SFGate API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /sfgate/article

Cost

2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sfgate/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfgate.com%2Fbayarea%2Farticle%2Fexample-story-22400001.php" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use SFGate endpoints

SFGate is Hearst's Bay Area digital publication, with a mix that reaches beyond San Francisco city hall into California travel, restaurants, culture, and outdoor life. A Bay Area market study can lose that distinction if every item is filed simply as local news. Keep the publisher's category and geography attached to each record, especially when comparing coverage of a city neighborhood with a statewide destination. On 2026-10-25 the documented list held 12 section slugs. The routes feed returned 15 items, one per week from 2026-07-18 to 2026-10-24, all published around 11:00 UTC on Saturdays and all by one contributor, so it behaves like a weekly airline and airport column, not a topic archive.

1. Step 1

   Read the slug as a column or a beat

   /sfgate/sections lists 12 slugs: top-news, bay-area, business-technology, entertainment, celebrity, food-dining, travel, routes, top-sports, giants, 49ers and warriors. routes returned a weekly series by a single writer, so it measures one column's output rather than Bay Area travel coverage.

2. Step 2

   Use the cadence to spot gaps

   A weekly feed with Saturday timestamps makes a missing week visible. Check the gap between consecutive published_at values before you assume a pull dropped a story.

3. Step 3

   Do not trust slugs in URLs

   SFGate article URLs end in a numeric id, and the slug words can come from an earlier headline: a Southwest story and a United aircraft story both sat under URLs naming other subjects. Store the canonical URL and the title from the response, not words parsed from the path.

4. Step 4

   Resolve the article and byline

   Pass a canonical public URL to /sfgate/article and use /sfgate/author for the named contributor when available. Keep the place named in the piece, because SFGate covers California and travel beyond the city.

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