Game launch monitoring
Use PC Gamer endpoints to turn game launch monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
PC Gamer Scraper API
Research the PC gaming beat by separating product tests, playing guides and industry news.
Extract PC game news, reviews, hardware, mods and practical guides from PC Gamer as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
PC Gamer coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "PC Gamer",
"endpoint": "pcgamer-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/pcgamer/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit PC Gamer
Extract PC game news, reviews, hardware, mods and practical guides from PC Gamer as structured JSON.
Hardware review research
Use PC Gamer endpoints to turn hardware review research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Guide and mod trend tracking
Use PC Gamer endpoints to turn guide and mod trend tracking 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 PC Gamer endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 10 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
5 documented PC Gamer endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
10 request parameters are documented across those PC Gamer endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 PC Gamer 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
PC Gamer 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 PC Gamer 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
/pcgamer/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/pcgamer/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/pcgamer/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/pcgamer/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/pcgamer/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
PC Gamer API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/pcgamer/articleGet PC Gamer article content
Returns a PC Gamer article by canonical `pcgamer.com` `url`; review pages work the same way as news articles. The response has title, description, section, authors, lead image, publication and update times, a `paywalled` flag and body `paragraphs`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 7 of 7 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Gaming Keyboards”.
MCP tool pcgamer_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/pcgamer/authorGet a PC Gamer author profile
Returns a PC Gamer author profile by `slug` (for example `harvey-randall`) or a pcgamer.com author `url`; supply exactly one. `page` picks the 1-based page of recent articles (default 1) and overrides a `/page/<n>` segment in `url`. The response has `name`, `job_title`, `biography`, `social_links`, articles, `page` and `has_next_page`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 25 items, 3 fields filled in every item. url: pcgamer.com; title: median 106 characters.
MCP tool pcgamer_author
slug:queryurl:querypage:query+1 more
GETapiKeyexample
/pcgamer/headlinesGet PC Gamer section headlines
Returns recent PC Gamer headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes one of eight slugs: `deals`, `games`, `gaming-industry`, `guides`, `hardware`, `movies-tv`, `news` or `software`. Each item has a title and URL, and may include summary, author, publication time and image.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 135 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-04-19 to 2026-10-13; url: pcgamer.com.
MCP tool pcgamer_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/pcgamer/newsGet PC Gamer top stories
Returns the current PC Gamer top stories, with no parameters. Each item has a title and URL, and may include summary, author, publication time and image. Use `pcgamer-headlines` to read one section.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 50 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-13; url: pcgamer.com.
MCP tool pcgamer_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/pcgamer/sectionsGet PC Gamer sections
Lists the eight top-level PC Gamer sections accepted by `pcgamer-headlines`: `deals`, `games`, `gaming-industry`, `guides`, `hardware`, `movies-tv`, `news` and `software`. Each entry has its `slug`, display `name` and `url`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 8 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Deals” and 7 other values; url: pcgamer.com.
MCP tool pcgamer_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape PC Gamer
Extract PC Gamer data in 6 steps
PC Gamer is a Future publication focused on computer games and the hardware used to play them. Its review policy uses a 100-point scale, generally leaves Early Access games unscored, and says game review scores are final even when later coverage follows updates; selected hardware scores can change. Preserve review type, score, and publication date rather than comparing a guide or review-in-progress with a final verdict. The section endpoint exposes top-level hubs, while the main news endpoint uses the public RSS feed. A 2026-10-27 pull listed only 8 sections but showed very different depths: deals returned 10 stories and hardware returned 133 rows reaching back to November 2024.
- Step 1
Use eight sections
The sections route lists deals, games, gaming-industry, guides, hardware, movies-tv, news and software.
- Step 2
Include reviews in article calls
Article calls on a canonical pcgamer.com URL return title, description, section, authors, lead image, publication and update times, a paywalled flag and body paragraphs; review pages work the same way as news articles.
- Step 3
Choose the slug or the URL, not both
The author route takes a slug (for example harvey-randall) or an author URL, exactly one.
- Step 4
Mind the page parameter
page picks the 1-based page of recent articles (default 1) and overrides a /page/<n> segment in the URL.
- Step 5
Use hardware for a long archive
hardware returned 133 rows from 2024-11-27 to 2026-10-26 with bylines and images but no summaries. deals returned 10 stories from 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-24, so it needs a slower interval.
- Step 6
Use the news route for summaries
The news route returned 50 stories from 2026-10-24 14:00 UTC to 2026-10-27 00:18, each with a byline, summary and image. Other slugs are games, gaming-industry, guides, movies-tv and software.
Agent skills
Use PC Gamer data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull PC Gamer data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover PC Gamer:
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FAQ
Scraping PC Gamer: common questions
Do PC Gamer review pages work with the article route?
Yes. Review pages work the same way as news articles.
How does PC Gamer author paging work?
A 1-based page parameter, default 1, overrides any /page/<n> segment in the URL.
How many PC Gamer sections are there?
Eight top-level slugs.
How far back can a PC Gamer section go?
On 2026-10-27 hardware returned 133 rows back to 2024-11-27, while deals returned 10 rows from the last week.