Business news monitoring
Use Forbes endpoints to turn business news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming6 active endpointsapiKey
Forbes API
Turn Forbes's public navigation, section headlines, billionaires feed, person profiles, and article pages into normalized JSON for business news and wealth-data research.
List Forbes's editorial sections, read section headlines, pull the billionaires list, get a person's wealth profile, and get full article content as JSON.
Endpoint families
6
Documented params
14
Examples
6
Live catalog snapshot
Forbes coverage
Active endpoints
6
Methods
GET
Required params
9
Schema refs
6
Article1
Author1
Billionaires1
Categories1
{
"platform": "Forbes",
"endpoint": "forbes-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/forbes/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit Forbes
List Forbes's editorial sections, read section headlines, pull the billionaires list, get a person's wealth profile, and get full article content as JSON.
Wealth and rich-list research
Use Forbes endpoints to turn wealth and rich-list research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Editorial research
Use Forbes endpoints to turn editorial research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
How Crawlora handles this platform
Every figure below is read from the live Forbes endpoint catalog — 6 endpoints, 14 documented request parameters, and 6 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
6 documented Forbes endpoints, grouped into 6 request families — Article, Author and Billionaires, plus 3 more.
Published request surface
14 request parameters are documented across those Forbes endpoints, 9 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
6 of the 6 Forbes endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 6 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Documented failure modes
Forbes endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429, 500 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
Agent-callable MCP tools
6 hosted MCP tools back the Forbes endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
Know what the API can collect before integrating
1 endpoints
Article
/forbes/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/forbes/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Billionaires
/forbes/billionaires
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Categories
/forbes/categories
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/forbes/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Person
/forbes/person
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Forbes API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/forbes/articleForbes article content
Returns public Forbes article metadata and body content. The response preserves rich body HTML, paragraphs, headings, and public embed metadata. Accepts dated /sites/<author>/... and /councils/<council>/... URLs; it does not bypass login, subscription, or bot challenges.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 15 of 15 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-21; channel: “Business”.
MCP tool forbes_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/forbes/authorForbes contributor/staff author profile
Returns one Forbes contributor or staff author's public byline page: name, display type, bio, headshot, and their most recent bylined articles. This is the journalist byline page at forbes.com/sites/<slug>/, distinct from forbes-person, which is a billionaire net-worth profile from Forbes's rich-list data.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 5 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-13; url: forbes.com.
MCP tool forbes_author
slug:queryurl:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/forbes/billionairesForbes billionaires list
Returns a paginated Forbes billionaires list from the public Forbes JSON feed. The default field set includes ranking, worth, person identity, citizenship, category, industry, organization, image, and biography fields.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 16 fields filled in every item, 2 not. country_of_citizenship: United States (15), France (2), Spain (1) and 2 more; rank: 1 to 20, median 10.
MCP tool forbes_billionaires
year:querylimit:querystart:query+1 more
GETapiKeyexample
/forbes/categoriesForbes public editorial sections
Lists the current public Forbes navigation taxonomy, including business, money, innovation, leadership, lifestyle, Forbes Vetted, Advisor, Health, and their public subsections. Article promos, account surfaces, games, video-only links, and external hosts are excluded.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 143 items, 3 fields filled in every item, 1 not. name: “Breaking News” and 137 other values; url: forbes.com.
MCP tool forbes_categories
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/forbes/headlinesForbes section headlines
Returns up to 50 unique Forbes article cards for one navigation path. `section` is required and takes a `path` value from the Forbes categories endpoint, such as `/business/`. Each card has the title, article URL, description, author, and publication time and image URL when present. A blocked section returns an error, not an empty list.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 37 items, 3 fields filled in every item, 2 not. url: forbes.com; title: median 70 characters.
MCP tool forbes_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/forbes/personForbes person profile
Returns public Forbes JSON profile data plus the profile page's biography, real-time net-worth display, wealth history, personal facts, editor update, and list-appearance metadata.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 24 items, 5 fields filled in every item. year: 0 to 2,026, median 2,014; rank: 14 to 124, median 59.
MCP tool forbes_person
uri:queryx-api-key:header
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How to scrape Forbes
Extract Forbes data in 6 steps
Forbes exposes a public navigation taxonomy of well over a hundred sections, section-scoped headlines, a billionaires list, and enriched person, author, and article pages. Crawlora's six endpoints return each as normalized JSON. The 2026 billionaires list held 3,428 entries on 2026-09-24, led by Elon Musk's $839 billion list valuation — though his separate real-time profile put him at $930.5 billion that same day, since the list and the live tracker recalculate on different schedules.
- Step 1
List navigation paths
Call /forbes/categories for Forbes's live public navigation taxonomy — the discovery source for the section path /forbes/headlines accepts, such as /business/.
- Step 2
Read a section's headlines
Pass a path from /forbes/categories to /forbes/headlines for current article cards from that section; /business/ returned 40 cards on 2026-09-24.
- Step 3
Pull the billionaires list
Call /forbes/billionaires with an optional year, limit, and offset. The 2026 edition, the default when year is omitted, held 3,428 ranked entries on 2026-09-24, led by Elon Musk at a $839 billion final_worth.
- Step 4
Get a person's wealth profile
Pass a Forbes person URI (for example elon-musk) to /forbes/person for a real-time net worth, wealth-history points, and editor biography — the real-time figure can diverge sharply from the static billionaires-list value on the same day.
- Step 5
Get an author's byline page
Pass a slug (the URL segment after /sites/) or full URL to /forbes/author for that writer's bio, display_type such as “Forbes Staff,” and recent bylines.
- Step 6
Pull Forbes body_html with a headings array
Pass a dated article URL returned by /forbes/headlines to /forbes/article for rich body_html plus a headings array — a topline-format story pulled on 2026-09-24 returned Topline, Key Facts, Tangent, key background, and further reading sections intact.
Agent skills
Use Forbes data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Forbes data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Forbes:
Company rankings and public profiles
Research Fortune company directories and ranking editions and Forbes public billionaire/person records with Crawlora. Use to compare ranked…
npx skills add github.com/Crawlora-org/crawlora-skills --skill company-ranking-research
FAQ
Scraping Forbes: common questions
Why do /forbes/billionaires and /forbes/person show different net worths for the same person?
/forbes/billionaires reflects the static annual list — Elon Musk's entry showed a $839 billion final_worth as of 2026-09-24 — while /forbes/person carries Forbes's separate real-time tracker, which put him at $930.5 billion that same day. Pull the person endpoint if you need the freshest figure.
What does /forbes/author return?
A byline page: biography, a display_type like “Forbes Staff” or contributor, a Twitter/X handle when Forbes lists one, and that author's recent bylined articles — a pull for reporter Siladitya Ray returned 10 recent stories alongside his bio.
How do I find a Forbes person's URI for /forbes/person?
It's the slug Forbes uses in its profile URLs, such as elon-musk. It appears in billionaire list entries and profile links across Forbes's public pages.
Does /forbes/article preserve rich formatting?
Yes — a story pulled on 2026-09-24 came back with a full headings array (Topline, Key Facts, Tangent, key background) alongside body_html and normalized paragraphs, so structured explainer templates aren't flattened into plain text.
Does this require a Forbes account or subscription?
No. Forbes's navigation, feeds, billionaires data, and article pages are public; a Hong Kong-based investor group has held a majority stake in Forbes since 2014, but that ownership doesn't put any of this behind a paywall Crawlora bypasses.