Indian policy-news analysis
Use The Hindu endpoints to turn indian policy-news analysis into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
The Hindu Scraper API
The Hindu is Kasturi & Sons' Indian newspaper. Follow India, world, business, science, sport, opinion, and city desks through structured public feeds and article records for Indian policy-news analysis.
Extract Indian public affairs, policy, international news, editorial analysis, and culture from The Hindu with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
The Hindu coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "The Hindu",
"endpoint": "thehindu-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/thehindu/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit The Hindu
Extract Indian public affairs, policy, international news, editorial analysis, and culture from The Hindu with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
The Hindu section and headline tracking
Use The Hindu endpoints to turn the hindu section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Article and byline research for India policy, education, and public-affairs researchers
Use The Hindu endpoints to turn article and byline research for india policy, education, and public-affairs 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 Hindu 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 Hindu endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
8 request parameters are documented across those The Hindu 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 Hindu 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 Hindu 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.
Agent-callable MCP tools
5 hosted MCP tools back the The Hindu 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
/thehindu/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/thehindu/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/thehindu/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/thehindu/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/thehindu/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
The Hindu API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/thehindu/articleGet The Hindu article content
Returns public The Hindu article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. A story The Hindu marks subscriber-only returns a permission error instead of a body.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Keralam”.
MCP tool thehindu_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/thehindu/authorGet a The Hindu author profile
Returns a The Hindu author's byline metadata, biography, contact/social links, and their most recent articles from a canonical author URL.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 14 items, 3 fields filled in every item. url: thehindu.com; title: median 56 characters.
MCP tool thehindu_author
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/thehindu/headlinesGet The Hindu section headlines
Returns the current headlines for one The Hindu section. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `news-national`, `opinion-editorial`, `business-markets`, `sport-cricket` or `sci-tech-health`. Items carry the title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image, and the response echoes the `section`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 60 items, 3 fields filled in every item, 2 not. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: thehindu.com.
MCP tool thehindu_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/thehindu/newsGet The Hindu top stories
Returns the current stories from The Hindu's Latest News listing. It takes no parameters. Each item has its title, URL and, where available, a summary, author, publication time, image URL and `type`. For a single desk such as cricket or business, use the headlines endpoint.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 60 items, 3 fields filled in every item, 2 not. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: thehindu.com.
MCP tool thehindu_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/thehindu/sectionsGet The Hindu sections
Lists the The Hindu section slugs that the headlines endpoint accepts, covering news, opinion, business, sport, entertainment, sci-tech, education, life and style, society, books and food, for example `news-national`, `sport-cricket` and `food-recipes`. Each entry has a `slug`, `name` and `url`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 68 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “News” and 67 other values; url: thehindu.com.
MCP tool thehindu_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape The Hindu
Extract The Hindu data in 6 steps
The Hindu, published by Kasturi & Sons, is an Indian newspaper with a strong public-affairs and policy readership. It covers India, world affairs, business, science, sport, city reporting, and editorial analysis. A research corpus can compare a national policy announcement with the paper's subsequent analysis, but only if the article type and geographic desk are preserved instead of merging both into one event count. On 2026-10-25 a news-cities headlines call returned about 50 items spanning only 16 hours, from 2026-10-24 19:06 UTC to 2026-10-25 11:24 UTC, covering Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai, Kochi, Bengaluru and Puducherry. Two reader-letter items carried URLs with an embedded cue.thehindu fragment, so the trailing article id is the stable key. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 68-slug section list and the cross-section feed.
- Step 1
Choose the nested slug that fits
/thehindu/sections lists parent and child slugs such as news-cities, news-national, business-markets, sport-cricket, opinion-lead and sci-tech-technology. news-cities is a high-volume city-desk stream.
- Step 2
Bound the window instead of paging by count
The news-cities sample covered about 16 hours, so a day's pull will exceed one response. Record the oldest published_at you received and repeat before the next collection.
- Step 3
Key on the article id
Two Readers Write items had URLs beginning httpscuecsappthehinducoincue-webmainuri... and ending article71620084.ece. Extract the trailing article<digits>.ece and keep the full URL for access checks.
- Step 4
Check access limits, then resolve the contributor
Pass a canonical public URL to /thehindu/article for public article text and metadata; subscriber-only content may be unavailable or return an access error. Use /thehindu/author for the contributor record when available, and attribute opinion to its columnist or the paper.
- Step 5
Choose among 68 section slugs
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 68 slugs, among them news, news-national, news-international, news-states, news-cities, opinion, opinion-editorial, opinion-cartoon. Use the listed value unchanged and record which slug produced a story; overlapping slugs mean the same article can recur.
- Step 6
Treat the strip and the news slug as one feed
The Hindu lists 68 slugs, many prefixed (news-national, news-international, opinion-editorial, opinion-op-ed). On 2026-10-30 the cross-section strip returned 60 stories from 2026-10-30 01:12 to 05:00 UTC with summaries on 57 and images on 55 and no bylines, and 42 of the 60 headlines in the news section were the same stories.
Agent skills
Use The Hindu data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull The Hindu data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover The Hindu:
News media research
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-research
FAQ
Scraping The Hindu: common questions
How much does one news-cities call return?
About 50 items on 2026-10-25, covering a 16-hour span. That is a rolling window, not a full day archive.
Why do some The Hindu URLs look malformed?
Two reader-letter items in the sample embedded a cue.thehindu fragment in the path. The trailing article id still identifies the story.
Which slugs separate editorials from reports?
opinion-editorial, opinion-lead, opinion-columns and opinion-letters are separate from news and city desks. Keep them as different content types.