Greater Manchester news monitoring
Use Manchester Evening News endpoints to turn greater manchester news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
Manchester Evening News Scraper API
Monitor Greater Manchester reporting across local news, politics, transport, communities, sport, culture, and consumer issues.
Extract Manchester Evening News sections, local headlines, articles, and author profiles as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Manchester Evening News coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "Manchester Evening News",
"endpoint": "men-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/men/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
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Extract Manchester Evening News sections, local headlines, articles, and author profiles as structured JSON.
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Managed execution
How Crawlora handles this platform
Every figure below is read from the live Manchester Evening News endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
5 documented Manchester Evening News endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
9 request parameters are documented across those Manchester Evening News endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 Manchester Evening News endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Documented failure modes
Manchester Evening News endpoints document their error responses (400, 404 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
5 hosted MCP tools back the Manchester Evening News 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
/men/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/men/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/men/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/men/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/men/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Manchester Evening News API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/men/sectionsGet Manchester Evening News sections
Lists the Manchester Evening News sections accepted by `men-headlines`, such as `news`, `news/uk-news`, `sport/football`, `whats-on/music-nightlife-news` and `trips-and-breaks`. Each entry has a stable `slug`, display `name` and section `url`. Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 27 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “News” and 26 other values; url: manchestereveningnews.co.uk.
MCP tool men_sections
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/men/newsGet Manchester Evening News top stories
Returns the Manchester Evening News' current top stories, with no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image where available.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 25 items, 4 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: manchestereveningnews.co.uk.
MCP tool men_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/men/headlinesGet Manchester Evening News section headlines
Returns current Manchester Evening News headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `news`, `news/greater-manchester-news`, `sport/football/transfer-news`, `whats-on/theatre-news` or `trips-and-breaks`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time and image.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 25 items, 4 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: manchestereveningnews.co.uk.
MCP tool men_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/men/articleGet Manchester Evening News article content
Returns a Manchester Evening News article by `url`, a canonical HTTPS article link. The response has the title, description, section, authors, lead image, publish and update times, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag. Subscriber-only or blocked articles return an upstream error.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 8 of 8 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2019-12-16; url: manchestereveningnews.co.uk.
MCP tool men_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/men/authorGet a Manchester Evening News author profile
Returns a Manchester Evening News author profile, identified by `slug` (such as `lee-swettenham`) or a canonical `manchestereveningnews.co.uk/authors/<slug>/` `url`; provide exactly one. The response has the name, job title, bio, `email`, `twitter` and one page of recent articles with title, URL and label. Contact fields are absent when unlisted.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 24 items, 4 fields filled in every item. url: manchestereveningnews.co.uk; title: median 86 characters.
MCP tool men_author
slug:queryurl:queryx-api-key:header
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How to scrape Manchester Evening News
Extract Manchester Evening News data in 6 steps
Manchester Evening News is a Greater Manchester regional daily founded in 1868 and operated by Reach plc. Its coverage spans Manchester and surrounding boroughs such as Salford, Stockport, and Oldham, with local news, sport, traffic, and what's-on reporting. Reach introduced a digital subscription for selected premium articles while saying most daily news remains free. Catalog behavior is response-based: accessible public stories return body text; subscriber-only or upstream-blocked stories return an error rather than a partial teaser. Use the sections endpoint to discover current local routes, and store the returned section with each story so a council or neighbourhood update remains geographically attributable. On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 27 slugs, mostly nested under news, and each feed returned 25 stories without bylines.
- Step 1
Start from news and 26 more slugs
The sections route lists 27 slugs such as news, news/uk-news, news/greater-manchester-news, sport/football, sport/football/transfer-news, whats-on/music-nightlife-news and trips-and-breaks.
- Step 2
Collect the dated fields
Headline items carry title, URL, summary, publication time and image, and the news route adds author where available.
- Step 3
Handle access errors
Article calls return title, description, section, authors, lead image, publish and update times, body paragraphs and a paywalled flag. Subscriber-only or blocked articles return an error.
- Step 4
Look up a journalist like lee-swettenham
The author route takes a slug (such as lee-swettenham) or a /authors/<slug>/ URL, exactly one, and returns name, job title, bio, email and X handle.
- Step 5
Pick the local layers
Slugs include news, news/uk-news, news/greater-manchester-news, news/local-news, news/world-news, news/health, news/property and news/cost-of-living. Greater Manchester stories can appear under several of them.
- Step 6
Compare news and sport cadence
The news slug's 25 stories ran from 2026-10-26 18:16 UTC to 22:38 (about four hours), and sport's 25 ran from 05:00 to 23:18. All had a summary and image, but none had an author.
Agent skills
Use Manchester Evening News data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Manchester Evening News data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Manchester Evening News:
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FAQ
Scraping Manchester Evening News: common questions
How many Manchester Evening News sections are there?
27 slugs, from news and sport/football to whats-on and trips-and-breaks.
What happens with a subscriber-only MEN article?
The article route returns an error instead of a body; the paywalled flag is kept for accessible pages.
Can I pass both a slug and a URL to the MEN author route?
No. Provide exactly one.
Do Manchester Evening News rows include authors?
Not in the 2026-10-27 pulls: all 25 stories per feed had a summary and image but no author.