Medical News Today API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /medicalnewstoday/sections

Cost

1 credit/request

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

How to use Medical News Today endpoints

Medical News Today is Medical News Today's newsroom coverage of health research and health news, distinct from its broader patient-information library. A live /medicalnewstoday/sections response on 2026-10-14 contained 1 section record; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. The newsroom's supported section is the Health News desk, so use its exact `news` value rather than treating every condition guide on the wider site as a news category. Open canonical news stories for publicly surfaced article text and use a contributor slug or profile URL for author history. On 2026-10-14 the news and `news`-section headline routes each returned 40 records, the article sample returned 39 public paragraphs, and the author sample returned 27 linked stories. Those are snapshots rather than completeness guarantees. Article output covers public page text and does not grant access to restricted material; author lookup is a public profile/archive, not a clinical-expert directory. Use the endpoint cards for this integration's accepted inputs.

1. Step 1

   Use the single Health News desk

   A live /medicalnewstoday/sections response on 2026-10-14 contained 1 section record; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. The newsroom's supported section is the Health News desk, so use its exact `news` value rather than treating every condition guide on the wider site as a news category. Open canonical news stories for publicly surfaced article text and use a contributor slug or profile URL for author history.

2. Step 2

   Add condition labels downstream

   The registered surface is a news workflow, not a clinical-topic search interface. Use the single `news` section for headline discovery, a canonical story URL for article text, and either a documented contributor slug or profile URL for author lookup. Keep condition labels downstream because they are returned article metadata, not caller-supplied search filters.

3. Step 3

   Request the exact news value

   The registered surface is a news workflow, not a clinical-topic search interface. Use the single `news` section for headline discovery, a canonical story URL for article text, and either a documented contributor slug or profile URL for author lookup. Keep condition labels downstream because they are returned article metadata, not caller-supplied search filters. Pass only a value returned by /medicalnewstoday/sections and accepted by /medicalnewstoday/headlines; preserve the selected desk with its results.

4. Step 4

   Open canonical news stories for text

   On 2026-10-14 the news and `news`-section headline routes each returned 40 records, the article sample returned 39 public paragraphs, and the author sample returned 27 linked stories. Those are snapshots rather than completeness guarantees. Article output covers public page text and does not grant access to restricted material; author lookup is a public profile/archive, not a clinical-expert directory. Keep teaser, truncation, premium, or access fields beside the canonical URL so downstream users can see what the publisher actually returned.

5. Step 5

   Look up a contributor by slug or profile URL

   The newsroom's supported section is the Health News desk, so use its exact `news` value rather than treating every condition guide on the wider site as a news category. Open canonical news stories for publicly surfaced article text and use a contributor slug or profile URL for author history. On 2026-10-14 the news and `news`-section headline routes each returned 40 records, the article sample returned 39 public paragraphs, and the author sample returned 27 linked stories. Those are snapshots rather than completeness guarantees. Article output covers public page text and does not grant access to restricted material; author lookup is a public profile/archive, not a clinical-expert directory.

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