ScienceAlert API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /sciencealert/sections

Cost

1 credit/request

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

How to use ScienceAlert endpoints

ScienceAlert is ScienceAlert's science reporting across Space, Health, Environment, Humans, Tech, Nature, Physics, and This Week in Science. A live /sciencealert/sections response on 2026-10-14 contained 8 section records; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the eight exact navigation sections to keep research monitoring focused, and open canonical story URLs for publicly available article paragraphs. Author URLs return profile metadata plus one recent-article page, which is useful for contributor context but not a complete archive. Section pagination was not validated and produced an access error in testing; the API exposes no page parameter. Do not promise complete archives or bypass publisher access controls. Use the endpoint cards for this integration's accepted inputs.

1. Step 1

   Use the eight exact navigation sections

   A live /sciencealert/sections response on 2026-10-14 contained 8 section records; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the eight exact navigation sections to keep research monitoring focused, and open canonical story URLs for publicly available article paragraphs. Author URLs return profile metadata plus one recent-article page, which is useful for contributor context but not a complete archive.

2. Step 2

   Record the slug before scheduling

   Record the exact section slug returned by discovery before creating a scheduled feed pull. The article route and public contributor profiles are distinct lookups; no caller-controlled archive page was validated, so do not derive paging from buttons on the website.

3. Step 3

   Do not derive paging from website buttons

   Record the exact section slug returned by discovery before creating a scheduled feed pull. The article route and public contributor profiles are distinct lookups; no caller-controlled archive page was validated, so do not derive paging from buttons on the website. Pass only a value returned by /sciencealert/sections and accepted by /sciencealert/headlines; preserve the selected desk with its results.

4. Step 4

   Open canonical story URLs

   Section pagination was not validated and produced an access error in testing; the API exposes no page parameter. Do not promise complete archives or bypass publisher access controls. Keep teaser, truncation, premium, or access fields beside the canonical URL so downstream users can see what the publisher actually returned.

5. Step 5

   Resolve profile metadata plus one article slice

   Use the eight exact navigation sections to keep research monitoring focused, and open canonical story URLs for publicly available article paragraphs. Author URLs return profile metadata plus one recent-article page, which is useful for contributor context but not a complete archive. Section pagination was not validated and produced an access error in testing; the API exposes no page parameter. Do not promise complete archives or bypass publisher access controls.

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