The Atlantic API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /theatlantic/article

Cost

2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/theatlantic/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fpolitics%2F2026%2F09%2Fexample-slug%2F688738%2F" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use The Atlantic endpoints

Crawlora's The Atlantic endpoints read theatlantic.com and return JSON for articles, section headlines, and contributor profiles. The Atlantic organizes coverage into 13 sections — Ideas, Politics, Economy, Global, National Security, Technology, Science, Health, Education, Culture, Family, Books, and Photography — and the Technology section carried 10 stories between September 12 and September 23, 2026, largely a running debate over AI-safety 'doomerism' from Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, and Kara Swisher. Article JSON includes a metered boolean flagging The Atlantic's metered paywall, plus a tags array distinct from its section taxonomy. A pull on 2026-10-27 showed only 13 sections starting with ideas, and the headlines route requires one of them.

1. Step 1

   Page ideas for 10 headlines

   /theatlantic/sections returns all 13 sections (Ideas, Politics, Economy, Global, National Security, Technology, Science, Health, Education, Culture, Family, Books, Photography); /theatlantic/headlines takes a slug like technology or culture and returns title, url, author, description, image_url, and published_at.

2. Step 2

   Parse a 15-paragraph body

   /theatlantic/article returns title, section, authors, published_at, updated_at, a tags array, the body as paragraphs, and a metered flag for paywall status.

3. Step 3

   Read an author page

   /theatlantic/author returns name, a biography string, headshot_url, and a list of the contributor's articles; The Atlantic relies heavily on freelance bylines, so the list is often short.

4. Step 4

   Use the 13-slug list

   sections returned 13 entries, the first ideas (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/). headlines has a required section parameter, so a no-section call fails.

5. Step 5

   Plan around the small taxonomy

   With 13 slugs, topic filtering (politics, technology, health) has to happen in your pipeline over the section feeds you pull.

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