News monitoring
Use The Sun endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn The Sun's public RSS feed, section pages, and article pages into normalized JSON for UK tabloid news monitoring.
Get The Sun's public section list, site-wide and per-section headlines, and full public article content 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": "The Sun",
"endpoint": "sun-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/sun/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get The Sun's public section list, site-wide and per-section headlines, and full public article content as structured JSON.
Use The Sun endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Sun endpoints to turn uk tabloid coverage tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Sun endpoints to turn content aggregation into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live The Sun endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented The Sun endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those The Sun endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 The Sun endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
The Sun 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 The Sun endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/sun/article
/sun/author
/sun/headlines
/sun/news
/sun/sections
Endpoint catalog
/sun/articleReturns one The Sun article by `url`, a canonical HTTPS article link. The response has the title, description, section, authors, publication and update times, lead image URL, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag. Subscriber-only or blocked pages return an error instead.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 8 of 8 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-10-13; section: “News”.
MCP tool sun_article
/sun/authorReturns a Sun author's profile by `url`, a canonical `thesun.co.uk/author/<slug>/` link: name, job title, bio and recent articles with title, URL, excerpt, category and category URL. `job_title` is often empty because most Sun bylines carry only a name and bio.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 18 items, 4 fields filled in every item, 1 not. url: thesun.co.uk; title: median 75 characters.
MCP tool sun_author
/sun/headlinesReturns the current headlines for one The Sun section. `section` is required and takes one of `news`, `politics`, `royal-family`, `sport`, `showbiz`, `money`, `tech`, `fabulous`, `travel` or `health`. Every item has its title and URL. The `news` section also carries summary, author, publication time and image when the outlet provides them.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 14 items, 5 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: thesun.co.uk.
MCP tool sun_headlines
/sun/newsReturns the current top stories from The Sun. It takes no parameters. Each item has its title, URL and, where available, a summary, author, publication time, image URL and `type`. Use the headlines endpoint to read one section.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 14 items, 5 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: thesun.co.uk.
MCP tool sun_news
/sun/sectionsLists the The Sun sections that the headlines endpoint accepts, such as `news`, `politics`, `royal-family`, `sport`, `showbiz`, `money`, `tech`, `fabulous`, `travel` and `health`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and a section `url`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “News” and 9 other values; url: thesun.co.uk.
MCP tool sun_sections
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How to scrape The Sun
The Sun's home feed mixes hard news with institutions like the Mystic Meg horoscope column, which has run daily for decades — the 22 September 2026 edition, bylined Maggie Hyde, published at 23:01:00 and was revised 42 seconds later at 23:01:42. Crawlora's four endpoints return The Sun's ten sections, that feed, per-section headlines, and articles as normalized JSON.
/sun/sections returns the full 10-slug list /sun/headlines accepts — news, politics, royal-family, sport, showbiz, money, tech, fabulous, travel, and health.
/sun/news reads The Sun's public home RSS feed. On 2026-09-22 it ranged from a knifepoint-abduction crime story to World Darts Championship ticket deals and a Mystic Meg horoscope, each carrying an author, image_url, and published_at.
Pass a slug from /sun/sections to /sun/headlines. Most sections parse a public category page; news reads the same home RSS feed as /sun/news. Coverage depth varies by section and day — showbiz returned a single headline on 2026-09-22, and royal-family returned none, since The Sun's category pages aren't always populated at request time.
Pass a canonical numeric-id URL to /sun/article for title, author, section, and body paragraphs. Mystic Meg's 22 September horoscope column, bylined Maggie Hyde and tagged section: Fabulous, was revised 42 seconds after its initial publish.
Agent skills
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull The Sun data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover The Sun:
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
10 — news, politics, royal-family, sport, showbiz, money, tech, fabulous, travel, and health — call /sun/sections for the live list.
The site-wide feed and the news section both read The Sun's public home RSS feed; the remaining sections are parsed from their public category page. RSS/Atom items are filtered so video-only entries aren't returned as article links.
The URL must end in a numeric article id, the format The Sun assigns each published article, for example thesun.co.uk/fabulous/40451644/horoscope-star-sign-mystic-meg-maggie-hyde-september-22.
No. These endpoints read The Sun's public RSS feed, category pages, and article pages — no login or subscription is bypassed. Crawlora API authentication still applies.
Not reliably. Coverage volume tracks what The Sun's own category pages hold at request time — on 2026-09-22 showbiz returned just one headline and royal-family returned none, even though both sections exist in /sun/sections and can be populated at other times.