Consumer technology purchase research
Use Tom's Guide endpoints to turn consumer technology purchase research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Tom's Guide is Future's consumer-tech buying-guide publication. Follow phones, computing, home, fitness, streaming, reviews, and deals through structured public feeds and article records for consumer technology purchase research.
Extract technology buying advice, deals, home technology, fitness, streaming, and mobile coverage from Tom's Guide with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Tom's Guide",
"endpoint": "tomsguide-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/tomsguide/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract technology buying advice, deals, home technology, fitness, streaming, and mobile coverage from Tom's Guide with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Use Tom's Guide endpoints to turn consumer technology purchase research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Tom's Guide endpoints to turn tom's guide section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Tom's Guide endpoints to turn article and byline research for consumer-tech and commerce-content teams into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Tom's Guide endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 10 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Tom's Guide endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
10 request parameters are documented across those Tom's Guide endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Tom's Guide endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Tom's Guide 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.
5 hosted MCP tools back the Tom's Guide endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/tomsguide/article
/tomsguide/author
/tomsguide/headlines
/tomsguide/news
/tomsguide/sections
Endpoint catalog
/tomsguide/articleReturns one Tom's Guide article by `url`, a canonical HTTPS `tomsguide.com` link such as `tomsguide.com/<section>/<slug>`. The response has the title, description, section, authors, publication and update times, image URL, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag. On some product reviews `authors` may be empty.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 8 of 8 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-04; section: “Over-Ear Headphones”.
MCP tool tomsguide_article
/tomsguide/authorReturns a Tom's Guide author's name, job title, biography, social links and one page of recent articles. Give exactly one of `slug` or `url`; `page` is 1-based, defaults to 1 and overrides any page in `url`. The response also has `page` and `has_next_page`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 25 items, 3 fields filled in every item. url: tomsguide.com; title: median 97 characters.
MCP tool tomsguide_author
/tomsguide/headlinesReturns the current headlines for one Tom's Guide section. `section` is required and takes one of 22 slugs, such as `ai`, `audio`, `deals`, `how-to`, `news`, `reviews`, `tvs` or `phones`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-13; url: tomsguide.com.
MCP tool tomsguide_headlines
/tomsguide/newsReturns the current top stories from Tom's Guide. It takes no parameters. Each item has its title, URL and, where available, a summary, author, publication time, image URL and `type`. Use the headlines endpoint to read one section.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 50 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: tomsguide.com.
MCP tool tomsguide_news
/tomsguide/sectionsLists the 22 top-level Tom's Guide content verticals that the headlines endpoint accepts, such as `ai`, `best-picks`, `how-to`, `mattresses`, `reviews`, `vehicle-tech` and `phones`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and a `url`.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 22 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “AI” and 21 other values; url: tomsguide.com.
MCP tool tomsguide_sections
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How to scrape Tom's Guide
Tom's Guide is Future's consumer-technology buying-guide publication, covering phones, computing, home devices, fitness, streaming, deals, and reviews. A recommendation article is different from a product announcement or a temporary discount. For purchase research, keep device model, editorial format, market, and publication date together; otherwise an old deal or a broad buying guide can be mistaken for a current tested verdict. On 2026-10-25 the documented list held 22 slugs. The mattresses feed returned more than 40 items from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-24 in no date order: the first five were undated evergreen guides, the rest mixed reviews, Prime Day and Black Friday deals and mattress-care how-tos, under /mattresses/, /best-picks/, /reviews/ and /deals/. A pull on 2026-10-27 listed 22 sections; the mattresses feed returned 45 stories back to May 2026 without summaries.
The first five mattresses items had no author or published_at, such as the best-mattress roundup. Treat them as pinned guides and key them by URL.
/best-picks/, /reviews/, /deals/ and /mattresses/mattress-care/ distinguish roundups, tested reviews, offers and how-tos. Store the folder with the record.
A Black Friday mattress guide dated 2026-10-23 and a Saatva sale tracker from 10-21 were live. Save collection time with any price.
Pass a canonical public URL to /tomsguide/article and use /tomsguide/author for the named contributor when available. Some bylines carry a credential suffix such as (CSSC).
ai returned 10 stories from 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-26, mattresses 45 from 2026-05-01 with no summaries, and the news route 50 from 2026-10-25 11:00 UTC onward with every field.
Slugs include audio, best-picks, cameras-photography, computing and deals. Evergreen guide feeds update slowly.
Agent skills
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Tom's Guide data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Tom's Guide:
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-researchFAQ
The first five mattresses items on 2026-10-25 had neither author nor published_at; they are evergreen pages.
No. Dates ran from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-24 in mixed order.
It is a credential suffix on the contributor name. Strip it when matching authors.
10 to 50 on 2026-10-27, depending on the slug.