West Midlands local-news monitoring
Use Birmingham Mail endpoints to turn west midlands local-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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媒体与流媒体5 active endpointsapiKey
Birmingham Mail scraping API
Monitor Birmingham, the West Midlands, the Black Country, and local public-safety and cost-of-living coverage.
Collect Birmingham Mail headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Covers West Midlands news.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Birmingham Mail coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "Birmingham Mail",
"endpoint": "birminghammail-headlines",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/birminghammail/headlines",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit Birmingham Mail
Collect Birmingham Mail headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Covers West Midlands news.
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Managed execution
How Crawlora handles this platform
Every figure below is read from the live Birmingham Mail 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 Birmingham Mail endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
10 request parameters are documented across those Birmingham Mail endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 Birmingham Mail 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
Birmingham Mail 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 Birmingham Mail 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
/birminghammail/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/birminghammail/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/birminghammail/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/birminghammail/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/birminghammail/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Birmingham Mail API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/birminghammail/headlinesGet Birmingham Mail section headlines
Returns fresh headlines from one public Birmingham Mail section. Photo galleries are omitted because they have no readable article body.
MCP tool birminghammail_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/birminghammail/newsGet Birmingham Mail top stories
Returns fresh Birmingham Mail top stories from the public home RSS feed. Photo galleries are omitted because they have no readable article body.
MCP tool birminghammail_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/birminghammail/sectionsGet Birmingham Mail sections
Lists the 23 Birmingham Mail sections that `birminghammail-headlines` accepts, such as `news/midlands-news`, `black-country`, `sport/football/transfer-news` and `whats-on`. Each has a `slug`, a display `name` and the feed `url`. Only sections with a recently updated feed are included (last verified 2026-09-25), and each returns up to about 25 entries.
MCP tool birminghammail_sections
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/birminghammail/articleGet Birmingham Mail article content
Returns public Birmingham Mail article metadata (including the section) and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Photo-gallery URLs are rejected.
MCP tool birminghammail_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/birminghammail/authorGet a Birmingham Mail author profile
Returns one Birmingham Mail author's public profile: name, job title, bio, email, X/Twitter handle, and one page of their recent articles.
MCP tool birminghammail_author
slug:queryurl:querypage:query+1 more
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How to scrape Birmingham Mail
Extract Birmingham Mail data in 8 steps
Use Birmingham Mail's local sections to preserve the distinction between city, Black Country, Midlands, UK, and service journalism. Midlands News, Black Country, cost of living, money, health, and motoring appear as distinct public sections. Choose a locality or service beat before pulling full articles: a Black Country public-safety report should not be silently labeled as Birmingham city news. The 2026-09-26 feed led with a Midlands prisoner-arrest story, showing why the source geography matters. Keep its section, timestamp, headline, and article URL so a later police update can be linked to the original report. A pull on 2026-10-27 listed 23 nested slugs, and the news feed returned 25 stories across eight hours with full fields. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 23-slug section list and the cross-section feed.
- Step 1
Start from news and 22 more slugs
The sections route lists 23 slugs such as news/midlands-news, black-country, sport/football/transfer-news and whats-on.
- Step 2
Know galleries are skipped
Headline and top-story feeds omit photo galleries because they have no readable article body, and the article route rejects photo-gallery URLs.
- Step 3
Take the section from the article, not the slug
Article calls return public metadata including the section plus body paragraphs; a 2026-10-30 sample had 22 paragraphs (about 3,800 characters) with description and updated_at. Section slugs are nested (news/midlands-news, news/uk-news, black-country, motoring/motoring-news) and 19 of the 25 news headlines were also in the strip.
- Step 4
Fetch one author profile per writer
The author route returns name, job title, bio, email, X handle and one page of recent articles. The cross-section strip carried a byline on 24 of 25 stories, so profiles can be fetched for almost every row.
- Step 5
Pick the Midlands layers
Slugs include news, news/midlands-news, news/uk-news, news/world-news, news/showbiz-tv and news/cost-of-living. A Birmingham story can appear in several of them, so deduplicate by URL.
- Step 6
Compare news with sport
news ran from 2026-10-26 13:01 UTC to 21:03 and sport from 2026-10-23 08:00 to 2026-10-26 23:19, with bylines on 25 and 24 of 25 respectively.
- Step 7
Map 23 slugs from news to special-features
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 23 slugs, among them news, news/midlands-news, news/uk-news, news/world-news, news/showbiz-tv, news/cost-of-living, news/money, news/health. Treat each slug as its own feed: send it verbatim and remember that the same story may be listed under several.
- Step 8
The strip window is hours, not days
The cross-section news route returned 25 stories from 2026-10-29 14:19 to 20:16 UTC, about six hours, with bylines on 24 and summaries and images on all 25; news/midlands-news reached back to 2026-10-29 10:25.
Agent Skills
在你的编程智能体中使用 Birmingham Mail 数据
安装 Crawlora agent skill，你的智能体即可通过文档化的 API 以 JSON 形式获取 Birmingham Mail 数据，无需编写爬虫。以下 skill 覆盖 Birmingham Mail：
News media research
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-research
FAQ
Scraping Birmingham Mail: common questions
How many Birmingham Mail sections are there?
23, including news/midlands-news, black-country and whats-on.
Why are Birmingham Mail galleries missing?
They have no readable article body, so feeds omit them and the article route rejects their URLs.
What does the Birmingham Mail author route return?
Name, job title, bio, email, X handle and one page of recent articles.
Why do Birmingham Mail slugs contain slashes?
Many are nested paths, such as news/midlands-news. Pass them exactly as listed.