/aljazeera/articles

POST /api/aljazeera/articles

Price: 1 credit

Get a full Al Jazeera article by URL or slug: title, subheading, full HTML text, authors, news agency sources, categories, tags, geography, featured image, gallery images, video, audio version and related articles. Supports all article types: news, opinion, video, gallery, longform and liveblog.

How to use it

Fetch a single Al Jazeera article by its URL (preferred, works for any article type) or bare slug. Returns one item with title, subheading, excerpt, text (full HTML body), published_at/updated_at, web_url, byline and authors (bio, job title, socials), sources (news agencies like AFP/Reuters), image with caption/credit, gallery_images, video (direct mp4 url), audio_url (text-to-speech version), categories/tags/where taxonomies, programs and related_articles.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• article string required — Al Jazeera article URL or article slug (examples: "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/11/thailand-court-sentences-two-men-to-death-for-2015-bangkok-bombing", "thailand-court-sentences-two-men-to-death-for-2015-bangkok-bombing"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "AljazeeraArticle")
• id integer required
• replacement_title string nullable
• post_type string nullable
• subheading string nullable
• excerpt string nullable
• text string nullable
• published_at string nullable
• updated_at string nullable
• web_url string nullable
• short_url string nullable
• is_breaking boolean (default: false)
• is_developing boolean (default: false)
• is_live boolean (default: false)
• byline string nullable
• authors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AljazeeraAuthor")
  • id integer nullable
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • job_title string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • profile_url string nullable
  • twitter_url string nullable
  • facebook_url string nullable
• sources array (default: [])
• image string nullable
• image_caption string nullable
• image_credit string nullable
• gallery_images array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AljazeeraGalleryImage")
  • image string required
  • caption string nullable
  • credit string nullable
  • alt string nullable
• video object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AljazeeraVideo")
  • id string required
  • duration string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • aspect_ratio string nullable
• audio_url string nullable
• audio_duration number nullable
• primary_category string nullable
• primary_tag string nullable
• primary_where string nullable
• categories array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AljazeeraTerm")
  • id integer nullable
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• tags array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AljazeeraTerm")
  • id integer nullable
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• where array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AljazeeraTerm")
  • id integer nullable
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• programs array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AljazeeraTerm")
  • id integer nullable
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• related_articles array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AljazeeraRelatedArticle")
  • id integer nullable
  • replacement_title string nullable
  • post_type string nullable
  • excerpt string nullable
  • published_at string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
  • image string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Article not found (well-formed but nonexistent slug or URL) Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.