Box office and deal tracking
Use Variety endpoints to turn box office and deal tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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媒体与流媒体5 active endpointsapiKey
Variety API
Turn Variety into structured JSON — full article bodies, author pages with a paginated history of every writer's bylines, headlines from any of its 24 trade sections, and a live top-stories feed, all from canonical variety.com URLs.
Get Variety's entertainment-industry articles, author profiles with paginated bylines, section headlines, and its trade-news feed as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Variety coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "Variety",
"endpoint": "variety-article",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/variety/article",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit Variety
Get Variety's entertainment-industry articles, author profiles with paginated bylines, section headlines, and its trade-news feed as structured JSON.
Awards-season coverage
Use Variety endpoints to turn awards-season coverage into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Trade-press monitoring
Use Variety endpoints to turn trade-press monitoring 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 Variety 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 Variety endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
10 request parameters are documented across those Variety endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 Variety 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
Variety 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 Variety 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
/variety/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/variety/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/variety/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/variety/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/variety/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Variety API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/variety/articleGet Variety article content
Returns one Variety article by its canonical `variety.com` `url`, in the form `/<year>/<vertical>/<subcategory>/<slug>-<id>/`. The response has the title, description, authors, section, published and updated times, lead image, body `paragraphs` and a `paywalled` flag.
MCP tool variety_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/variety/authorGet a Variety author profile
Returns a Variety author profile with name, biography, photo, social links and one page of recent articles. Give either `slug` (such as `ellise-shafer`) or an author `url`, which may include a `/page/<n>/` segment; `page` (default 1) overrides it. `has_next_page` shows whether another page exists.
MCP tool variety_author
slug:queryurl:querypage:query+1 more
GETapiKeyexample
/variety/headlinesGet Variety section headlines
Lists fresh Variety headlines for one vertical. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `film`, `music`, `tv`, `biz`, `awards`, `gaming`, `global`, `legit` or `vip`; `variety-sections` lists all 24. Each item has its title and URL, plus summary, author, publication time and image when the outlet provides them.
MCP tool variety_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/variety/newsGet Variety top stories
Returns the latest Variety top stories with no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image. Item URLs can be passed to `variety-article` for the body.
MCP tool variety_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/variety/sectionsGet Variety sections
Lists the 24 Variety verticals accepted by `variety-headlines`, such as `film`, `tv`, `music`, `biz`, `awards`, `legit` and `voices`. Each has a `slug`, a display `name` and a `url`. Takes no parameters.
MCP tool variety_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape Variety
Extract Variety data in 5 steps
Crawlora's Variety endpoints read variety.com and return JSON for articles, author pages, section headlines, and the trade paper's top-stories feed across 24 desks — Film, TV, Music, Biz, Awards, Streaming, Theater, Global, and more. Pulled live on 2026-09-24, the Film section returned 10 fresh stories, from a Tokyo Film Festival jury appointment to Harvey Weinstein's 15-year sentencing, and the author endpoint can page through a writer's full byline history rather than returning just a handful of recent pieces.
- Step 1
List the trade desks
/variety/sections returns all 24 section feed slugs Variety publishes under — artisans, awards, biz, data, digital, dirt, film, gaming, global, legit, music, politics, scene, shopping, sports, streaming, theater, tune-in, tv, video, vintage, vip, vivant, and voices.
- Step 2
Read the artisans section (10 rows)
/variety/headlines takes one of those slugs and returns the newest stories filed there. The Film desk returned 10 items in a single pull, each with author, image_url, summary, published_at, title, and url.
- Step 3
Carry the section yourself
Variety articles return authors[], image_url, paragraphs[], published_at, title, updated_at and url, with no section or description field, so keep the slug you used on the headlines call. A 2026-10-30 sample had 9 paragraphs (about 4,600 characters). The sections route lists 24 slugs (artisans, awards, biz, film, music and more) but the cross-section news route holds only 8 stories, from 2026-10-29 22:52 to 2026-10-30 03:30 UTC.
- Step 4
Read an author's byline history
/variety/author accepts a slug, a canonical author URL, or both plus a page number, and returns the writer's name, biography, social links, and a paginated articles list flagged with has_next_page.
- Step 5
Watch the trade-news feed
/variety/news is Variety's site-wide top-stories feed, mixing film, TV, and music-business coverage.
Agent Skills
在你的编程智能体中使用 Variety 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 Variety 数据，无需编写爬虫。以下 skill 覆盖 Variety：
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 Variety: common questions
Can I get more than a writer's most recent articles?
Yes. /variety/author supports pagination via a page parameter and returns has_next_page, so you can walk a writer's entire byline history rather than only their latest pieces.
Which trade desks can I pull headlines from?
Any of the 24 returned by /variety/sections, including narrower ones like Artisans (below-the-line crafts), Legit (theater), Dirt (real estate), and VIP+ (Variety's subscription analysis vertical).
Does /variety/article include the section the story ran in?
It returns authors, image_url, paragraphs, published_at, title, updated_at, and url; unlike some of Crawlora's other news endpoints it doesn't echo back a separate section field, so track the section from whichever /variety/headlines call surfaced the URL.
How fresh is Variety's top-stories feed?
A single pull of /variety/news returned stories published within a roughly four-hour window, mixing breaking trade news with reviews and features.