GET/npr/articleapiKey2 credits/request
Returns an NPR article by canonical `url` in the form `https://www.npr.org/YYYY/MM/DD/...`: title, description, section, authors, lead image, publication and update times, and body `paragraphs`. Tracking query strings and fragments are ignored; other hosts, encoded paths and non-article paths are rejected.
Required: url.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-20; section: “Immigration”; url: npr.org; title: 65 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 195 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-21; image_url: npr.brightspotcdn.com.
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GET/npr/authorapiKey2 credits/request
Returns an NPR author profile from a required `url` in the form `https://www.npr.org/people/<id>/<slug>`. The response has `name`, `job_title`, `bio` and the recent stories listed under Stories By, each with title, URL, summary, publication date and a lead image where the card has one. Other hosts or paths return a bad-request error.
Required: url.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 24 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at. Not in every item: image_url (22). In the sample: published_at: 2026-06-01 to 2026-10-10; url: npr.org; summary: median 192 characters; image_url: npr.brightspotcdn.com.
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GET/npr/categoriesapiKey1 credit/request
Lists the sections in NPR's current navigation, each with its name, slug and URL. Pass a returned `slug` as the `topic` parameter of `npr-topic`. The list is not a fixed set, so it follows whatever sections NPR currently shows.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “News” and 19 other values; url: npr.org.
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GET/npr/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request
Returns the current NPR headlines across the site, with no parameters and no section filter. Each item has a title, canonical URL, summary, publication time and author when one is given.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-13; url: npr.org; title: median 69 characters; summary: median 181 characters.
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GET/npr/topicapiKey1 credit/request
Returns the newest public NPR stories from one section archive page. topic is a section slug; use npr-categories for the current value space.
Required: topic.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 24 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-13; title: “Government spent millions on Trump ads. And, federal agents…” and 23 other values; url: npr.org; summary: median 190 characters.
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