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Medical News Today API endpoint
Medical News Today section headlines API
Returns the dated story cards from the Medical News Today Health News stream. `section` is required and currently accepts only `news`; `medicalnewstoday-sections` shows the accepted value. Each item has a title and URL, with a publication date such as `2026-09-26`, author, summary and image when the card shows them.
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Medical News Today/medicalnewstoday/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /medicalnewstoday/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Medical News Today
- Response schema
- #/definitions/medicalnewstoday.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameters:
section(required):news
Returns the dated story cards from the dedicated Health News stream. Use medicalnewstoday-sections to discover the current accepted section value.
Workflow check
Start from the checked request: GET /medicalnewstoday/headlines?section=news. Live check on 2026-10-14: 40 items returned. Fields present in every checked item: title, url, summary.
Resolve a returned canonical story URL with Get a Medical News Today article.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /medicalnewstoday/headlines?section=news
- Items in items
- 40
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 3
| Field | Filled in, of 40 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 40 | median 74 characters |
| url | 40 | medicalnewstoday.com |
| summary | 40 | median 148 characters |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Medical News Today newsroom section Allowed values: news. | news | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/medicalnewstoday/headlines?section=news" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Illustrative JSON response shape
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"section": "news",
"items": [
{
"title": "FDA clears 2 new Alzheimer’s blood tests",
"url": "https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/example",
"published_at": "2026-09-26"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/medicalnewstoday.headlinesResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | medicalnewstoday.HeadlinesResponse | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under Medical News Today News API. | |||
| data.section | string | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Code examples
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/medicalnewstoday/headlines?section=news" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"