, `watches` and `wellness`. Each entry has a `slug`, display `name` and section `url`. Pages that list no stories are not included.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 11 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “Culture” and 10 other values; url: gq.com.

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GQ API Documentation

Collect GQ headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Covers style, culture, and grooming. 5 endpoints documented below.

Try Get GQ section headlines Start with endpoint docs Pricing

First request

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

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

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits GQ scraping API

How to use GQ endpoints

Step 1
Choose among 11 sections
The sections route lists culture, entertainment, fitness, gq-hype, gq-recommends, gqsports, grooming, politics, style, watches and wellness.
Step 2
Mind the two date formats
Section items carry published_at as a YYYY-MM-DD date, while the news route returns published_at as an RFC 3339 UTC timestamp.
Step 3
Stay on /story/ articles
Only /story/ articles are returned. A story GQ marks subscriber-only returns a 403 permission error instead of partial text.
Step 4
Look up a contributor like tom-ward
The author route takes a slug (such as tom-ward) or a canonical URL, exactly one, and returns name, job title, biography, headshot, social links and one page of recent articles.
Step 5
Expect partial bylines
culture returned 38 stories from 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-26 with a byline on 26, while gqsports returned 37 with bylines on all and summaries on 27.
Step 6
Use the commerce slugs deliberately
Slugs include fitness, gq-hype, gq-recommends and gqsports. The news route returned 27 stories from 2026-10-21 18:48 UTC with every field.
Step 7
Pick from 11 feeds, culture first
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 11 slugs, among them culture, entertainment, fitness, gq-hype, gq-recommends, gqsports, grooming, politics. Treat each slug as its own feed: send it verbatim and remember that the same story may be listed under several.
Step 8
Use the 27-row strip for freshness
The cross-section news route returned 27 stories from 2026-10-21 18:48 UTC to 2026-10-26 20:14 UTC, with bylines on 27 of 27, summaries on 27 of 27 and images on 27 of 27. Use it to spot fresh items and a section pull to read the complete record.

GQ API endpoints

GET/gq/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get GQ article content

Returns public GQ article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical story URL. A story GQ marks as subscriber-only returns a 403 permission error instead of partial text.

Required: url.

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GET/gq/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get a GQ contributor profile

Optional: slug, url, page.

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GET/gq/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get GQ section headlines

Required: section (11 allowed values: culture, entertainment, fitness, gq-hype, gq-recommends, gqsports, grooming, politics, style, watches, wellness).

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GET/gq/newsapiKey1 credit/request