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Moneycontrol API endpoint
Moneycontrol article API
Returns public Moneycontrol article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Moneycontrol Pro subscriber stories are refused with a 403 permission error because no free content is available. Live blogs return one paragraph per update.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestMoneycontrolpublicnews.articleResponseDoc
Moneycontrol/moneycontrol/articleEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /moneycontrol/article
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Moneycontrol
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.articleResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: url is a canonical HTTPS moneycontrol.com article URL, in either of the site's two shapes: /news/<section>/<slug>-<id>.html (business, India, politics, opinion, trends, interviews, currency, telecom) or /<section>/<slug>-article-<id>.html (world, city, sports, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, banking, education, science, defence, health-and-fitness, automobile, artificial-intelligence, books, astrology, religion, travel, explainers). Video, podcast, photo, and sponsored pages, stock and fund quote pages, and other non-article URLs return a 400 error.
Returns title, description, published_at and updated_at (RFC3339 UTC), section, authors, image_url, and the body paragraphs. Live blogs (...-liveblog-<id>.html) return one paragraph per update, newest first (about 100). Tables and bulleted lists inside a story are not included in paragraphs.
Moneycontrol Pro stories are subscriber-only: Moneycontrol serves them with no body at all, and this endpoint returns a 403 permission error rather than an empty article. An unknown story returns 404.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /moneycontrol/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moneycontrol.com%2Fcity%2Fpune-ganesh-immersion-ai-cameras-facial-recognition-drones-deployed-for-security-article-14036910.html
- Fields returned with a value
- 9
| Field | In the sample | Value in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| url | Has a value | moneycontrol.com |
| title | Has a value | 83 characters |
| description | Has a value | 264 characters |
| published_at | Has a value | 2026-09-24 |
| updated_at | Has a value | 2026-09-24 |
| section | Has a value | “City” |
| authors | Has a value | 1 entry |
| image_url | Has a value | images.moneycontrol.com |
| paragraphs | Has a value | 11 entries |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Moneycontrol article URL | https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/markets/example-article-slug-14037252.html | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/moneycontrol/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moneycontrol.com%2Fnews%2Fbusiness%2Fmarkets%2Fexample-article-slug-14037252.html" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/markets/example-article-slug-14037252.html",
"title": "Example article",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T07:47:26Z",
"updated_at": "2026-09-24T07:49:44Z",
"section": "Markets",
"authors": [
"Jane Doe"
],
"image_url": "https://images.moneycontrol.com/static-mcnews/2026/09/example.jpg",
"paragraphs": [
"Example public paragraph."
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.articleResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.ArticleResponse | No | ||||
| data.authors | array | No | ||||
| data.description | string | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.paragraphs | array | No | ||||
| data.paywalled | boolean | No | Paywalled is true when the publisher serves only a teaser of this article to anonymous readers, so Paragraphs is a partial body rather than the full text. It is omitted when the full public body was returned. | |||
| data.published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.section | string | No | ||||
| data.title | string | No | ||||
| data.updated_at | string | No | ||||
| data.url | string | No |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 403 | Forbidden | #/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/moneycontrol/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moneycontrol.com%2Fnews%2Fbusiness%2Fmarkets%2Fexample-article-slug-14037252.html" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"