Vanity Fair API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /vanityfair/article

Cost

2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/vanityfair/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fstory%2Fexample-article" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use Vanity Fair endpoints

Vanity Fair is Condé Nast's culture and journalism magazine, spanning Hollywood, awards, politics, profiles, style, and long-form features. Its entertainment pieces can cover the same performer as a political profile or fashion story, but their editorial purposes differ. Keep the feature type and byline with every record before using coverage volume as a measure of an award season or cultural trend. On 2026-10-25 the documented list held 12 slugs. The what-is-cinema feed returned more than 50 items, each with only a title and a URL (no author, date or summary), covering the Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals and the Academy Museum, plus two Rolex partnership features whose URLs begin /story/what-is-cinema-rolex-. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 12-slug section list and the cross-section feed.

1. Step 1

   Expect title-and-URL records

   The what-is-cinema items had no author, published_at or summary. Fetch each article for the date, byline and format before storing it as a dated record.

2. Step 2

   Identify series and sponsored pieces by URL

   Two items were Rolex mentoring and partnership features at /story/what-is-cinema-rolex-.... Flag URLs with that prefix as partner content to review, so they do not enter editorial counts unexamined.

3. Step 3

   Tie festival coverage to the event

   The feed mixed Venice 2026 winners, a TIFF tribute and a Toronto preview with New York Film Festival premieres. Take the event from the article and attach the date there.

4. Step 4

   Budget 10,400 characters per article

   Pass a canonical public URL to /vanityfair/article and use /vanityfair/author for the named contributor when available. Keep the feature type and byline with every record before using coverage volume as a measure of an award season.

5. Step 5

   Pick from 12 feeds, hollywood first

   On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 12 slugs, among them hollywood, movies, television, award-season, what-is-cinema, culture, politics, business. Send slugs verbatim and keep the slug with each record, since a story can appear under more than one of them.

6. Step 6

   The strip spans three days

   The cross-section news route returned 29 stories from 2026-10-26 14:15 to 2026-10-29 20:03 UTC, with bylines on 28, summaries on 29 and no images. Section headlines for hollywood and movies carried only title and URL, and a 2026-10-30 article sample was long: 31 paragraphs (about 10,000 characters).

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