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Extract Metro UK news, sport, entertainment, lifestyle, articles, and author profiles as structured JSON. 5 endpoints documented below.

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First request

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

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

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How to use Metro endpoints

Metro is a dmg media UK brand launched in 1999 for an urban commuter audience. Its 42 supported RSS sections include UK and world news, sport, showbiz, TV soaps, gaming, money, property, food, travel, and lifestyle. Use the publisher’s lifestyle subcategory where possible, since property, food, travel, and money pages are separate editorial products rather than a single generic features feed. On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 42 slugs, with the home feed returning 30 stories and a summary on 22 of them. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 42-slug section list and the cross-section feed.

Step 1
Use 42 section slugs
The sections route lists 42 slugs, including uk, football, showbiz and coronation-street. home is the site-wide stream, the same stories as the news route.
Step 2
Read free articles in full
Metro articles are free to read, and live-blog entries are included in the body.
Step 3
Capture the dates and section
Article calls return headline, description, section, authors, publish and update times, lead image and body paragraphs.
Step 4
Include topic areas in profiles
The author route returns name, job title, biography, topic areas, social links and most recent articles.
Step 5
Expect partial summaries on the lead feed
home returned 30 stories from 2026-10-26 17:17 UTC to 2026-10-27 01:10 with bylines and images but summaries on only 22, while gaming returned 29 stories all with summaries.
Step 6
Use niche slugs for longer windows
gaming spanned 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-27, about six days, against under nine hours for home. Other slugs include news, uk, world, us, politics, tech and weird.
Step 7
Choose among 42 section slugs
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 42 slugs, among them home, news, uk, world, us, politics, tech, weird. Treat each slug as its own feed: send it verbatim and remember that the same story may be listed under several.
Step 8
Read 29 stories spanning 12 hours
The cross-section news route returned 30 stories from 2026-10-26 17:17 UTC to 2026-10-27 01:10 UTC, with bylines on 30 of 30, summaries on 22 of 30 and images on 30 of 30. Treat it as a recent strip and fetch section feeds or articles for fuller fields.

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Metro API endpoints

GET/metro/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get Metro article content

Returns public Metro article metadata (headline, description, section, authors, publish/update times, lead image) and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Metro articles are free to read; live-blog entries are included in the body.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Politics”; url: metro.co.uk; title: 56 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 112 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-24; image_url: metro.co.uk.

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GET/metro/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get a Metro author profile

Returns a Metro author's name, job title, biography, topic areas, social links, and most recent articles from a canonical author URL.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 27 items. Filled in every item: title, url, published_at. Not in every item: section (20), image_url (25). In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-20 to 2026-10-13; url: metro.co.uk; title: median 77 characters; image_url: metro.co.uk.

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GET/metro/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get Metro section headlines

Returns fresh headlines from one public Metro section feed. The section must be a slug returned by the sections endpoint.

Required: section (42 allowed values, including home, news, uk, world, us, politics, tech, weird, sport, football, boxing, cricket, f1, golf, snooker, tennis, entertainment, showbiz, tv, film, music, gaming, tv-soaps, coronation-street, eastenders, emmerdale, hollyoaks, casualty, lifestyle, health, food, travel, money, property, families, beauty, sex, horoscopes, shopping, opinion).

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 21 items. Filled in every item: title, url, published_at, author, image_url. Not in every item: summary (8). In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: metro.co.uk; title: median 75 characters; image_url: metro.co.uk; summary: median 60 characters.

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GET/metro/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Metro top stories

Returns fresh Metro (metro.co.uk) top stories from the site's public RSS feed, with summary, author, publish time, and lead image when present.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 19 items. Filled in every item: title, url, published_at, author, image_url. Not in every item: summary (7). In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-13; url: metro.co.uk; title: median 78 characters; image_url: metro.co.uk; summary: median 50 characters.

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GET/metro/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Metro sections

Lists the 42 Metro section slugs accepted by `metro-headlines`, each with its display name and URL. Slugs include `uk`, `football`, `showbiz` and `coronation-street`. `home` is the site-wide stream, the same stories as `metro-news`, and parent sections such as `news` and `sport` aggregate their child sections.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 42 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “Home” and 41 other values; url: metro.co.uk.

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Metro API Documentation

Extract Metro UK news, sport, entertainment, lifestyle, articles, and author profiles as structured JSON. 5 endpoints documented below.

Try Get Metro sections Start with endpoint docs Pricing

First request

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

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

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Metro Scraper API

How to use Metro endpoints

Step 1
Use 42 section slugs
The sections route lists 42 slugs, including uk, football, showbiz and coronation-street. home is the site-wide stream, the same stories as the news route.
Step 2
Read free articles in full
Metro articles are free to read, and live-blog entries are included in the body.
Step 3
Capture the dates and section
Article calls return headline, description, section, authors, publish and update times, lead image and body paragraphs.
Step 4
Include topic areas in profiles
The author route returns name, job title, biography, topic areas, social links and most recent articles.
Step 5
Expect partial summaries on the lead feed
home returned 30 stories from 2026-10-26 17:17 UTC to 2026-10-27 01:10 with bylines and images but summaries on only 22, while gaming returned 29 stories all with summaries.
Step 6
Use niche slugs for longer windows
gaming spanned 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-27, about six days, against under nine hours for home. Other slugs include news, uk, world, us, politics, tech and weird.
Step 7
Choose among 42 section slugs
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 42 slugs, among them home, news, uk, world, us, politics, tech, weird. Treat each slug as its own feed: send it verbatim and remember that the same story may be listed under several.
Step 8
Read 29 stories spanning 12 hours
The cross-section news route returned 30 stories from 2026-10-26 17:17 UTC to 2026-10-27 01:10 UTC, with bylines on 30 of 30, summaries on 22 of 30 and images on 30 of 30. Treat it as a recent strip and fetch section feeds or articles for fuller fields.