GET/livescience/articleapiKey2 credits/request
Returns a Live Science article by `url`, a canonical HTTPS `livescience.com` article link. The response has the title, description, section, authors, lead image, publish and update times, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag.
Required: url.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 8 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Comets”; url: livescience.com; title: 95 characters; authors: 1 entry; updated_at: 2026-09-24; image_url: cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net; paragraphs: 20 entries.
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GET/livescience/authorapiKey2 credits/request
Returns one Live Science author's public profile: name, job title, biography, social links, and one page of their recent articles.
Optional: slug, url, page.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 25 items. Filled in every item: title, url, image_url. Not in every item: published_at (24). In the sample: published_at: 2026-04-23 to 2026-07-18; url: livescience.com; title: median 113 characters; image_url: cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net.
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GET/livescience/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request
Returns current Live Science headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes one of 14 slugs: `animals`, `archaeology`, `chemistry`, `features`, `health`, `human-behavior`, `interviews`, `news`, `opinion`, `physics-mathematics`, `planet-earth`, `products`, `space` or `technology`. Each item has a title and URL, plus author, publication time and image when the section page shows them.
Required: section (14 allowed values: animals, archaeology, chemistry, features, health, human-behavior, interviews, news, opinion, physics-mathematics, planet-earth, products, space, technology).
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 27 items. Filled in every item: title, url, published_at, author, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-01-13 to 2026-10-11; url: livescience.com; title: median 87 characters; image_url: cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net.
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GET/livescience/newsapiKey1 credit/request
Returns Live Science's current top stories across the site, with no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image where available. Use `livescience-headlines` to narrow to one section.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 50 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-13; url: livescience.com; title: median 95 characters; summary: median 4 characters; image_url: cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net.
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GET/livescience/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request
Lists the 14 top-level Live Science sections accepted by `livescience-headlines`, including `animals`, `archaeology`, `human-behavior`, `physics-mathematics`, `planet-earth` and `space`. Each entry has a `slug`, display `name` and section `url`.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 14 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “Animals” and 13 other values; url: livescience.com.
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Live Science API endpoints