New York Daily News API endpoint
Returns public New York Daily News article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. For subscriber-only articles the response carries the free lead-in with paywalled set to true.
/nydailynews/articleQuery parameter: url is a canonical HTTPS article URL on nydailynews.com or www.nydailynews.com of the form /YYYY/MM/DD/<slug>/, e.g. https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/24/city-hall-must-explain-why-they-broke-disclosure-rules/. Section pages, author pages, the feed, and other hosts return an invalid-params error.
The endpoint returns public metadata (title, description, published_at, updated_at, section, authors, image_url) and the body paragraphs. Image captions are not included.
Paywall behavior: most stories are "metered" on the site (a reader-count wall drawn by the browser) but the full text is in the page an anonymous request receives, so paywalled is omitted and paragraphs holds the whole story. A minority of stories are subscriber-only: the server sends only the free lead-in, so paywalled is true and paragraphs holds just that lead-in (usually one paragraph). Photo galleries return their intro text.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/24/city-hall-must-explain-why-they-broke-disclosure-rules","title":"City Hall must explain why they broke disclosure rules","published_at":"2026-09-24T09:00:00Z","section":"Opinion","authors":["New York Daily News Editorial Board"],"image_url":"https://www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/example.jpg","paragraphs":["Mayor Mamdani's aides violated city rules and state law in using the disappearing-message app Signal."]}}
| Field | In the sample | Value in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| url | Has a value | nydailynews.com |
| title | Has a value | 54 characters |
| description | Has a value | 218 characters |
| published_at | Has a value | 2026-09-24 |
| updated_at | Has a value | 2026-09-24 |
| section | Has a value | “Opinion” |
| authors | Has a value | 1 entry |
| image_url | Has a value | nydailynews.com |
| paragraphs | Has a value | 13 entries |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical New York Daily News article URL | https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/24/city-hall-must-explain-why-they-broke-disclosure-rules/ | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/nydailynews/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2F2026%2F09%2F24%2Fcity-hall-must-explain-why-they-broke-disclosure-rules%2F" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/24/city-hall-must-explain-why-they-broke-disclosure-rules",
"title": "City Hall must explain why they broke disclosure rules",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T09:00:00Z",
"section": "Opinion",
"authors": [
"New York Daily News Editorial Board"
],
"image_url": "https://www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/example.jpg",
"paragraphs": [
"Mayor Mamdani's aides violated city rules and state law in using the disappearing-message app Signal."
]
}
}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 |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/nydailynews/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2F2026%2F09%2F24%2Fcity-hall-must-explain-why-they-broke-disclosure-rules%2F" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"