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Extract Pacific Northwest government, business, environment, education, and sports reporting from Seattle Times with structured article, section, headline. 5 endpoints documented below.

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First request

Endpoint: GET /seattletimes/article
Cost: 2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/seattletimes/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattletimes.com%2Fseattle-news%2Ftransportation%2Fsound-transit-ceo-claims-his-30k-bonus-and-wins-a-pay-raise%2F" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Seattle Times Scraper API

How to use Seattle Times endpoints

The Seattle Times is an independent regional newspaper for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. Its public coverage connects city and Washington state government with education, business, environment, and sports. That regional scope is valuable for civic research: a statewide policy story and a Seattle neighborhood issue can appear near each other in a general feed. Capture the geographic level and reporting desk before counting stories by topic. On 2026-10-25 a boeing-aerospace headlines call returned a 403 from the publisher, so build for refusals. The documented section list runs to roughly ninety slugs across civic, business, sports and lifestyle, including boeing-aerospace, amazon, microsoft, costco, starbucks, alaska-airlines, seahawks, mariners, kraken, storm, times-watchdog and homeless.

Step 1
Treat a 403 as a retry, not as an empty section
A boeing-aerospace request on 2026-10-25 came back with the publisher's 403 status. Back off and retry later, and never record a failed pull as zero stories for that section.
Step 2
Pick the company or civic slug that matches the question
/seattletimes/sections lists company slugs (boeing-aerospace, amazon, microsoft, costco, starbucks, alaska-airlines) and civic ones (homeless, education-lab, climate-lab, times-watchdog, eastside, puget-sound). A company desk and a statewide policy desk answer different questions, so keep them separate.
Step 3
Collect sports and local business by team or desk
Team slugs such as seahawks, mariners, kraken, sounders, storm, reign and torrent let you follow one franchise, while local-business and markets cover the regional economy. Store the slug with each headline.
Step 4
Read bodies of roughly 9 paragraphs
Pass a canonical public URL to /seattletimes/article and use /seattletimes/author for the named contributor when available. Keep the canonical URL so updates to a continuing story attach to the original record.

Seattle Times API endpoints

GET/seattletimes/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get Seattle Times article content

Returns public Seattle Times story metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical story URL. The site's metered paywall is a client-side overlay: anonymous requests receive the full body, which is returned as-is.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Traffic Lab”; url: seattletimes.com; title: 60 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 154 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-25; image_url: images.seattletimes.com.

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GET/seattletimes/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get a Seattle Times author profile

Returns one Seattle Times author's public profile: name, bio, newsroom-published email and X/Twitter link when listed, and their most recent stories.

Optional: slug, url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, category, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-08-24 to 2026-10-13; url: seattletimes.com; title: median 60 characters; summary: median 135 characters; image_url: images.seattletimes.com.

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GET/seattletimes/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get Seattle Times section headlines

Returns about 30 to 35 of the latest Seattle Times stories for one section. `section` is required and takes a section slug such as `seattle-news`, `politics`, `boeing-aerospace`, `mariners`, `seahawks` or `obituaries`. Each item has its title, canonical URL without tracking parameters, summary, publication time and author. Only the newest page is available.

Required: section (98 allowed values, including seattle-news, law-justice, politics, transportation, climate-lab, environment, weather, health, data, homeless, education-lab, education, times-watchdog, mental-health, eastside, puget-sound, business, boeing-aerospace, real-estate, amazon, technology, microsoft, alaska-airlines, costco, economy, starbucks, retail, nation-world, nation, world, nation-politics, oddities, sports, seahawks, mariners, uw-huskies, wsu-cougars, storm, kraken, sounders).

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GET/seattletimes/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Seattle Times top stories

Returns about 30 of the newest Seattle Times stories across all sections, including Associated Press wire stories. Takes no parameters. Each item has its title, canonical URL without tracking parameters, summary, publication time, author byline and lead image.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 34 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-13; url: seattletimes.com; title: median 70 characters; summary: median 147 characters.

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GET/seattletimes/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Seattle Times sections

Returns the public Seattle Times section inventory: every category in the site's navigation and RSS feed list that publishes a live feed.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 98 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “Local News” and 97 other values; url: seattletimes.com.

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Seattle Times API Documentation

Extract Pacific Northwest government, business, environment, education, and sports reporting from Seattle Times with structured article, section, headline. 5 endpoints documented below.

Try Get Seattle Times article content Start with endpoint docs Pricing

First request

Endpoint: GET /seattletimes/article
Cost: 2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/seattletimes/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattletimes.com%2Fseattle-news%2Ftransportation%2Fsound-transit-ceo-claims-his-30k-bonus-and-wins-a-pay-raise%2F" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Seattle Times Scraper API

How to use Seattle Times endpoints

Step 1
Treat a 403 as a retry, not as an empty section
A boeing-aerospace request on 2026-10-25 came back with the publisher's 403 status. Back off and retry later, and never record a failed pull as zero stories for that section.
Step 2
Pick the company or civic slug that matches the question
/seattletimes/sections lists company slugs (boeing-aerospace, amazon, microsoft, costco, starbucks, alaska-airlines) and civic ones (homeless, education-lab, climate-lab, times-watchdog, eastside, puget-sound). A company desk and a statewide policy desk answer different questions, so keep them separate.
Step 3
Collect sports and local business by team or desk
Team slugs such as seahawks, mariners, kraken, sounders, storm, reign and torrent let you follow one franchise, while local-business and markets cover the regional economy. Store the slug with each headline.
Step 4
Read bodies of roughly 9 paragraphs
Pass a canonical public URL to /seattletimes/article and use /seattletimes/author for the named contributor when available. Keep the canonical URL so updates to a continuing story attach to the original record.