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Try the ProPublica topic headlines API

Returns the latest ProPublica stories for one topic. `section` is required and takes one of 33 topic slugs, such as `politics`, `health-care`, `immigration`, `courts`, `environment` or `trump-administration`. Each item has its title, URL, publication time and author.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 6 items; 4 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /propublica/headlines?section=politics
Fields with a value in every checked item: title, url, published_at, author

Sample value profiles: published_at: 2026-07-31 to 2026-09-22; url: propublica.org; title: median 89 characters.

Request: GET /propublica/headlines
Cost: 1 credit/request
Auth: apiKey

ProPublica topic headlines API documentation ProPublica platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/propublica/headlines?section=abortion' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
section	string	Yes	abortion	ProPublica topic slug

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "section": "politics",
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.propublica.org/article/example-investigation",
        "author": "Jane Reporter",
        "published_at": "2026-09-22T09:00:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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Get ProPublica article content Get a ProPublica staff profile Get ProPublica top stories Get ProPublica topics

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GET /propublica/headlines

Get ProPublica topic headlines

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Required query parameters

section

requiredstring

ProPublica topic slug · allowed: abortion, biden-administration, civil-rights, courts, criminal-justice, debt, democracy, department-of-governmental-efficiency, education, environment, health-care, health-insurance, immigration, jan-6, labor, mental-health, military, nonprofits, police, politics, pollution, pregnancy, prison, racial-justice, real-estate, regulation, sex-and-gender, sports, stock, taxes, technology, trump-administration, usaid

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "section": "politics",
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.propublica.org/article/example-investigation",
        "author": "Jane Reporter",
        "published_at": "2026-09-22T09:00:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint Playground

Try the ProPublica topic headlines API

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 6 items; 4 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /propublica/headlines?section=politics
Fields with a value in every checked item: title, url, published_at, author

Sample value profiles: published_at: 2026-07-31 to 2026-09-22; url: propublica.org; title: median 89 characters.

Request: GET /propublica/headlines
Cost: 1 credit/request
Auth: apiKey

ProPublica topic headlines API documentation ProPublica platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/propublica/headlines?section=abortion' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
section	string	Yes	abortion	ProPublica topic slug

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "section": "politics",
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.propublica.org/article/example-investigation",
        "author": "Jane Reporter",
        "published_at": "2026-09-22T09:00:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

More ProPublica endpoints

Get ProPublica article content Get a ProPublica staff profile Get ProPublica top stories Get ProPublica topics

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

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Method

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Endpoint

GETapiKey1 credit/requestpublicnews.headlinesResponseDocProPublica

GET /propublica/headlines

Get ProPublica topic headlines

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

Set up API key

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API key

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

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Active Playground key: not configured

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Required query parameters

section

requiredstring

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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": {
    "section": "politics",
    "items": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.propublica.org/article/example-investigation",
        "author": "Jane Reporter",
        "published_at": "2026-09-22T09:00:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}