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Popular Mechanics API Documentation

Collect Hearst's science, technology, engineering, and lifestyle magazine with documented Popular Mechanics routes. 1 endpoint documented below.

First request

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

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

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Popular Mechanics API

How to use Popular Mechanics endpoints

Popular Mechanics is Hearst's science, technology, engineering, and lifestyle magazine. A live /popularmechanics/news response on 2026-10-14 contained 50 feed cards; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the all-stories RSS route to monitor new publisher summaries and canonical links, then classify relevant items by their editorial subject in your own pipeline. A sitemap can help a reader navigate published pages, but it does not add a section or article endpoint to this integration. Only /news is registered, sourced from the publisher's all-stories feed. Summaries are teasers; sections, filtered headlines, article bodies, and author lookups were not validated as API routes. Use the endpoint cards for this integration's accepted inputs.

Step 1
Use the all-stories RSS route
A live /popularmechanics/news response on 2026-10-14 contained 50 feed cards; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the all-stories RSS route to monitor new publisher summaries and canonical links, then classify relevant items by their editorial subject in your own pipeline. A sitemap can help a reader navigate published pages, but it does not add a section or article endpoint to this integration.
Step 2
Treat magazine navigation as editorial context
Use the single feed for discovery of science, technology, and hands-on coverage; the magazine's navigation topics are editorial context rather than API filter values. Store the teaser and story URL so a later manual review can focus on the relevant desk.

Publisher sources

Popular Mechanics API endpoints

GET/popularmechanics/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Popular Mechanics top stories

Returns current stories from Popular Mechanics' public all-stories RSS feed. Summaries are publisher teasers, not full article text. This feed-only route does not claim a complete section taxonomy or retrieve article bodies.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 50 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-13; url: popularmechanics.com; title: median 79 characters; summary: median 99 characters; image_url: hips.hearstapps.com.

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Monitored requests

Results from the 7 days to 14 Oct 2026. Current status

Endpoint	Request	Checks passed	Median response
Get Popular Mechanics top stories	`GET /popularmechanics/news`	100%	1.63 s

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Popular Mechanics API Documentation

Collect Hearst's science, technology, engineering, and lifestyle magazine with documented Popular Mechanics routes. 1 endpoint documented below.

First request

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

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

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Popular Mechanics API

How to use Popular Mechanics endpoints

Step 1
Use the all-stories RSS route
A live /popularmechanics/news response on 2026-10-14 contained 50 feed cards; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the all-stories RSS route to monitor new publisher summaries and canonical links, then classify relevant items by their editorial subject in your own pipeline. A sitemap can help a reader navigate published pages, but it does not add a section or article endpoint to this integration.
Step 2
Treat magazine navigation as editorial context
Use the single feed for discovery of science, technology, and hands-on coverage; the magazine's navigation topics are editorial context rather than API filter values. Store the teaser and story URL so a later manual review can focus on the relevant desk.

Publisher sources

Popular Mechanics API endpoints

GET/popularmechanics/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Popular Mechanics top stories

Takes no parameters.

Open in Playground

Monitored requests

Results from the 7 days to 14 Oct 2026. Current status

Endpoint	Request	Checks passed	Median response
Get Popular Mechanics top stories	`GET /popularmechanics/news`	100%	1.63 s

Other Media & Streaming APIs

FUSSBALL.DE API Sportskeeda API JustWatch API Apple Books API All platforms

Back to docs

Popular Mechanics API Documentation

First request

How to use Popular Mechanics endpoints

Use the all-stories RSS route

Treat magazine navigation as editorial context

Publisher sources

Popular Mechanics API endpoints

Get Popular Mechanics top stories

Monitored requests

Other Media & Streaming APIs

Popular Mechanics API Documentation

First request

How to use Popular Mechanics endpoints

Use the all-stories RSS route

Treat magazine navigation as editorial context

Publisher sources

Popular Mechanics API endpoints

Get Popular Mechanics top stories

Monitored requests

Other Media & Streaming APIs