/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

• @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 — Not an El Pais article URL 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 — No El Pais article at this 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.