Melbourne regional intelligence
Use The Age endpoints to turn melbourne regional intelligence into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
The Age Scraper API
The Age is Nine Entertainment's Melbourne newspaper. Follow Victoria, Melbourne, national, business, culture, and sports desks through structured public feeds and article records for Melbourne regional intelligence.
Extract Victoria and Melbourne reporting on politics, business, culture, sport, and investigations from The Age with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
The Age coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "The Age",
"endpoint": "theage-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/theage/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit The Age
Extract Victoria and Melbourne reporting on politics, business, culture, sport, and investigations from The Age with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
The Age section and headline tracking
Use The Age endpoints to turn the age section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Article and byline research for Victorian policy and local-market researchers
Use The Age endpoints to turn article and byline research for victorian policy and local-market researchers 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 The Age endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
5 documented The Age endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
8 request parameters are documented across those The Age endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 The Age 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
The Age 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 The Age 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
/theage/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/theage/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/theage/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/theage/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/theage/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
The Age API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/theage/articleGet The Age article content
Returns one The Age article's public metadata and the body paragraphs an anonymous visitor's page request is served, from a canonical article URL. The Age runs a metered subscription paywall; the response reports it with is_accessible_for_free (the page's own declaration), paywalled (the page marks the story as subscriber content), and is_truncated (the page served a shortened preview, or no body at all, instead of the full story). Paywalls are never bypassed and body text is never fabricated. Video-only pages are rejected with a 400.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 13 of 13 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “politics/federal”.
MCP tool theage_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/theage/authorGet an Age journalist profile
Returns an Age journalist's public profile -- name, short biography, headshot, contact email and social links where published -- plus their recent stories, from a canonical https://www.theage.com.au/by/<name>-<id> URL.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-09-24 to 2026-10-13; url: theage.com.au.
MCP tool theage_author
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/theage/headlinesGet The Age section headlines
Returns the current stories for one The Age section: title, canonical URL, summary, author, publication time, and image where the section lists them. section must be one of the slugs returned by /theage/sections; any other value is rejected with a 400 before The Age is contacted.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 5 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-13; url: theage.com.au.
MCP tool theage_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/theage/newsGet The Age top stories
Returns The Age's current "Latest News" public RSS feed: each story's title, canonical URL, summary, author, publication time, and lead image.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 5 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: theage.com.au.
MCP tool theage_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/theage/sectionsGet The Age sections
Lists every The Age section accepted by /theage/headlines (96 sections from the site's own section menu), each with its slug, display name, and public section-front URL.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 96 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Melbourne” and 95 other values; url: theage.com.au.
MCP tool theage_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape The Age
Extract The Age data in 6 steps
The Age is Nine Entertainment's Melbourne newspaper, reporting on Victoria and Melbourne alongside national politics, business, investigations, culture, and sport. For Australian policy research, the distinction between a Victorian measure and a federal decision is central. Its regional and topic feeds provide candidate stories, while the article body provides the jurisdiction, institutions, and dates needed for dependable classification. On 2026-10-25 the documented list ran to around a hundred slugs, with nested paths such as politics/victoria, sport/afl and goodfood/recipes. The melbourne-news feed returned 21 items with no published_at at all; dates appear only in the URL (for example ...-20261025-p618ci.html), and its first URL slug described a different story from its headline. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 96-slug section list and the cross-section feed.
- Step 1
Parse the date from the URL
melbourne-news items had no published_at field. Read the eight-digit date before the -p id in the URL (20261025), and cross-check the article page when you need a time.
- Step 2
Expect state-level paths
/theage/sections includes national/victoria, politics/victoria, politics/federal, business/markets and environment/climate-change. The Melbourne feed also returned items under /national/victoria/, /politics/victoria/ and /lifestyle/.
- Step 3
Store the headline, not the slug
The weather story's URL began cloud-over-motogp-as-wild-weather-hits-victoria while its headline read Soggy streets, icy winds. Keep the response title and canonical URL together.
- Step 4
Budget 6,300 characters per article
Pass a canonical public URL to /theage/article and use /theage/author for the named contributor when available. Some feed items lacked an author, so fall back to the article page.
- Step 5
Ninety-six nested slugs
The Age lists 96 slugs such as melbourne-news, national/victoria, politics/federal, politics/victoria and business/companies. On 2026-10-30 melbourne-news returned 23 headlines with no timestamps and national/victoria 20 from 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-30, none overlapping the 20-story strip. Article samples carry paywalled, is_truncated and keywords fields (32 paragraphs, about 6,300 characters).
- Step 6
Poll a 20-story strip covering about an hour
The cross-section news route returned 20 stories from 2026-10-27 07:15 UTC to 2026-10-27 08:11 UTC, with bylines on 11 of 20, summaries on 20 of 20 and images on 20 of 20. It is a convenient index of recent stories rather than a complete archive.
Agent skills
Use The Age data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull The Age data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover The Age:
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FAQ
Scraping The Age: common questions
Why is published_at missing for The Age headlines?
On 2026-10-25 the melbourne-news items carried none. The URL has a YYYYMMDD stamp, which gives a date but no time.
Can I rely on The Age URL slugs for titles?
No. The first melbourne-news item's URL slug named a MotoGP weather story while the headline was about a cold snap.
Which slugs cover Victoria politics?
politics/victoria and national/victoria both appear, along with politics/federal and the other state paths. Query them separately.