MLive API Documentation

Collect Advance Local's Michigan regional news publication with documented MLive routes. 1 endpoint documented below.

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First request

Endpoint: GET /mlive/news
Cost: 1 credit/request

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

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How to use MLive endpoints

MLive is Advance Local's Michigan regional news publication. A live /mlive/news response on 2026-10-14 contained 50 feed cards; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the top-stories feed for statewide discovery and keep each summary, date, and canonical link attached to the record. MLive has local markets and topic navigation, but the validated integration does not claim a complete section inventory, so categorize returned stories after retrieval rather than passing guessed filters. The bounded feed returned 50 items. Descriptions are summaries; encoded feed content varies and is not promised as full story text. DataDome challenges affected homepage and article probes, so only the news feed is exposed. Use the endpoint cards for this integration's accepted inputs.

Step 1
Use the top-stories feed for statewide discovery
A live /mlive/news response on 2026-10-14 contained 50 feed cards; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the top-stories feed for statewide discovery and keep each summary, date, and canonical link attached to the record. MLive has local markets and topic navigation, but the validated integration does not claim a complete section inventory, so categorize returned stories after retrieval rather than passing guessed filters.
Step 2
Do not infer sections from local markets
Treat the 50-card response as feed-only discovery. Summaries do not substitute for article text, and neither homepage navigation nor story URL folders create an accepted section or page parameter in the public contract.

Publisher sources

MLive — publisher site

MLive API endpoints

GET/mlive/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get MLive top stories

Returns current MLive top stories, including title, canonical URL, brief summary, author, publication time, and image where available. Article pages are not currently available, and category endpoints are deferred.

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: 2026-10-13 to 2026-10-14; url: mlive.com; title: median 72 characters; summary: median 122 characters; image_url: mlive.com.

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