Ireland explanatory-news monitoring
Use TheJournal.ie endpoints to turn ireland explanatory-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
TheJournal.ie Scraper API
TheJournal.ie is an Irish digital-native newsroom. Follow Ireland, world, politics, business, fact check, and explainer coverage through structured public feeds and article records for Ireland explanatory-news monitoring.
Extract Irish breaking news, explainers, fact checking, public interest, and community reporting from TheJournal.ie with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
TheJournal.ie coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "TheJournal.ie",
"endpoint": "thejournal-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/thejournal/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit TheJournal.ie
Extract Irish breaking news, explainers, fact checking, public interest, and community reporting from TheJournal.ie with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
TheJournal.ie section and headline tracking
Use TheJournal.ie endpoints to turn thejournal.ie section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Article and byline research for Irish civic, policy, and verification researchers
Use TheJournal.ie endpoints to turn article and byline research for irish civic, policy, and verification 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 TheJournal.ie 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 TheJournal.ie endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
9 request parameters are documented across those TheJournal.ie endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 TheJournal.ie 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
TheJournal.ie endpoints document their error responses (400, 404 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 TheJournal.ie 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
/thejournal/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/thejournal/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/thejournal/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/thejournal/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/thejournal/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
TheJournal.ie API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/thejournal/articleGet TheJournal.ie article content
Returns public TheJournal.ie article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Stories are served in full to anonymous readers, so paywalled is never set.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Great News”.
MCP tool thejournal_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/thejournal/authorGet a TheJournal.ie author page
Returns one TheJournal.ie author's public archive page: name, numeric author id, and the most recent articles the first page lists.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 35 items, 3 fields filled in every item, 2 not. url: thejournal.ie; title: median 78 characters.
MCP tool thejournal_author
slug:queryurl:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/thejournal/headlinesGet TheJournal.ie section headlines
Returns current headlines from one public TheJournal.ie section listing page, with the story type label, summary and image when the page shows them.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 37 items, 2 fields filled in every item, 4 not. type: “White House” and 27 other values; url: thejournal.ie.
MCP tool thejournal_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/thejournal/newsGet TheJournal.ie top stories
Returns the latest TheJournal.ie stories across all sections. Each item has a title, canonical URL, short summary, publication time (RFC 3339, UTC) and lead image. Items carry no author byline; the article endpoint supplies it. It takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 39 items, 4 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: thejournal.ie.
MCP tool thejournal_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/thejournal/sectionsGet TheJournal.ie sections
Lists the 22 TheJournal.ie sections that the headlines endpoint accepts, verified 2026-09-25: nine category pages such as `irish`, `politics` and `business`, plus topic pages such as `housing`, `courts`, `ukraine` and `gaza`. Each entry has a `slug`, `name` and listing page `url`. Topic pages outside the site navigation are not served.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 22 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Irish News” and 21 other values; url: thejournal.ie.
MCP tool thejournal_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape TheJournal.ie
Extract TheJournal.ie data in 6 steps
TheJournal.ie is an Irish digital-native newsroom known for breaking reports, explainers, fact checks, and public-interest coverage. Those formats serve different research purposes: a fact check evaluates a circulating claim, while an explainer supplies background to a policy debate. Preserve the format and the claim being examined so a verification dataset does not count the false assertion as a confirmed event. On 2026-10-25 the factcheck feed returned 40 items from July to October 2026 with no published_at: the month sits in the URL suffix (-Oct2026), titles carry a prefix (Debunked, FactCheck, Explainer, FactFind) and the type field varies. At least six titles concern AI-generated or deepfake media. The documented list holds 22 slugs, including investigates, cost-of-living, housing and ukraine. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 22-slug section list and the cross-section feed.
- Step 1
Take the month from the URL suffix
The factcheck items had no timestamps. The URL ends in a month tag (-Oct2026, -Sep2026), which is enough for monthly counts but not for ordering within a month.
- Step 2
Classify by title prefix
Debunked, FactCheck, Explainer and FactFind label different formats: a debunk of a viral claim, a check of a politician's claim, and an explainer. Store the prefix with the record.
- Step 3
Tag manipulated-media items
Six titles in the sample concern AI-generated or deepfake media, including a Pink Panther rioter image and a Zuckerberg water video. Use them as their own category.
- Step 4
Parse a 15-paragraph body
Pass a canonical public URL to /thejournal/article and use /thejournal/author for the named contributor when available. The numeric id before the month tag is a stable key. The publisher says significant additions and factual corrections are described at the bottom of a FactCheck, and verdict changes are explained in the article.
- Step 5
Twenty-two slugs, including Irish-language
TheJournal.ie lists 22 slugs (irish, politics, international, business, tech, science, environment, voices, investigates, factcheck, explainer, gaeilge, sport, money-diaries). On 2026-10-30 irish returned 41 headlines and politics 43, mostly with images (38 and 41) but few summaries (6 and 5).
- Step 6
Watch for an epoch timestamp
The cross-section news route returned 39 stories with summaries and images and no bylines, and its oldest published_at was 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z, an empty timestamp, while the newest was 2026-10-30 00:10 UTC. Treat the epoch value as missing; 27 of the irish section's 41 headlines were also in the strip.
Agent skills
Use TheJournal.ie data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull TheJournal.ie data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover TheJournal.ie:
News media research
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FAQ
Scraping TheJournal.ie: common questions
How do I date a TheJournal.ie fact check?
From the URL month tag. On 2026-10-25 the factcheck items had no published_at field.
What is the difference between Debunked and FactCheck?
Debunked marks a viral claim shown to be false, FactCheck tests a claim, often a politician's, and Explainer sets out a topic. Keep the prefix.
Does factcheck cover only Irish claims?
No. The sample included a Danish election post, Nepal flood videos and Ceuta migration claims.