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Extract India Today sections, top stories, section headlines, article content, and author profiles as JSON. 5 endpoints documented below.

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Endpoint: GET /indiatoday/sections
Cost: 1 credit/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/indiatoday/sections" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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How to use India Today endpoints

India Today Group began with the India Today magazine and now runs an integrated newsroom across television, print, mobile, social, and digital platforms. Its public taxonomy includes fact check and data-intelligence routes. Use those routes explicitly when validating a claim or assembling a data-driven brief; they should not be inferred from broader India or politics headlines. On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 35 slugs, but only some feeds carried timestamps: top-news returned 41 title-and-URL rows, bollywood returned 19 rows with summaries and images, and the news route returned 76 rows with summaries that reach back a year, to 2025-10-28.

Step 1
Choose among 35 section pages
The sections route lists 35 slugs, such as top-news, south-india, markets, ott, elections, history-of-it, cricket, bollywood and fact-check. Other values return 400.
Step 2
Plan for 12 to 60 text stories
A section call returns the text stories listed on that page, typically 12 to 60, with title, URL, type, summary and image where shown, but no publication time. The news route reads the RSS feed and omits video and photo items.
Step 3
Detect magazine teasers
Subscriber-only magazine stories return only the public teaser with paywalled set to true. Keep the flag beside the body.
Step 4
Include desk bylines
The author route takes a /author/<slug> URL and accepts desk bylines such as india-today-business-desk, returning name, job title, headshot, biography and the first page of recent articles.
Step 5
Check which fields a feed provides
top-news returned title and URL only, so dates need the article route. bollywood added a summary and image on all 19 rows but still no byline.
Step 6
Size the cross-section feed
The news route returned 76 rows, all with summaries but no images, with timestamps from 2025-10-28 to 2026-10-27. Despite the name it is a year-long window, not a latest strip, so filter by published_at.

India Today API endpoints

GET/indiatoday/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get India Today article content

Returns public India Today article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical story URL. Subscriber-only magazine stories return only the public teaser with paywalled set to true.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Business”; url: indiatoday.in; title: 84 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 213 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-24; image_url: akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com.

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GET/indiatoday/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get an India Today author profile

Returns an India Today author profile by `url`, a canonical `https://www.indiatoday.in/author/<slug>` link; desk bylines such as `india-today-business-desk` work too. The response has the name, job title, headshot, biography and the first page of recent text stories (typically 20), each with title, URL, section, summary and image. Stories carry no dates.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 19 items. Filled in every item: title, url, section, summary, image_url. In the sample: url: indiatoday.in; title: median 66 characters; summary: median 153 characters; image_url: akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com.

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GET/indiatoday/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get India Today section headlines

Returns the text stories listed on one India Today section page, typically 12 to 60. `section` is required and takes one of 35 slugs such as `top-news`, `cricket`, `markets`, `bollywood` or `fact-check`; other values return 400. Items have title, URL, `type`, summary and image when shown, but no `published_at`.

Required: section (35 allowed values: top-news, india, south-india, law, business, markets, world, us-news, sports, cricket, football, technology, science, health, environment, lifestyle, movies, bollywood, hollywood, movie-reviews, ott, television, education, elections, fact-check, opinion, trending, sunday-special, cities, auto, jobs, horoscopes, insight, data-intelligence, history-of-it).

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 19 items. Filled in every item: title, url, type, summary, image_url. In the sample: type: Global (16), US News (2), 2026 Midterms (1); url: indiatoday.in; title: median 78 characters; summary: median 223 characters; image_url: akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com.

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GET/indiatoday/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get India Today top stories

Returns fresh India Today top stories from its public RSS feed (text stories only; video and photo items are omitted).

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 84 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at. In the sample: published_at: 2025-10-28 to 2026-10-13; url: indiatoday.in; title: median 75 characters; summary: median 73 characters.

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GET/indiatoday/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request

Get India Today sections

Lists the 35 India Today sections accepted by `indiatoday-headlines`, such as `top-news`, `south-india`, `markets`, `ott`, `elections` and `history-of-it`. Each entry has a `slug`, display `name` and the section page `url`. Takes no parameters.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 35 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “Top News” and 34 other values; url: indiatoday.in.

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India Today API Documentation

Extract India Today sections, top stories, section headlines, article content, and author profiles as JSON. 5 endpoints documented below.

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First request

Endpoint: GET /indiatoday/sections
Cost: 1 credit/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/indiatoday/sections" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits India Today Scraper API

How to use India Today endpoints

Step 1
Choose among 35 section pages
The sections route lists 35 slugs, such as top-news, south-india, markets, ott, elections, history-of-it, cricket, bollywood and fact-check. Other values return 400.
Step 2
Plan for 12 to 60 text stories
A section call returns the text stories listed on that page, typically 12 to 60, with title, URL, type, summary and image where shown, but no publication time. The news route reads the RSS feed and omits video and photo items.
Step 3
Detect magazine teasers
Subscriber-only magazine stories return only the public teaser with paywalled set to true. Keep the flag beside the body.
Step 4
Include desk bylines
The author route takes a /author/<slug> URL and accepts desk bylines such as india-today-business-desk, returning name, job title, headshot, biography and the first page of recent articles.
Step 5
Check which fields a feed provides
top-news returned title and URL only, so dates need the article route. bollywood added a summary and image on all 19 rows but still no byline.
Step 6
Size the cross-section feed
The news route returned 76 rows, all with summaries but no images, with timestamps from 2025-10-28 to 2026-10-27. Despite the name it is a year-long window, not a latest strip, so filter by published_at.

India Today API endpoints

GET/indiatoday/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get India Today article content

Returns public India Today article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical story URL. Subscriber-only magazine stories return only the public teaser with paywalled set to true.

Required: url.

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GET/indiatoday/authorapiKey2 credits/request