Indian city and national tracking
Use Times of India endpoints to turn indian city and national tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
Times of India Scraper API
Times of India is Times Group's flagship Indian publication. Follow India, city, business, cricket, technology, entertainment, and lifestyle feeds through structured public feeds and article records for Indian city and national tracking.
Extract Indian national news, city editions, business, cricket, entertainment, and lifestyle from Times of India with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Times of India coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "Times of India",
"endpoint": "timesofindia-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/timesofindia/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit Times of India
Extract Indian national news, city editions, business, cricket, entertainment, and lifestyle from Times of India with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Times of India section and headline tracking
Use Times of India endpoints to turn times of india section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Article and byline research for India consumer, city, and national-news researchers
Use Times of India endpoints to turn article and byline research for india consumer, city, and national-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 Times of India 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 Times of India endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
8 request parameters are documented across those Times of India endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 Times of India 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
Times of India 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 Times of India 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
/timesofindia/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/timesofindia/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/timesofindia/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/timesofindia/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/timesofindia/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Times of India API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/timesofindia/articleGet The Times of India article content
Returns public Times of India article metadata (title, author(s), published/updated dates, section, lead image) and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. A story gated behind a subscription returns a permission error instead of a truncated or fabricated body.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “business”.
MCP tool timesofindia_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/timesofindia/authorGet a Times of India author profile
Returns a Times of India reporter's profile by `url`, a canonical `timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-<name>-<id>.cms` link: name, job title, organization, location, email, biography, headshot and recent articles with title and URL. Fields the profile page does not publish may be empty.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 30 items, 2 fields filled in every item. url: timesofindia.indiatimes.com; title: median 96 characters.
MCP tool timesofindia_author
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/timesofindia/headlinesGet The Times of India section headlines
Returns the current headlines for one Times of India section or city edition. `section` is required, for example `top-stories`, `india`, `world`, `business`, `cricket`, `mumbai`, `delhi` or `bangalore`. Items carry the title and URL, plus summary, author, publication time and image when the outlet provides them.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 19 items, 4 fields filled in every item, 2 not. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
MCP tool timesofindia_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/timesofindia/newsGet The Times of India top stories
Returns the current Times of India top stories. It takes no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time with its UTC offset, author and image URL. Use the headlines endpoint for a section or city edition.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 44 items, 5 fields filled in every item, 1 not. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
MCP tool timesofindia_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/timesofindia/sectionsGet The Times of India sections
Lists the 55 Times of India sections that the headlines endpoint accepts, covering national and international topics such as `india`, `world`, `business` and `cricket`, and India city editions such as `mumbai`, `delhi` and `bangalore`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and the section feed `url`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 55 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “Top Stories” and 54 other values; url: timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
MCP tool timesofindia_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape Times of India
Extract Times of India data in 6 steps
The Times of India is the Times Group's flagship Indian publication, with national news, city editions, cricket, technology, entertainment, business, and lifestyle. Its breadth makes city context essential: a municipal announcement can sit beside a federal policy story and a nationwide celebrity item. Store the edition or section, then verify geography and topic from the article before counting coverage for a local market. On 2026-10-25 the documented list held 54 slugs, 31 of them city desks from mumbai to thiruvananthapuram. The nri feed returned 20 items from 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-24, but only one URL sat under /nri/: 16 were under /world/us/, two under /world/rest-of-world/ and one under /world/uk/. The order was not strictly chronological. A pull on 2026-10-27 listed 55 sections; top-stories returned 46 bylined stories, while city feeds like kanpur had few bylines and summaries.
- Step 1
Pick a city desk or a topic desk
/timesofindia/sections lists 31 city slugs (mumbai, delhi, bangalore, hyderabad and more) beside top-stories, india, world and nri. City desks and the national feed overlap, so deduplicate on URL.
- Step 2
Do not trust the slug for geography
nri returned US-centered stories on H-1B visas, immigration cases and Redditor accounts, with URL paths under /world/us/. Classify the topic from the article.
- Step 3
Sort by published_at yourself
An item dated 2026-10-12 appeared between 10-16 and 10-15 entries, so sort the response before taking the newest.
- Step 4
Sort by date, then open the article
Pass a canonical public URL to /timesofindia/article and use /timesofindia/author for the named contributor when available. Only four items had a summary field.
- Step 5
Compare lead and city feeds
top-stories covered about eleven hours (2026-10-26 16:44 UTC to 2026-10-27 03:42) with bylines on all 46 and summaries on 19. kanpur returned 20 stories with bylines on 9 and summaries on 3.
- Step 6
Expect the news route to match top-stories
The news route returned the same 46 rows, so use city slugs for local coverage.
Agent skills
Use Times of India data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Times of India data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Times of India:
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FAQ
Scraping Times of India: common questions
How many Times of India slugs are city desks?
31 of 54 on 2026-10-25.
Why are nri stories under /world/us/?
The feed is topic-defined. On 2026-10-25, 16 of its 20 items had /world/us/ URLs. Use the URL path for geography.
Is the Times of India feed sorted by date?
Not strictly. One 10-12 item sat among 10-15 and 10-16 entries.
Do Times of India city feeds include summaries?
Rarely. Only 3 of 20 kanpur stories had one on 2026-10-27.