Yahoo News API endpoint
Returns Yahoo News's homepage "need to know" story stream: title, destination URL, summary, source, publish time, comment count, and thumbnail images for each story. Sourced from Yahoo News's own server-rendered homepage.
/yahoo-news/homeNo parameters.
Notable response behavior:
published_at, summary, source, source_url, authors,
category, and thumbnail_url are omitted when Yahoo did not include
them for a given story (this happens most often for published_at on
syndicated/aggregated cards).images lists every size rendition Yahoo generated for the story's
thumbnail, largest listed values first as returned upstream.503.| Field | Filled in, of 6 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| id | 6 | |
| title | 6 | median 75 characters |
| url | 6 | yahoo.com and 1 other host |
| summary | 4 | median 79 characters |
| published_at | 6 | 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 |
| source | 6 | “Forbes” and 4 other values |
| comment_count | 6 | 80 to 7,439, median 696 |
| thumbnail_url | 6 | d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net |
| images | 6 | median 4 entries |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/yahoo-news/home" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"id": "560b182d-c809-3b6d-828e-6b3e0ca44b7c",
"title": "Sailors report dire conditions aboard USS Lincoln. Democrats want answers.",
"url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/senators-demand-inquiry-conditions-aboard-040819124.html",
"summary": "In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Wednesday, Senator Richard Blumenthal called for the Navy to account for conditions aboard the aircraft carrier.",
"published_at": "2026-08-13T04:08:19Z",
"source": "AFP",
"source_url": "https://www.afp.com/",
"category": "U.S.",
"comment_count": 6878,
"thumbnail_url": "https://d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net/images/user-uploaded/c1861d18f6d85ba79a1ffe4419699286.jpg",
"images": [
{
"url": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/.../smartcrop_w1104_h620.../https%3A%2F%2Fd29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net%2F...",
"width": 1104,
"height": 620
}
]
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/yahoonews.homeResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | yahoonews.HomeResponse | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | ||||
| data.items[].authors | array | No | ||||
| data.items[].category | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].comment_count | integer | No | ||||
| data.items[].id | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].images | array | No | ||||
| data.items[].images[].height | integer | No | ||||
| data.items[].images[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].images[].width | integer | No | ||||
| data.items[].published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].source | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].source_url | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].summary | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].thumbnail_url | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].url | string | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 500 | Internal Server Error | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/yahoo-news/home" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"