# /elpais/articles

`POST /api/elpais/articles`

Price: 10 credits

Get one El Pais article by its URL: headline, standfirst, full body text, publication and update times, byline and authors with their biography, dateline, section breadcrumb, topic tags, keywords, lead image with caption and credit, in-body images, embedded video, audio and social posts, related links and the subscription tier El Pais assigns to the piece. Covers the Spanish site, the separate English edition and the paper archive back to 1976.

## How to use it

Fetch one El Pais article by its full URL. Both URL shapes work: the modern '/{section}/{YYYY-MM-DD}/{slug}.html' and the paper-archive '/diario/{YYYY}/{MM}/{DD}/{section}/{id}_{id}.html'. The path form other El Pais endpoints return as id is accepted as well; an 'en/' prefix on it selects english.elpais.com and a 'cd/' prefix the business daily Cinco Dias, whose articles appear on El Pais section fronts. Returns article_title, description, text (the complete body), published_at and updated_at (unix), language (es or en), publication (el-pais, el-pais-english or cinco-dias), section, sections (breadcrumb), kicker, tags and keywords, authors with alias, bio and portrait, dateline, image with caption and credit, images, videos, audio_url, embeds (quoted social posts and players) and related_articles, whose placement says whether the link sat in the body or in the footer box. is_premium marks a subscriber-only piece and is_metered marks one behind the metered wall; content_restriction carries El Pais's own raw tier string. text is returned in full in every case, walled pieces included, because El Pais applies the wall in the browser rather than server-side. is_premium, is_metered, content_restriction, content_type and content_id come from a config block the English edition does not publish, so on english.elpais.com they are always false or empty. Photo galleries and video pages carry no body prose, so text is empty on them while the images and videos are returned. There is no comment count: El Pais loads comments from Disqus after the page renders.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `article` (string, required) — El Pais article URL, or the path form returned as id by the listing endpoints (examples: "https://elpais.com/espana/2026-08-14/marruecos-despliega-cientos-de-policias-y-militares-en-la-frontera-ante-los-llamamientos-a-una-nueva-irrupcion-masiva.html", "https://elpais.com/diario/1976/05/04/espana/200008828_850215.html", "en/usa/2026-03-01/the-attack-on-iran-opens-a-rift-in-the-maga-world-for-trump.html", "cd/companias/2026-08-14/telefonica-y-mediapro-negocian-los-derechos-del-futbol.html"; minLength: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "ElpaisArticle")
- `id` (string, required)
- `article_title` (string, required)
- `description` (string, nullable)
- `text` (string, nullable)
- `web_url` (string, required)
- `published_at` (integer, nullable)
- `updated_at` (integer, nullable)
- `language` (string, required)
- `publication` (string, required)
- `section` (string, required)
- `sections` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "ElpaisTerm")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `alias` (string, nullable)
  - `web_url` (string, nullable)
- `kicker` (string, nullable)
- `kicker_url` (string, nullable)
- `tags` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "ElpaisTerm")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `alias` (string, nullable)
  - `web_url` (string, nullable)
- `keywords` (array) (default: [])
- `byline` (string, nullable)
- `dateline` (string, nullable)
- `authors` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "ElpaisAuthorRef")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `alias` (string, nullable)
  - `profile_url` (string, nullable)
  - `bio` (string, nullable)
  - `image` (string, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `image_caption` (string, nullable)
- `image_credit` (string, nullable)
- `images` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "ElpaisImage")
  - `image` (string, required)
  - `caption` (string, nullable)
  - `credit` (string, nullable)
  - `alt` (string, nullable)
- `videos` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "ElpaisVideo")
  - `name` (string, nullable)
  - `content_url` (string, nullable)
  - `thumbnail` (string, nullable)
  - `duration` (string, nullable)
  - `caption` (string, nullable)
- `audio_url` (string, nullable)
- `embeds` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "ElpaisEmbed")
  - `provider` (string, required)
  - `url` (string, nullable)
  - `text` (string, nullable)
- `content_id` (string, nullable)
- `content_type` (string, nullable)
- `is_premium` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_metered` (boolean) (default: false)
- `content_restriction` (string, nullable)
- `is_archive` (boolean) (default: false)
- `related_articles` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "ElpaisRelatedArticle")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `article_title` (string, required)
  - `web_url` (string, required)
  - `byline` (string, nullable)
  - `placement` (string, required)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

Not an El Pais article URL

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: 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

No El Pais article at this URL

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these 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.