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Medical News Today API endpoint
Medical News Today News API
Returns the current article cards from Medical News Today's Health News listing, with no parameters. Each item has a title and URL, plus publication date, author, summary and image when the card shows them. It is the way to read the latest health stories without choosing a section.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestMedical News Todaymedicalnewstoday.newsResponseDoc
Medical News Today/medicalnewstoday/newsEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /medicalnewstoday/news
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Medical News Today
- Response schema
- #/definitions/medicalnewstoday.newsResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Parameters: none.
Returns current article cards from Medical News Today's dedicated Health News page. The public /feed/ path returns an error page, so this endpoint parses the live /news listing.
Workflow check
Start from the checked request: GET /medicalnewstoday/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/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/medicalnewstoday/news" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Illustrative JSON response shape
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"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.newsResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | medicalnewstoday.NewsResponse | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | ||||
| data.items[].author | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].summary | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].type | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].url | string | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 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/news" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"