Wales regional monitoring
Use WalesOnline endpoints to turn wales regional monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
WalesOnline Scraper API
WalesOnline is Reach plc's Welsh news site. Follow Wales, Cardiff, local communities, politics, rugby, traffic, and sport through structured public feeds and article records for Wales regional monitoring.
Extract Wales local news, Cardiff, Welsh politics, sport, traffic, and community reporting from WalesOnline with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
WalesOnline coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "WalesOnline",
"endpoint": "walesonline-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/walesonline/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit WalesOnline
Extract Wales local news, Cardiff, Welsh politics, sport, traffic, and community reporting from WalesOnline with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
WalesOnline section and headline tracking
Use WalesOnline endpoints to turn walesonline section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Article and byline research for Welsh local, public-sector, and community researchers
Use WalesOnline endpoints to turn article and byline research for welsh local, public-sector, and community 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 WalesOnline endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 10 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
5 documented WalesOnline endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
10 request parameters are documented across those WalesOnline endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 WalesOnline 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
WalesOnline 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 WalesOnline 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
/walesonline/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/walesonline/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/walesonline/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/walesonline/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/walesonline/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
WalesOnline API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/walesonline/articleGet WalesOnline article content
Returns public WalesOnline article metadata (including the section) and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL, including live blogs. Photo-gallery URLs are rejected.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Latest Wales News”.
MCP tool walesonline_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/walesonline/authorGet a WalesOnline author profile
Returns one WalesOnline author's public profile (name, plus job title, bio, email and X/Twitter handle when the author lists them) and one page of their recent articles.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 24 items, 4 fields filled in every item. url: walesonline.co.uk; title: median 77 characters.
MCP tool walesonline_author
slug:queryurl:querypage:query+1 more
GETapiKeyexample
/walesonline/headlinesGet WalesOnline section headlines
Lists recent WalesOnline headlines for one section, up to about 25 items. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `news/wales-news`, `news/politics`, `sport/rugby`, `sport/football` or `whats-on`; `walesonline-sections` lists all 37. Photo galleries are omitted, and an invalid value returns a 400 error.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 25 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: walesonline.co.uk.
MCP tool walesonline_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/walesonline/newsGet WalesOnline top stories
Returns fresh WalesOnline top stories from the public home RSS feed. Photo galleries are omitted because they have no readable article body.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 25 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: walesonline.co.uk.
MCP tool walesonline_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/walesonline/sectionsGet WalesOnline sections
Lists the 37 WalesOnline sections accepted by `walesonline-headlines`, with nested slugs such as `news/wales-news`, `sport/rugby` and `whats-on/food-drink-news`. Each has a `slug`, a display `name` and a feed `url`. Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 37 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “News” and 36 other values; url: walesonline.co.uk.
MCP tool walesonline_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape WalesOnline
Extract WalesOnline data in 6 steps
WalesOnline is Reach plc's Welsh news site, covering Cardiff and communities across Wales alongside politics, rugby, traffic, and sport. The regional detail is useful for public-sector and local-market work, but a national Welsh decision and a Cardiff road closure are different units of analysis. Keep locality, responsible authority, and section attached to each article before making a Wales-wide summary. On 2026-10-25 the documented list held more than 35 slugs, with path-style names such as sport/rugby/rugby-news. That feed returned 24 items from 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-25, mixing Welsh regional club ratings, URC derbies, Wales Women internationals and Rugby League World Cup viewing guides; one syndicated item carried a Birmingham Mail image URL and a two-name byline. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 37-slug section list and the cross-section feed.
- Step 1
Choose the narrowest path-style slug
/walesonline/sections includes sport/rugby, sport/rugby/rugby-news, sport/football/transfer-news and news/wales-news. A narrow rugby-news slug still mixed union and league.
- Step 2
Separate match reports, ratings and guides
The sample held reports (Ospreys 31-14 Dragons), player ratings, injury updates and how-to-watch pages. Label the format before counting volume.
- Step 3
Handle shared Reach content
One rugby item carried an image from birminghammail.co.uk and a byline of two names. Keep the canonical URL and treat the author field as possibly multi-name.
- Step 4
Parse a 10-paragraph body
Pass a canonical public URL to /walesonline/article and use /walesonline/author for the named contributor when available. Keep the locality, club or competition, because a Cardiff club match and a Wales Women international are different units of analysis.
- Step 5
Pick from 37 feeds, news first
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 37 slugs, among them news, news/wales-news, news/uk-news, news/world-news, news/politics, news/local-news, news/education, news/health. Use the listed value unchanged and record which slug produced a story; overlapping slugs mean the same article can recur.
- Step 6
Compare section and strip freshness
WalesOnline lists 37 slugs, many nested (news/wales-news, news/uk-news, news/politics, news/cost-of-living, motoring/motoring-news). On 2026-10-30 news returned 25 headlines from 2026-10-29 13:34 to 2026-10-30 03:50 UTC and news/wales-news 25 from 2026-10-29 11:37 to 22:19 UTC, with 11 and 7 also in the 25-story cross-section strip, which ran 2026-10-29 18:05 to 2026-10-30 05:00 UTC with bylines on every story.
Agent skills
Use WalesOnline data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull WalesOnline data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover WalesOnline:
News media research
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FAQ
Scraping WalesOnline: common questions
Does rugby-news only cover Welsh rugby?
No. On 2026-10-25 it also returned a Leinster v Munster item, a Leicester v Northampton story and an All Blacks health story.
Can the author field hold more than one name?
Yes. One item listed two authors in a single string; split on the comma when matching.
How active is the rugby-news slug?
24 items in about two days, so a daily pull will be truncated. Page by published_at.