News monitoring
Use The Independent endpoints to turn news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
The Independent API
Turn The Independent's public RSS section directory, headline feed, and article pages into normalized JSON for UK and world news monitoring.
Get The Independent's public section list, site-wide and per-section headlines, and full public article content as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
The Independent coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "The Independent",
"endpoint": "independent-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/independent/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit The Independent
Get The Independent's public section list, site-wide and per-section headlines, and full public article content as structured JSON.
Opinion and lifestyle content tracking
Use The Independent endpoints to turn opinion and lifestyle content tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Content aggregation
Use The Independent endpoints to turn content aggregation 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 Independent endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
5 documented The Independent endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
9 request parameters are documented across those The Independent endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 The Independent 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 Independent 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 Independent 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
/independent/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/independent/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/independent/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/independent/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/independent/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
The Independent API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/independent/articleGet The Independent article content
Returns one The Independent article by `url`, which must be a canonical HTTPS `independent.co.uk` article link. The response has the title, description, section, authors, publication and update times, lead image URL, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-21; section: “Science”.
MCP tool independent_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/independent/authorGet an Independent author profile
Returns one Independent author's profile by `slug` (for example `lizzie-dearden`) or `url`; exactly one is required. The response has name, job title, bio, X/Twitter handle and the author's recent articles with title, URL, section and section URL. It is a single page of articles with no further pagination.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 84 items, 2 fields filled in every item, 2 not. url: independent.co.uk; title: median 67 characters.
MCP tool independent_author
slug:queryurl:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/independent/headlinesGet The Independent section headlines
Returns the current headlines for one The Independent section. `section` is required and takes one of 17 slugs, such as `news/uk`, `news/world`, `sport`, `voices`, `money` or `bulletin`. Each item has its title and URL, plus summary, author, publication time and image when the outlet provides them, and the response echoes the `section`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 66 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: independent.co.uk.
MCP tool independent_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/independent/newsGet The Independent top stories
Returns the current top stories from The Independent. It takes no parameters. Each item has its title, URL and, where the outlet gives them, a summary, author, publication time, image URL and `type`. Use the headlines endpoint for one section.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 87 items, 4 fields filled in every item, 2 not. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: independent.co.uk.
MCP tool independent_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/independent/sectionsGet The Independent RSS sections
Lists the 17 The Independent section slugs that the headlines endpoint accepts, from `news` and `news/uk` to `life-style`, `voices`, `money` and `bulletin`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and a `url`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 17 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “News” and 16 other values; url: independent.co.uk.
MCP tool independent_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape The Independent
Extract The Independent data in 5 steps
The Independent is majority-owned by Evgeny Lebedev (41%), with Saudi investor Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel (30%) and Justin Byam Shaw (26%) holding most of the rest, and it went online-only in 2016. Unlike many UK papers it runs no paywall, funding itself partly through reader donations. It covers 17 sections, some nested under news/, plus a feed, headlines, articles, and author bios. Its feed was tightly current on 2026-09-24, while one section call returned just a single story.
- Step 1
Pick from 17 feeds, news first
Call /independent/sections for all 17 slugs /independent/headlines accepts, including nested paths like news/world and news/business alongside flat ones like voices, money, and bulletin.
- Step 2
Treat 92 rows as 10 hours of news
Call /independent/news for the cross-section feed. A 2026-09-24 pull returned roughly 80 items, every one published inside a single 3.7-hour window that morning — tighter than several sibling outlets' feeds in this catalog.
- Step 3
Pull news: 99 rows over 13 hours
Pass a slug from /independent/sections to /independent/headlines. Scoped to voices on the same pull, it returned just one story, a same-day advice column — don't assume every section will return a full page of results.
- Step 4
Budget 3,500 characters per article
Pass a canonical independent.co.uk URL ending in a -b<id> suffix to /independent/article for title, author, section, and body paragraphs. Bookmark prompts, membership pop-ups, newsletter sign-ups, and the comments call-to-action are left out of the paragraphs.
- Step 5
Fetch an author page for a named writer
Pass a slug or url to /independent/author for name, bio, X/Twitter handle, and recent bylines in one response.
Agent skills
Use The Independent data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull The Independent data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover The Independent:
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 Independent: common questions
Does the Independent really run without a paywall?
Yes. The Independent keeps its journalism free to read and asks readers who can afford it to donate instead of subscribing, so articles, sections, and author pages are all public.
Are section slugs always a single path segment?
No. Several are nested, such as news/world, news/business, and news/obituaries — pass them exactly as /independent/sections returns them rather than assuming a flat slug.
Does every section return a full page of headlines?
Not always — see the voices count above. Some sections publish far less volume than others, so check the result length before assuming a full page.
Who owns The Independent?
Evgeny Lebedev holds the largest stake at 41%, with Saudi investor Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel at 30% and Justin Byam Shaw at 26%. The paper dropped its print edition in 2016 and has been online-only since.
How many articles does /independent/author return?
A single page of the author's recent work. A 2026-09-24 call for business reporter Henry Saker-Clark returned more than 80 articles in one response, with no pagination field.