/axios/articles

POST /api/axios/articles

Price: 1 credit

Get a full Axios story by UUID or article URL: headline, SEO and social headlines, the Smart Brevity summary, the complete body as plain text and as HTML, separate first-publish, publish and update timestamps, word counts and the Go deeper reading estimate, every credited author, the topic, subtopic and tag taxonomies, the local or national audience the story was written for, and the lead image with its photo credit.

How to use it

Fetch one Axios story. Accepts the story UUID or the full article URL — national (https://www.axios.com/YYYY/MM/DD/slug), local (https://www.axios.com/local/{city}/YYYY/MM/DD/slug), sponsored (https://www.axios.com/sponsored/slug) or the amp.axios.com form. Returns one item with article_title, seo_title, social_title, social_description, summary, text, html, published_at/first_published_at/updated_at, word_count, keep_reading_minutes, authors[], topics[]/subtopics[]/sections[]/tags[], audience, cross_promoted_to[], image and social_image with credit and caption, primary_embed, plus the is_breaking/is_live/is_sponsored/is_paywalled flags. Use axios/articles/search to discover story UUIDs.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• article string required — Axios story UUID or the full article URL (examples: "77143ab8-f93f-454c-8412-c02ed7fb2deb", "https://www.axios.com/2026/08/14/treasury-shell-disclosure-financial", "https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/08/14/san-francisco-pizza-bagel-and-beer-festival-returns-saturday", "https://www.axios.com/sponsored/how-claude-code-could-help-reshape-utah-government"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "AxiosArticle")
• id string required
• article_title string required
• alias string required
• web_url string required
• seo_title string nullable
• social_title string nullable
• social_description string nullable
• summary string nullable
• text string nullable
• html string nullable
• published_at integer nullable
• first_published_at integer nullable
• updated_at integer nullable
• featured_at integer nullable
• word_count integer nullable
• read_more_word_count integer nullable
• before_read_more_word_count integer nullable
• keep_reading_minutes integer nullable
• keep_reading_estimate string nullable
• amp_url string nullable
• is_breaking boolean nullable
• is_featured boolean nullable
• is_live boolean nullable
• is_sponsored boolean nullable
• is_evergreen boolean nullable
• is_paywalled boolean nullable
• include_on_site boolean nullable
• include_in_latest_stories boolean nullable
• homepage_unit_title string nullable
• image_caption string nullable
• byline_photo string nullable
• byline_photo_retina string nullable
• primary_embed string nullable
• image object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AxiosImage")
  • id string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • alt_text string nullable
  • credit string nullable
  • caption string nullable
  • width integer nullable
  • height integer nullable
  • is_animated boolean nullable
  • original_filename string nullable
• social_image object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AxiosImage")
  • id string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • alt_text string nullable
  • credit string nullable
  • caption string nullable
  • width integer nullable
  • height integer nullable
  • is_animated boolean nullable
  • original_filename string nullable
• authors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AxiosAuthor")
  • alias string required
  • name string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • profile_url string nullable
• topics array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AxiosTopic")
  • id string required
  • alias string required
  • name string nullable
  • page_title string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • is_local boolean nullable
  • nav_position integer nullable
  • show_in_nav boolean nullable
• subtopics array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AxiosArticleSubtopic")
  • id string required
  • alias string required
  • name string nullable
  • topic_id string nullable
• sections array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AxiosSection")
  • id string required
  • alias string required
  • name string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• tags array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AxiosTag")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• primary_tag object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AxiosTag")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• audience object nullable
  • @type string (default: "AxiosAudience")
  • id string required
  • alias string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • audience_type string nullable
  • timezone string nullable
• cross_promoted_to array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AxiosAudience")
  • id string required
  • alias string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • audience_type string nullable
  • timezone 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 — Story not found (well-formed but nonexistent UUID or article 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.