The Hindu API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /thehindu/article

Cost

2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/thehindu/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fkerala%2Fexample-article-slug%2Farticle71505134.ece" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use The Hindu endpoints

The Hindu, published by Kasturi & Sons, is an Indian newspaper with a strong public-affairs and policy readership. It covers India, world affairs, business, science, sport, city reporting, and editorial analysis. A research corpus can compare a national policy announcement with the paper's subsequent analysis, but only if the article type and geographic desk are preserved instead of merging both into one event count. On 2026-10-25 a news-cities headlines call returned about 50 items spanning only 16 hours, from 2026-10-24 19:06 UTC to 2026-10-25 11:24 UTC, covering Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai, Kochi, Bengaluru and Puducherry. Two reader-letter items carried URLs with an embedded cue.thehindu fragment, so the trailing article id is the stable key. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 68-slug section list and the cross-section feed.

1. Step 1

   Choose the nested slug that fits

   /thehindu/sections lists parent and child slugs such as news-cities, news-national, business-markets, sport-cricket, opinion-lead and sci-tech-technology. news-cities is a high-volume city-desk stream.

2. Step 2

   Bound the window instead of paging by count

   The news-cities sample covered about 16 hours, so a day's pull will exceed one response. Record the oldest published_at you received and repeat before the next collection.

3. Step 3

   Key on the article id

   Two Readers Write items had URLs beginning httpscuecsappthehinducoincue-webmainuri... and ending article71620084.ece. Extract the trailing article<digits>.ece and keep the full URL for access checks.

4. Step 4

   Check access limits, then resolve the contributor

   Pass a canonical public URL to /thehindu/article for public article text and metadata; subscriber-only content may be unavailable or return an access error. Use /thehindu/author for the contributor record when available, and attribute opinion to its columnist or the paper.

5. Step 5

   Choose among 68 section slugs

   On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 68 slugs, among them news, news-national, news-international, news-states, news-cities, opinion, opinion-editorial, opinion-cartoon. Use the listed value unchanged and record which slug produced a story; overlapping slugs mean the same article can recur.

6. Step 6

   Treat the strip and the news slug as one feed

   The Hindu lists 68 slugs, many prefixed (news-national, news-international, opinion-editorial, opinion-op-ed). On 2026-10-30 the cross-section strip returned 60 stories from 2026-10-30 01:12 to 05:00 UTC with summaries on 57 and images on 55 and no bylines, and 42 of the 60 headlines in the news section were the same stories.

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