Indian institutions research
Use Indian Express endpoints to turn indian institutions research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
The Indian Express Scraper API
The Indian Express is the Indian Express Group's national publication. Follow India, cities, explained, business, sports, entertainment, and legal reporting through structured public feeds and article records for Indian institutions research.
Extract Indian politics, judiciary coverage, explainers, investigations, and regional editions from The Indian Express with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Indian Express coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "Indian Express",
"endpoint": "indianexpress-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/indianexpress/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit Indian Express
Extract Indian politics, judiciary coverage, explainers, investigations, and regional editions from The Indian Express with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Indian Express section and headline tracking
Use Indian Express endpoints to turn indian express section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Article and byline research for India legal, policy, and regional-news researchers
Use Indian Express endpoints to turn article and byline research for india legal, policy, and regional-news 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 Indian Express 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 Indian Express endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
8 request parameters are documented across those Indian Express endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 Indian Express 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
Indian Express 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 Indian Express 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
/indianexpress/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/indianexpress/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/indianexpress/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/indianexpress/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/indianexpress/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Indian Express API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/indianexpress/articleGet The Indian Express article content
Returns public The Indian Express article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. A story gated behind an Express Premium subscription returns a permission error instead of a truncated or paid body.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Delhi,Cities”.
MCP tool indianexpress_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/indianexpress/authorGet a The Indian Express author profile
Returns a The Indian Express author's profile by `url`, a canonical `indianexpress.com/profile/author/<slug>/` link: name, image URL, biography and recent articles with title, URL, summary and image. `image_url` and `biography` may be missing, and `published_at` is the page's date text such as `Sep 24, 2026 16:36 IST`, not a timestamp.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 25 items, 5 fields filled in every item. url: indianexpress.com; title: median 81 characters.
MCP tool indianexpress_author
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/indianexpress/headlinesGet The Indian Express section headlines
Returns the current headlines for one The Indian Express section. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `india`, `explained`, `cities-delhi`, `entertainment-bollywood`, `sports-cricket` or `political-pulse`. Items carry title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image, and the response echoes the `section`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 200 items, 4 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-13; url: indianexpress.com.
MCP tool indianexpress_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/indianexpress/newsGet The Indian Express top stories
Returns the current top stories from The Indian Express. 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 to read one section.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 200 items, 4 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: indianexpress.com.
MCP tool indianexpress_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/indianexpress/sectionsGet The Indian Express RSS sections
Lists the The Indian Express section slugs that the headlines endpoint accepts, including `politics`, `india`, `explained`, `cities-mumbai`, `entertainment-tamil`, `lifestyle-health` and `smart-stocks`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and a section `url`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 56 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Politics” and 55 other values; url: indianexpress.com.
MCP tool indianexpress_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape Indian Express
Extract Indian Express data in 4 steps
The Indian Express combines Indian national reporting with investigations, judiciary coverage, regional editions, and its Explained format. These formats are particularly useful for institutional research: an investigation may reveal a new finding, while an explainer supplies background on an existing policy or court matter. Keep format, city, institution, and date alongside every article so those roles remain clear in downstream analysis. On 2026-10-25 the documented list held more than 50 RSS slugs, among them ten metro city desks (cities-delhi to cities-bangalore), entertainment split by language and upsc-current-affairs. That last feed returned 200 items from 2026-09-11 to 2026-10-25, 178 with a named author, with article URLs under /article/upsc-current-affairs/ paths such as upsc-essentials, mixing daily quizzes, Knowledge Nugget explainers and ethics case studies.
- Step 1
Pick a city desk or a language desk
/indianexpress/sections lists cities-delhi, cities-mumbai, cities-chennai, cities-hyderabad and more, plus entertainment-tamil, entertainment-telugu and entertainment-malayalam. A city desk and the national india slug cover different stories, so keep them as separate feeds.
- Step 2
Size the exam-prep feed before storing it
upsc-current-affairs returned 200 items across six weeks on 2026-10-25, far more than a typical section call. Page by published_at and label each item by format: weekly quizzes, Knowledge Nugget explainers and ethics case studies are study material, not news.
- Step 3
Handle missing authors
22 of the 200 items had no author field. Fall back to the article page, and do not group the blanks under one contributor.
- Step 4
Open the article and treat Explained as analysis
Pass a canonical public URL to /indianexpress/article and use /indianexpress/author for the named contributor when available. Treat an Explained article as analysis of an issue rather than a newly occurring event, and keep the opinion and long-reads slugs as separate content types.
Agent skills
Use Indian Express data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Indian Express data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Indian Express:
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FAQ
Scraping Indian Express: common questions
How big is the Indian Express UPSC feed?
200 items on 2026-10-25, spanning 2026-09-11 to 2026-10-25, with 178 carrying an author. Paginate by date rather than assuming a fixed window.
Are UPSC current-affairs items news reports?
No. The sample was quizzes, Knowledge Nugget explainers and ethics case studies aimed at exam preparation. Tag them as study content and keep them out of event counts.
Which Indian Express slugs are city desks?
ten: delhi, mumbai, kolkata, pune, chandigarh, ahmedabad, lucknow, chennai, hyderabad and bangalore, each prefixed with cities-.
Does The Indian Express offer a developer API?
No self-serve API exists. Its only documented data-access routes are enterprise deals — a reported 2026 content-licensing agreement with OpenAI for ChatGPT discovery and participation in Google News Showcase India — not programmatic access for outside developers.