Technology purchase research
Use PCMag endpoints to turn technology purchase research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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媒体与流媒体5 active endpointsapiKey
PCMag Scraper API
Organize PCMag’s product reviews and technology reporting by its own product and topic taxonomy.
Extract tested consumer technology, software, security and buying advice from PCMag as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
PCMag coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "PCMag",
"endpoint": "pcmag-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/pcmag/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit PCMag
Extract tested consumer technology, software, security and buying advice from PCMag as structured JSON.
Security coverage monitoring
Use PCMag endpoints to turn security coverage monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Product-review comparison
Use PCMag endpoints to turn product-review comparison into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
How Crawlora handles this platform
Every figure below is read from the live PCMag 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 PCMag endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
9 request parameters are documented across those PCMag endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 PCMag 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
PCMag 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 PCMag 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
/pcmag/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/pcmag/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/pcmag/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/pcmag/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/pcmag/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
PCMag API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/pcmag/articleGet PCMag article or review content
Returns a PCMag article or product review by canonical `pcmag.com` `url`, such as `/news/<slug>` or `/reviews/<slug>`. The response has title, description, publication time, section label, authors, lead image and body `paragraphs`. Hub pages, author pages and pages without a readable body return an upstream error.
MCP tool pcmag_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/pcmag/authorGet a PCMag author profile
Returns a PCMag author profile by `slug` (for example `michael-kan`) or a pcmag.com authors `url`; supply exactly one. The response has `name`, `role`, `biography`, `image_url`, `expertise` topics linked to category hubs, `social_links` (X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads) as full URLs, and recent articles.
MCP tool pcmag_author
slug:queryurl:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/pcmag/headlinesGet PCMag section headlines
Returns recent PCMag headlines for one product or topic category. `section` is required and takes a category slug such as `ai`, `antivirus`, `cameras`, `crm-software` or `gaming-systems`; `pcmag-sections` lists them. Each item has a title and URL, and may include summary, author, publication time and image.
MCP tool pcmag_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/pcmag/newsGet PCMag top stories
Returns the current PCMag top stories, with no parameters. Each item has a title, canonical URL, summary, publication time and author name when available. Use `pcmag-headlines` to read one product or topic category.
MCP tool pcmag_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/pcmag/sectionsGet PCMag sections
Lists the PCMag product and topic category slugs accepted by `pcmag-headlines`, such as `3d-printers`, `ai`, `antivirus`, `crm-software` and `drones`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and the category hub `url`.
MCP tool pcmag_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape PCMag
Extract PCMag data in 6 steps
PCMag is Ziff Davis’s technology publication, known for reviews and buying advice alongside news about software, security and consumer devices. A review is an editorial evaluation, not a product catalog listing; keep that distinction when joining PCMag data to retailer prices or specifications. The section inventory reflects product and topic categories, making it more useful than a single broad technology feed when the question concerns a device class. The 2026-10-27 sections route listed 232 product-category slugs, and the news route used RFC-2822 dates with a two-digit year, unlike the ISO dates in section feeds.
- Step 1
Choose a product or topic category
The sections route lists category slugs such as 3d-printers, ai, antivirus, cameras, crm-software, drones and gaming-systems, each with a category hub URL.
- Step 2
Pass news or review URLs
Article calls take a canonical pcmag.com URL such as /news/<slug> or /reviews/<slug> and return title, description, publication time, section label, authors, lead image and body paragraphs. Hub and author pages are rejected.
- Step 3
Look up an author like michael-kan
The author route takes a slug (for example michael-kan) or a pcmag.com authors URL, exactly one.
- Step 4
Use expertise topics
The profile returns name, role, biography, image, expertise topics linked to category hubs and social links.
- Step 5
Parse the news route's date format
The 99 news rows used stamps like Mon, 26 Oct 26 22:03:07 +0000 (41 on Monday 26 October, 29 on Friday 23 October, among four days), not ISO-8601. Section rows used ISO stamps, some at midnight.
- Step 6
Pick a product slug rather than a section
Slugs name product categories such as 3d-printers, accounting, ai, air-purifiers, android, antivirus and anti-ransomware-for-business. 3d-printers returned 5 stories from 2026-02-02 to 2026-09-14, so reviews slugs are slow feeds.
Agent Skills
在你的编程智能体中使用 PCMag 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 PCMag 数据，无需编写爬虫。以下 skill 覆盖 PCMag：
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 PCMag: common questions
Are PCMag sections products or newsroom desks?
Product and topic categories such as antivirus, drones and crm-software.
Can I read a PCMag review with the article route?
Yes. /reviews/<slug> URLs work like /news/<slug> URLs.
What is in a PCMag author profile?
Name, role, biography, image, expertise topics linked to category hubs and social links.
Why can't I sort PCMag news rows as ISO dates?
Because on 2026-10-27 the news route returned RFC-2822 strings with a two-digit year. Convert them before sorting.