Yahoo Life API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /yahoo-life/home

Cost

3 credits/request

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

How to use Yahoo Life endpoints

Crawlora's Yahoo Life endpoints turn Yahoo's lifestyle coverage into JSON: a homepage feed and full articles. Yahoo Life works differently from Yahoo's other verticals in three ways. There are no section feeds. Its homepage mixes in stories from Yahoo Shopping, Health, and Entertainment. And much of its coverage is Yahoo's own reporting: every article in a 2026-09-18 sample had Yahoo Life as its provider. A second pull on 2026-10-27 showed the home feed returning only 14 items, all under the lifestyle path of www.yahoo.com.

1. Step 1

   Read the homepage feed

   /yahoo-life/home returned 72 stories on 2026-09-18. Unlike the other Yahoo verticals, its stories carry no category field. Tell them apart by URL path instead. 65 were www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ stories. The rest pointed to shopping.yahoo.com, health.yahoo.com, or www.yahoo.com/entertainment/.

2. Step 2

   Send each URL to the right article endpoint

   /yahoo-life/article only accepts www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ URLs. Any other URL is rejected with a 400 invalid-param error. Send the health.yahoo.com stories to /yahoo-health/article, the entertainment ones to /yahoo-entertainment/article, and the shopping.yahoo.com deal posts to /yahoo-shopping/article.

3. Step 3

   Read long-form, first-party articles

   Sampled lifestyle articles ran from 427 to 1,867 words, with a median of about 1,075, written by Yahoo Life staff such as Kelsey Weekman and Kerry Justich. keywords carry trend and topic terms (low ferritin, TSA, squishy toys), and section distinguishes sub-desks such as Food & Drink.

4. Step 4

   Plan for a short feed

   home returned 14 items with id, title, URL and thumbnail and no category label. The first URL sat under www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/, so the path, not a field, tells you the vertical.

5. Step 5

   Poll gently

   With 14 items per pull, a few polls a day are enough; deduplicate by id.

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