Yahoo Health API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /yahoo-health/home

Cost

3 credits/request

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/yahoo-health/home" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use Yahoo Health endpoints

Crawlora's Yahoo Health endpoints turn health.yahoo.com into JSON: a homepage feed, six section feeds, and full articles. The coverage runs long and granular. Sampled articles had a median of about 1,350 words, the longest of Yahoo's verticals, and each article's section field names a specific condition such as Cardiovascular Health, Skin Cancer, or Lung Cancer, much finer than the six feed sections. A second pull on 2026-10-27 showed the home feed returning 74 items, each with a category label such as your-body.

1. Step 1

   Pick a feed section

   /yahoo-health/category accepts conditions, wellness, your-body, treatments, healthcare, or general. In the three sections sampled, page 1 held 27 to 68 stories. The homepage, /yahoo-health/home, returned 69 stories, led by wellness (30), your-body (18), and conditions (17).

2. Step 2

   Classify by the article's own section

   Open a story with /yahoo-health/article. Its section field gives the condition-level topic, and keywords list the clinicians, institutions, and treatments mentioned. One article named the Mount Sinai Health System and its doctors. Group on section rather than on the feed category when you want condition-level monitoring.

3. Step 3

   Check the source and credentials

   provider names the originating outlet: Everyday Health, Flow Space, Parade, WWD, and others in the 2026-09-18 sample. Author strings sometimes carry credentials, as in Abby McCoy, RN. Keep both fields when you need to weigh how authoritative a piece is.

4. Step 4

   Read the category from each row

   home returned 74 items with an id, title, URL, thumbnail and category (your-body for the first, a story about footwear and foot health under health.yahoo.com/your-body/foot-health/). Collect the distinct category values from home, then pass them to the category route.

5. Step 5

   Dedupe by id across pulls

   A 74-item home feed overlaps heavily from one pull to the next, so key stored articles by id and keep the pull time.

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