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Try the MakeUseOf News API

Returns MakeUseOf's current top stories, with no parameters. Each item has its title, canonical article URL, short summary, publication time, and author and image when available.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 10 items; 6 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /makeuseof/news
Fields with a value in every checked item: title, url, summary, published_at, author, image_url

Sample value profiles: published_at: 2026-10-13; url: makeuseof.com; title: median 67 characters.

Request: GET /makeuseof/news
Cost: 1 credit/request
Auth: apiKey
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%, median 4.28 s
Monitored request: GET /makeuseof/news

MakeUseOf News API documentation MakeUseOf platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/makeuseof/news' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

No request parameters

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Example story title",
        "url": "https://makeuseof.com/example-story-title/",
        "summary": "A short feed summary."
      }
    ]
  }
}

More MakeUseOf endpoints

Get MakeUseOf article content Get a MakeUseOf author profile Get MakeUseOf section headlines Get MakeUseOf RSS sections

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GETapiKey1 credit/requestpublicnews.newsResponseDocMakeUseOf

GET /makeuseof/news

Get MakeUseOf top stories

Returns MakeUseOf's current top stories, with no parameters. Each item has its title, canonical article URL, short summary, publication time, and author and image when available.

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Example story title",
        "url": "https://makeuseof.com/example-story-title/",
        "summary": "A short feed summary."
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint Playground

Try the MakeUseOf News API

Returns MakeUseOf's current top stories, with no parameters. Each item has its title, canonical article URL, short summary, publication time, and author and image when available.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 10 items; 6 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /makeuseof/news
Fields with a value in every checked item: title, url, summary, published_at, author, image_url

Sample value profiles: published_at: 2026-10-13; url: makeuseof.com; title: median 67 characters.

Request: GET /makeuseof/news
Cost: 1 credit/request
Auth: apiKey
Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026: 100%, median 4.28 s
Monitored request: GET /makeuseof/news

MakeUseOf News API documentation MakeUseOf platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/makeuseof/news' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

No request parameters

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Example story title",
        "url": "https://makeuseof.com/example-story-title/",
        "summary": "A short feed summary."
      }
    ]
  }
}

More MakeUseOf endpoints

Get MakeUseOf article content Get a MakeUseOf author profile Get MakeUseOf section headlines Get MakeUseOf RSS sections

The sample response, schema and code snippets below work without an account. Sending a live request needs an API key.

Set up API key Endpoint docs

Endpoint

Choose one catalog endpoint for this request.

1 shown

Group

Method

Auth

Endpoint

GETapiKey1 credit/requestpublicnews.newsResponseDocMakeUseOf

GET /makeuseof/news

Get MakeUseOf top stories

Returns MakeUseOf's current top stories, with no parameters. Each item has its title, canonical article URL, short summary, publication time, and author and image when available.

API key required. Paste a full key or rotate one from the API Keys page.

Set up API key

View docs

API key

API key required for live requests. Your key is only used to send requests from this Playground.

not configured

Active Playground key: not configured

Manage API keys in Console

Add an API key to send a live request.

If an active API key is configured, Copy cURL includes it. Share links never include API keys.

View docs

Sample responseGET

Shown before your first request. Add an API key and send a request to see the live response, status, latency, and headers.

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Example story title",
        "url": "https://makeuseof.com/example-story-title/",
        "summary": "A short feed summary."
      }
    ]
  }
}