Gaming culture monitoring
Use Kotaku endpoints to turn gaming culture monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Track Kotaku’s games news and opinion alongside game tips, reviews, retro coverage, anime-adjacent culture, and entertainment.
Extract Kotaku games, reviews, culture, entertainment, guides, articles, and author data as JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Kotaku",
"endpoint": "kotaku-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/kotaku/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Kotaku games, reviews, culture, entertainment, guides, articles, and author data as JSON.
Use Kotaku endpoints to turn gaming culture monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Kotaku endpoints to turn game guide discovery into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Kotaku endpoints to turn review and retro coverage analysis into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Kotaku endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Kotaku endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those Kotaku endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Kotaku endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Kotaku endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 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.
5 hosted MCP tools back the Kotaku endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/kotaku/article
/kotaku/author
/kotaku/headlines
/kotaku/news
/kotaku/sections
Endpoint catalog
/kotaku/sectionsReturns the Kotaku section inventory: Entertainment (with its Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, and Superhero sub-topics), Reviews, the Culture umbrella's own sub-topics (News, Retro, Kotaku Game Diary, YouTube, Odds and Ends, Feature, Fine Art), Tips & Guides, Games, and Deals, each linking to its public RSS feed. Every slug is accepted by the headlines endpoint.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 17 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Entertainment” and 16 other values; url: kotaku.com.
MCP tool kotaku_sections
/kotaku/newsReturns Kotaku's current top gaming stories, with no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image where Kotaku provides them. Use `kotaku-headlines` for a single section instead.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: kotaku.com.
MCP tool kotaku_news
/kotaku/headlinesReturns recent Kotaku headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes one of 17 slugs such as `news`, `reviews`, `games`, `game-tips`, `retro`, `horror` or `deals`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-13; url: kotaku.com.
MCP tool kotaku_headlines
/kotaku/articleReturns public Kotaku article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Kotaku articles are free to read, so the full body is returned.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 8 of 8 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-23; section: “Games”.
MCP tool kotaku_article
/kotaku/authorReturns a Kotaku author profile by `url`, a canonical `https://kotaku.com/author/<slug>` link. The response has the `name`, `biography`, `image_url`, `social_links` (a `type` label and URL) and recent articles. The article `published_at` is the page's own date text, such as `Published September 23, 2026 at 11:20 am`, not a timestamp.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 5 fields filled in every item. url: kotaku.com; title: median 88 characters.
MCP tool kotaku_author
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How to scrape Kotaku
Kotaku describes itself as a news and opinion site for games and topics serious gamers care about, while also covering anime, TV, movies, and related pop culture. Its taxonomy separates Tips & Guides from culture routes. Collect guides independently from commentary when a workflow needs durable game help, because opinion and reported news have a different expected shelf life. A 2026-10-27 pull listed 17 slugs and showed that Kotaku's sections include entertainment genres such as fantasy, horror, sci-fi and superhero alongside gaming. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 17-slug section list and the cross-section feed.
Headlines accept one of 17 slugs, such as news, reviews, games, game-tips, retro, horror and deals. The sections route also describes Entertainment's Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi and Superhero sub-topics and the Culture umbrella's own sub-topics.
Headline items carry title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image. The news route reads Kotaku's current top gaming stories.
Kotaku articles are free to read, so article calls on a canonical URL return the full body; a 2026-10-30 sample had 46 paragraphs (about 9,400 characters) with no description field. Slug windows vary widely: entertainment ran 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-29 while action reached back to 2025-07-10, with 20 rows each.
The author route takes a https://kotaku.com/author/<slug> URL and returns name, biography, image_url, typed social links and recent articles.
Slugs include entertainment, action, fantasy, horror, sci-fi, superhero, reviews and news, so a gaming-only job must pick slugs rather than take the whole list.
The entertainment slug returned 20 stories from 2026-10-16 to 2026-10-26, while retro's 20 stories ran from 2026-06-25 to 2026-10-11. All sampled stories had a byline, summary and image.
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 17 slugs, among them entertainment, action, fantasy, horror, sci-fi, superhero, reviews, news. Treat each slug as its own feed: send it verbatim and remember that the same story may be listed under several.
The cross-section news route returned 20 stories from 2026-10-26 15:30 UTC to 2026-10-26 23:00 UTC, with bylines on 20 of 20, summaries on 20 of 20 and images on 20 of 20. Poll it for new items, then enrich them from a section feed.
Agent skills
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Kotaku data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Kotaku:
Researches public news from international, regional, business, technology, sports, science, and entertainment publishers through the Crawlora API —…
npx skills add github.com/Crawlora-org/crawlora-skills --skill news-media-researchFAQ
17 slugs, including news, reviews, game-tips, retro, horror and deals.
No. They are free to read and the full body is returned.
Each has a type label and a URL, for example in the author profile.
No. On 2026-10-27 the section list included fantasy, horror, sci-fi and superhero slugs, so filter by slug if you only want games.