Yardbarker API endpoint
Extracts metadata and the publicly served text paragraphs from a canonical Yardbarker story URL. Quiz, account, player, and non-article URLs are rejected.
/yardbarker/articleQuery parameter url is a canonical HTTPS Yardbarker article URL matching /<sport>/articles/<slug>/s1_<source-id>_<article-id>, for example https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/austin_rileys_biggest_swing_of_the_season_powers_braves_to_crucial_game_1_win_vs_phillies/s1_13132_44365458. Tracking query strings and fragments are removed. Other page types, quiz pages, external hosts, and malformed article URLs are rejected.
Returns article metadata and paragraphs served on the public article page. Paragraph extraction uses the article body's observed .art_body_article .froala-view structure; author-card and newsletter text outside that structure is excluded. The response reflects text available to an anonymous visitor.
Start from the checked request: GET /yardbarker/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yardbarker.com%2Fmlb%2Farticles%2Faustin_rileys_biggest_swing_of_the_season_powers_braves_to_crucial_game_1_win_vs_phillies%2Fs1_13132_44365458. Live check on 2026-10-14: one record. Fields present in every checked record: url, title, description, published_at, updated_at, authors, image_url, paragraphs.
For a known public contributor profile, continue with Get a Yardbarker author profile.
| Field | In the sample | Value in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| url | Has a value | yardbarker.com |
| title | Has a value | 91 characters |
| description | Has a value | 115 characters |
| published_at | Has a value | 2026-09-29 |
| updated_at | Has a value | 2026-09-29 |
| authors | Has a value | 1 entry |
| image_url | Has a value | res.cloudinary.com |
| paragraphs | Has a value | 7 entries |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Yardbarker story URL | https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/austin_rileys_biggest_swing_of_the_season_powers_braves_to_crucial_game_1_win_vs_phillies/s1_13132_44365458 | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/yardbarker/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yardbarker.com%2Fmlb%2Farticles%2Faustin_rileys_biggest_swing_of_the_season_powers_braves_to_crucial_game_1_win_vs_phillies%2Fs1_13132_44365458" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/austin_rileys_biggest_swing_of_the_season_powers_braves_to_crucial_game_1_win_vs_phillies/s1_13132_44365458",
"title": "Example Yardbarker story",
"description": "An article summary.",
"published_at": "2026-09-30T12:00:00Z",
"authors": [
"Example Reporter"
],
"paragraphs": [
"First public article paragraph.",
"Second public article paragraph."
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.articleResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.ArticleResponse | No | ||||
| data.authors | array | No | ||||
| data.description | string | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.paragraphs | array | No | ||||
| data.paywalled | boolean | No | Paywalled is true when the publisher serves only a teaser of this article to anonymous readers, so Paragraphs is a partial body rather than the full text. It is omitted when the full public body was returned. | |||
| data.published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.section | string | No | ||||
| data.title | string | No | ||||
| data.updated_at | string | No | ||||
| data.url | string | No |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/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/yardbarker/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yardbarker.com%2Fmlb%2Farticles%2Faustin_rileys_biggest_swing_of_the_season_powers_braves_to_crucial_game_1_win_vs_phillies%2Fs1_13132_44365458" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"