Android ecosystem research
Use XDA endpoints to turn android ecosystem research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
XDA is an Android and consumer-technology publication. Follow Android, mobile, computing, apps, deals, how-to, and developer-oriented feeds through structured public feeds and article records for Android ecosystem research.
Extract Android modding, phones, apps, wearables, device guides, and technical how-tos from XDA with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "XDA",
"endpoint": "xda-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/xda/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Android modding, phones, apps, wearables, device guides, and technical how-tos from XDA with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Use XDA endpoints to turn android ecosystem research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use XDA endpoints to turn xda section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use XDA endpoints to turn article and byline research for mobile developers, device teams, and technical buyers into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live XDA endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented XDA endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those XDA endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 XDA endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
XDA 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 XDA endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/xda/article
/xda/author
/xda/headlines
/xda/news
/xda/sections
Endpoint catalog
/xda/articleReturns one XDA article by its `url`, which must be a `www.xda-developers.com/<slug>/` link; section hubs, author pages and the bare `xda-developers.com` host are rejected. The response has the title, description, times, section, authors, lead image and body `paragraphs`. `paywalled` is set to `true` only if the page declares the article not free.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 of 9 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Gaming Handhelds”.
MCP tool xda_article
/xda/authorReturns an XDA author profile from their `https://www.xda-developers.com/author/<slug>/` `url` (required; paginated author URLs are rejected). The response has the name, title, biography, image, social links and the profile's latest articles, about 20, with no older pages.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 4 fields filled in every item. url: xda-developers.com; title: median 90 characters.
MCP tool xda_author
/xda/headlinesLists 10 recent XDA items for one section. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `news`, `reviews`, `buying-guides`, `gpu`, `laptops`, `windows`, `linux-hub` or `ai-tools`; `xda-sections` lists them all. Dormant sections such as `editorials` or `beats` return old items. Other values are rejected.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13; url: xda-developers.com.
MCP tool xda_headlines
/xda/newsReturns about 10 of the latest XDA top stories with no parameters. Each item has its title, canonical URL, summary, publication time, author names (co-authors joined with a comma) and lead image.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items, 6 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: xda-developers.com.
MCP tool xda_news
/xda/sectionsLists the XDA sections accepted by `xda-headlines`, including `news`, `reviews`, `buying-guides`, `gpu`, `laptops`, `gaming-handhelds`, `windows`, `linux-hub` and `ai-tools`. Each has a `slug`, a display `name` and a feed `url`. Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 62 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “News” and 61 other values; url: xda-developers.com.
MCP tool xda_sections
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How to scrape XDA
XDA covers Android devices, apps, computing, deals, and technical how-tos with a particular history in modding and developer communities. A firmware guide, device review, and new-app announcement should enter separate research streams. Technical instructions can depend on hardware variant and software version, so keep those details with the article rather than presenting an old procedure as universally applicable. On 2026-10-25 the documented list held more than 55 slugs mixing hardware (gpu, esp32, home-lab), software (claude, notebooklm, windows-tutorials) and formats (reviews, tutorials, buying-guides). The claude feed returned 10 items from 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-25, mostly first-person hands-on pieces such as debloating a Smart TV with Claude Code or replacing paid subscriptions with local models, not news reports. A pull on 2026-10-27 listed 62 sections; home-internet's newest story was five months old.
/xda/sections has product-topic slugs (claude, notebooklm, home-lab, self-hosting) and format ones (news, reviews, tutorials, buying-guides). A product slug mixes formats.
The claude feed read I tested, I ran and I rebuilt, so classify these as hands-on experience, separate from product announcements.
A firmware guide, device review and new-app announcement should enter separate streams. Technical instructions can depend on hardware variant and software version, so keep those details with the article.
Pass a canonical public URL to /xda/article and use /xda/author for the named contributor when available. Store the summary line, which often states the thesis.
home-internet returned 10 stories from 2025-03-13 to 2026-05-23, while news returned 10 across about 20 hours (2026-10-26 08:02 UTC to 2026-10-27 03:58).
Slugs include news, features, reviews, buying-guides, tutorials and editorials, each with byline, summary and image.
Agent skills
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull XDA data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover XDA:
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
Mostly not. On 2026-10-25 most of its 10 items were first-person experiments and workflow write-ups.
More than 55, spanning hardware, software, operating systems, gaming and formats like tutorials and deals.
Store the publication date and the hardware or software version from the article body.
Yes. home-internet's newest story was dated 2026-05-23 on 2026-10-27.