Chicago civic-news research
Use Chicago Tribune endpoints to turn chicago civic-news research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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媒体与流媒体5 active endpointsapiKey
Chicago Tribune scraping API
Follow Chicago civic reporting, local public safety, politics, immigration, investigations, education, environment, and history.
Collect Chicago Tribune headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Covers Chicago civic news.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Chicago Tribune coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "Chicago Tribune",
"endpoint": "chicagotribune-headlines",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/chicagotribune/headlines",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
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Managed execution
How Crawlora handles this platform
Every figure below is read from the live Chicago Tribune endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
5 documented Chicago Tribune endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
9 request parameters are documented across those Chicago Tribune endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 Chicago Tribune 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
Chicago Tribune endpoints document their error responses (400, 404 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 Chicago Tribune 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
/chicagotribune/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/chicagotribune/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/chicagotribune/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/chicagotribune/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/chicagotribune/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Chicago Tribune API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/chicagotribune/headlinesGet Chicago Tribune section headlines
Returns headlines from one Chicago Tribune section page. `section` is required and takes one of 60 slugs, such as `local-news`, `crime-public-safety`, `chicago-bears`, `restaurants-food-drink` or `naperville-sun`. Each story has a title, article URL, publication time, byline, excerpt and image where the card shows them. Most sections give about 10 stories.
MCP tool chicagotribune_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/chicagotribune/newsGet Chicago Tribune top stories
Returns the current Chicago Tribune top stories from its homepage, with no input needed. Each has a title and canonical article URL, plus publication time, byline, excerpt and lead image where the story card shows them.
MCP tool chicagotribune_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/chicagotribune/sectionsGet Chicago Tribune sections
Lists the 60 Chicago Tribune sections accepted by `chicagotribune-headlines`, spanning news, suburban papers, opinion, sports teams and arts, such as `crime-public-safety`, `daily-southtown`, `chicago-cubs` and `theater`. Each has a `slug`, display `name` and page `url`. Tag pages and hubs that repeat the homepage are not included.
MCP tool chicagotribune_sections
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/chicagotribune/articleGet Chicago Tribune article content
Returns public Chicago Tribune article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. For subscriber-only articles the response carries the free lead-in with paywalled set to true.
MCP tool chicagotribune_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/chicagotribune/authorGet a Chicago Tribune author profile
Returns one Chicago Tribune author's public profile: name, job title when listed, bio, public email and X/Twitter handle, and their recent articles.
MCP tool chicagotribune_author
slug:queryurl:queryx-api-key:header
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How to scrape Chicago Tribune
Extract Chicago Tribune data in 6 steps
The Tribune's public local-news taxonomy makes Chicago-specific research more precise than a single generic city feed. Local News, Crime and Public Safety, Investigations, Immigration, Education, Environment, History, and Marijuana are separate public sections. Select the civic beat that matches the question before collecting full articles; a long-running investigation should not be counted as an ordinary breaking incident. Keep the Chicago-area location, headline, publication date, and canonical URL on each record. When a story crosses beats, retain its source section so the original editorial placement remains visible to later reviewers. A live pull on 2026-10-27 returned 60 section slugs, a news feed of 10 stories covering about four hours, and an 81-story cross-section news feed.
- Step 1
Separate the Chicago beat from the suburban papers
The sections route lists 60 slugs. Besides local-news, crime-public-safety and investigations, it includes suburban titles (naperville-sun, daily-southtown, aurora-beacon-news, elgin-courier-news, lake-county-news-sun, post-tribune), so a metro count does not mix suburbs unless you ask.
- Step 2
Follow a team or a column by its slug
Sports slugs name the franchise (chicago-cubs, chicago-white-sox, chicago-bears, chicago-bulls, chicago-blackhawks, chicago-sky) and opinion splits into columnists, commentary, editorials and letters-to-the-editor. Keep the slug with each story.
- Step 3
Size a section pull at about ten stories
Most sections return about 10 stories, each with title, article URL, publication time, byline, excerpt and image where the card shows them. The news route gives the homepage top stories.
- Step 4
Handle subscriber-only articles and author profiles
For subscriber-only articles the article response carries the free lead-in with paywalled set to true. The author route returns name, job title when listed, bio, public email and X handle, plus recent articles.
- Step 5
Expect hours on news and days on editorials
On 2026-10-27 the news section's 10 stories ran from 2026-10-26 21:50 UTC to 2026-10-27 01:46, about four hours, while the editorials section's 10 reached back from 2026-10-26 to 2026-10-20. Poll fast sections often and slow ones daily, then deduplicate by canonical URL.
- Step 6
Do not expect bylines from the cross-section feed
The section feeds returned a byline and excerpt on all 10 stories, but the 81 stories on the news route carried no author at all and only 16 had excerpts. Join the news route to a section pull or an article call when attribution matters.
Agent Skills
在你的编程智能体中使用 Chicago Tribune 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 Chicago Tribune 数据，无需编写爬虫。以下 skill 覆盖 Chicago Tribune：
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 Chicago Tribune: common questions
How many stories does a Chicago Tribune section return?
About ten for most sections. Poll often and deduplicate by canonical URL instead of expecting a deep archive.
What does a subscriber-only Tribune article return?
The free lead-in with paywalled set to true. Keep the flag so a short body is not read as a full story.
Which Tribune slugs cover the suburbs?
naperville-sun, daily-southtown, aurora-beacon-news, elgin-courier-news, lake-county-news-sun and post-tribune are separate section slugs alongside the Chicago desks.
Why does the Tribune news route return no authors?
Its 81 stories on 2026-10-27 had no author field, and only 16 had an excerpt, while section pulls showed bylines on every story. Use a section slug or the article route when you need credit lines.