UK breaking-news monitoring
Use Metro endpoints to turn uk breaking-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Follow Metro’s concise UK reporting across news, sport, showbiz, TV soaps, gaming, money, travel, food, and commuter-friendly daily features.
Extract Metro UK news, sport, entertainment, lifestyle, articles, and author profiles as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Metro",
"endpoint": "metro-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/metro/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Metro UK news, sport, entertainment, lifestyle, articles, and author profiles as structured JSON.
Use Metro endpoints to turn uk breaking-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Metro endpoints to turn entertainment and tv tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Metro endpoints to turn consumer and lifestyle coverage into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Metro endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Metro endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those Metro endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Metro endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Metro 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.
5 hosted MCP tools back the Metro endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/metro/article
/metro/author
/metro/headlines
/metro/news
/metro/sections
Endpoint catalog
/metro/sectionsLists the 42 Metro section slugs accepted by `metro-headlines`, each with its display name and URL. Slugs include `uk`, `football`, `showbiz` and `coronation-street`. `home` is the site-wide stream, the same stories as `metro-news`, and parent sections such as `news` and `sport` aggregate their child sections.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 42 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Home” and 41 other values; url: metro.co.uk.
MCP tool metro_sections
/metro/newsReturns fresh Metro (metro.co.uk) top stories from the site's public RSS feed, with summary, author, publish time, and lead image when present.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 19 items, 5 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: metro.co.uk.
MCP tool metro_news
/metro/headlinesReturns fresh headlines from one public Metro section feed. The section must be a slug returned by the sections endpoint.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 21 items, 5 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: metro.co.uk.
MCP tool metro_headlines
/metro/articleReturns public Metro article metadata (headline, description, section, authors, publish/update times, lead image) and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Metro articles are free to read; live-blog entries are included in the body.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Politics”.
MCP tool metro_article
/metro/authorReturns a Metro author's name, job title, biography, topic areas, social links, and most recent articles from a canonical author URL.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 27 items, 3 fields filled in every item, 2 not. published_at: 2026-09-20 to 2026-10-13; url: metro.co.uk.
MCP tool metro_author
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How to scrape Metro
Metro is a dmg media UK brand launched in 1999 for an urban commuter audience. Its 42 supported RSS sections include UK and world news, sport, showbiz, TV soaps, gaming, money, property, food, travel, and lifestyle. Use the publisher’s lifestyle subcategory where possible, since property, food, travel, and money pages are separate editorial products rather than a single generic features feed. On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 42 slugs, with the home feed returning 30 stories and a summary on 22 of them. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 42-slug section list and the cross-section feed.
The sections route lists 42 slugs, including uk, football, showbiz and coronation-street. home is the site-wide stream, the same stories as the news route.
Metro articles are free to read, and live-blog entries are included in the body.
Article calls return headline, description, section, authors, publish and update times, lead image and body paragraphs.
The author route returns name, job title, biography, topic areas, social links and most recent articles.
home returned 30 stories from 2026-10-26 17:17 UTC to 2026-10-27 01:10 with bylines and images but summaries on only 22, while gaming returned 29 stories all with summaries.
gaming spanned 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-27, about six days, against under nine hours for home. Other slugs include news, uk, world, us, politics, tech and weird.
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 42 slugs, among them home, news, uk, world, us, politics, tech, weird. 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 30 stories from 2026-10-26 17:17 UTC to 2026-10-27 01:10 UTC, with bylines on 30 of 30, summaries on 22 of 30 and images on 30 of 30. Treat it as a recent strip and fetch section feeds or articles for fuller fields.
Agent skills
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Metro data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Metro:
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
home is the site-wide stream, the same stories as the news route.
Yes. Live-blog entries are included in the article body.
Topic areas, alongside name, job title, biography, social links and recent articles.
No. Only 22 of 30 home stories did on 2026-10-27, while gaming's 29 all did.