Media-monitoring workflows
Use Mediaite endpoints to turn media-monitoring workflows into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
Mediaite Scraper API
Monitor sharp coverage of the intersection of media and politics, including cable news, online outlets, White House coverage, and Congress.
Extract Mediaite media-politics news, TV, opinion, articles, and author profiles as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Mediaite coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "Mediaite",
"endpoint": "mediaite-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/mediaite/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit Mediaite
Extract Mediaite media-politics news, TV, opinion, articles, and author profiles as structured JSON.
Cable-news analysis
Use Mediaite endpoints to turn cable-news analysis into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Politics and press research
Use Mediaite endpoints to turn politics and press 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 Mediaite 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 Mediaite endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
9 request parameters are documented across those Mediaite endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 Mediaite 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
Mediaite 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.
Agent-callable MCP tools
5 hosted MCP tools back the Mediaite 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
/mediaite/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/mediaite/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/mediaite/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/mediaite/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/mediaite/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Mediaite API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/mediaite/sectionsGet Mediaite sections
Lists the 15 Mediaite category slugs accepted as `section` by `mediaite-headlines`, such as `tv`, `politics`, `opinion` and `crime`. Each entry has its `slug`, display `name` and `url`. `premium` is the Mediaite One Sheet newsletter category, and `election-2020` is a legacy category that still publishes occasionally.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 15 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Media” and 14 other values; url: mediaite.com.
MCP tool mediaite_sections
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/mediaite/newsGet Mediaite top stories
Returns the 20 most recent Mediaite stories across the site, with no parameters. Each item has its title, canonical URL, summary, publication time and author. Use `mediaite-headlines` to read a single category instead.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 18 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: mediaite.com.
MCP tool mediaite_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/mediaite/headlinesGet Mediaite section headlines
Returns up to 20 recent Mediaite stories for one category. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `tv`, `politics`, `opinion` or `premium`; any other value returns an invalid-parameter error. Each item has a title, URL and publication time, and may include author, summary and image.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-10 to 2026-10-13; url: mediaite.com.
MCP tool mediaite_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/mediaite/articleGet Mediaite article content
Returns public Mediaite article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Mediaite One Sheet (premium) pages are flagged paywalled.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “TV”.
MCP tool mediaite_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/mediaite/authorGet a Mediaite author profile
Returns a Mediaite author profile by `slug` (for example `michael-luciano`) or by a mediaite.com author `url`; supply exactly one. The response has `name`, `bio`, `avatar_url`, `email`, `twitter` and about 10 recent articles, each with `title`, `url` and a short `date` label such as `Sep 24th` (no year or time). Contact fields are omitted when the page shows none.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 3 fields filled in every item. url: mediaite.com; title: median 92 characters.
MCP tool mediaite_author
slug:queryurl:queryx-api-key:header
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How to scrape Mediaite
Extract Mediaite data in 8 steps
Mediaite, part of Abrams Media and founded by owner-publisher Dan Abrams, specializes in the intersection of media and politics. Its public sections separate media, TV, online, politics, opinion, columnists, and premium newsletter content. Retain section and byline fields for analysis, because a columnist’s opinion piece should not be pooled blindly with reported media-industry coverage. A 2026-10-27 pull listed 15 sections and rows without image fields, each feed returning about 20 stories. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 15-slug section list and the cross-section feed.
- Step 1
Use the 15 category slugs
The sections route lists 15 slugs, such as tv, politics, opinion and crime. premium is the Mediaite One Sheet newsletter.
- Step 2
Plan around 20 stories
A category call returns up to 20 recent stories with title, URL and publication time, and optional author, summary and image. The news route returns the 20 most recent across the site.
- Step 3
Flag One Sheet pages
Mediaite One Sheet (premium) pages are flagged paywalled in article calls. Keep the flag with the record.
- Step 4
Look up an author like michael-luciano
The author route takes a slug (for example michael-luciano) or a mediaite.com author URL, exactly one, and returns name, bio, avatar, email, X handle and about 10 recent articles.
- Step 5
Compare the media beat with online
media returned 19 stories from 2026-10-26 16:50 UTC to 2026-10-27 00:32, while online returned 20 stories from 2026-10-13 to 2026-10-26. Slugs also include tv, news, entertainment, sports, podcasts and tech.
- Step 6
Do not expect images in rows
Rows had a byline and summary but no image_url, so fetch the article for the lead image.
- Step 7
Pick from 15 feeds, media first
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 15 slugs, among them media, tv, news, entertainment, sports, podcasts, tech, online. Use the listed value unchanged and record which slug produced a story; overlapping slugs mean the same article can recur.
- Step 8
Poll a 20-story strip covering 8 hours
The cross-section news route returned 20 stories from 2026-10-26 20:16 UTC to 2026-10-27 01:53 UTC, with bylines on 20 of 20, summaries on 20 of 20 and images on none of 20. It suits a quick freshness check; take full rows from a section feed.
Agent skills
Use Mediaite data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Mediaite data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Mediaite:
News media research
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-research
FAQ
Scraping Mediaite: common questions
What is the premium Mediaite section?
The Mediaite One Sheet newsletter; its pages are flagged paywalled.
How many stories does a Mediaite category return?
Up to 20.
How many recent articles does the Mediaite author route return?
About 10.
Does Mediaite include images?
Not in the section rows on 2026-10-27; they had title, url, author, summary and published_at.