AI & tech-policy monitoring
Use The Atlantic endpoints to turn ai & tech-policy monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn The Atlantic into structured JSON — full article content and metadata, fresh headlines across 13 Ideas, Politics, Technology, and Culture sections, and contributor profiles, all from canonical theatlantic.com URLs.
Get The Atlantic article content, headlines across 13 Ideas, Politics, Technology, and Culture sections, and contributor profiles as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
4
Documented params
7
Examples
4
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
4
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
4
{
"platform": "The Atlantic",
"endpoint": "theatlantic-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/theatlantic/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Get The Atlantic article content, headlines across 13 Ideas, Politics, Technology, and Culture sections, and contributor profiles as structured JSON.
Use The Atlantic endpoints to turn ai & tech-policy monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Atlantic endpoints to turn section and topic research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Atlantic 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 Atlantic endpoint catalog — 4 endpoints, 7 documented request parameters, and 4 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
4 documented The Atlantic endpoints, grouped into 4 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 1 more.
7 request parameters are documented across those The Atlantic endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
4 of the 4 The Atlantic endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 4 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
The Atlantic endpoints document their error responses (400, 403, 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.
4 hosted MCP tools back the The Atlantic endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/theatlantic/article
/theatlantic/author
/theatlantic/headlines
/theatlantic/sections
Endpoint catalog
/theatlantic/articleReturns one public Atlantic article's metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. `metered` reflects the site's own soft-paywall flag for that article; the body returned here is the same one the site's own page serves to an anonymous visitor and is never truncated because of it. An article whose page genuinely withholds its body is reported as a restricted-access error instead of a hollow response.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 11 of 11 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-22; section: “Politics”.
MCP tool theatlantic_article
/theatlantic/authorReturns one Atlantic staff author's public profile -- name, headshot, and biography -- plus their recent articles, from a canonical author URL.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-07-14 to 2026-10-01; url: theatlantic.com.
MCP tool theatlantic_author
/theatlantic/headlinesReturns the current front-page article cards for one Atlantic section: each story's title, canonical URL, description, byline, publication time, and lead image. Section must be a slug returned by /theatlantic/sections.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-12; url: theatlantic.com.
MCP tool theatlantic_headlines
/theatlantic/sectionsLists every top-level Atlantic section accepted by /theatlantic/headlines, with its slug, display name, and landing-page URL. Values: `ideas`, `politics`, `economy`, `international`, `national-security`, `technology`, `science`, `health`, `education`, `culture`, `family`, `books`, `photography`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 13 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Ideas” and 12 other values; url: theatlantic.com.
MCP tool theatlantic_sections
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How to scrape The Atlantic
Crawlora's The Atlantic endpoints read theatlantic.com and return JSON for articles, section headlines, and contributor profiles. The Atlantic organizes coverage into 13 sections — Ideas, Politics, Economy, Global, National Security, Technology, Science, Health, Education, Culture, Family, Books, and Photography — and the Technology section carried 10 stories between September 12 and September 23, 2026, largely a running debate over AI-safety 'doomerism' from Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, and Kara Swisher. Article JSON includes a metered boolean flagging The Atlantic's metered paywall, plus a tags array distinct from its section taxonomy. A pull on 2026-10-27 showed only 13 sections starting with ideas, and the headlines route requires one of them.
/theatlantic/sections returns all 13 sections (Ideas, Politics, Economy, Global, National Security, Technology, Science, Health, Education, Culture, Family, Books, Photography); /theatlantic/headlines takes a slug like technology or culture and returns title, url, author, description, image_url, and published_at.
/theatlantic/article returns title, section, authors, published_at, updated_at, a tags array, the body as paragraphs, and a metered flag for paywall status.
/theatlantic/author returns name, a biography string, headshot_url, and a list of the contributor's articles; The Atlantic relies heavily on freelance bylines, so the list is often short.
sections returned 13 entries, the first ideas (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/). headlines has a required section parameter, so a no-section call fails.
With 13 slugs, topic filtering (politics, technology, health) has to happen in your pipeline over the section feeds you pull.
Agent skills
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull The Atlantic data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover The Atlantic:
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
/theatlantic/sections returns 13: Ideas, Politics, Economy, Global, National Security, Technology, Science, Health, Education, Culture, Family, Books, and Photography.
Yes, via a metered boolean — The Atlantic uses a metered paywall rather than a hard content-locked gate.
A short list of topic tags distinct from the section field — a recent China-AI feature carried 6 tags including "artificial intelligence," "People's Republic of China," and "science and technology."
/theatlantic/author returns a single biography string plus headshot_url and the contributor's recent articles — many Atlantic bylines are freelance contributors with just one or two pieces on file.
/theatlantic/headlines for technology returned 10 stories over an 11-day window when queried, centered on the AI-safety 'pacing' debate among Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang.
No. section is required, and the 2026-10-27 sections list held 13 slugs.