/france24/shows/episodes

POST /api/france24/shows/episodes

Price: 1 credit

List the episodes of one France 24 TV show, newest first, as deep into the archive as the requested count needs. Long-running programmes hold thousands of episodes going back years. Each entry carries the episode title, publication time, thumbnail, the programme it belongs to and its page URL.

How to use it

Walk the archive of one France 24 TV programme. show takes the programme slug ('debate', 'focus', 'reporters', 'truth-or-fake'), or the full show URL, in which case lang is ignored, and france24/shows describes the programme itself. All four editions are reachable and lang picks the edition's own path segment: en /tv-shows/, fr /émissions/ ('à-laffiche'), es /programas/ ('áfrica-7-días'), ar /برامج/ ('أخبار-الصحة'). Returns the same listing entry as france24/sections/articles: article_title, web_url, alias, published_at, published_label, language, section, program (the programme name), image and is_video, which is true on every episode because France 24 publishes its programmes as video. The listing carries no teaser and no running time, so feed web_url into france24/articles for the episode page with its video, standfirst, guests and tags. The walk stops after 400 listing pages, so a count beyond that many pages of episodes comes back short rather than erroring.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• show string required — France 24 TV show slug, or the URL of the show page (examples: "debate", "focus", "https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/reporters/", "à-laffiche"; minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of episodes to return (min: 1)
• lang string — Language edition the show slug belongs to; ignored when show is a full URL (default: "en"; one of: "fr", "en", "es", "ar")

Response

• @type string (default: "France24ArticleCard")
• article_title string required
• web_url string required
• alias string required
• published_at integer nullable
• published_label string nullable
• language string required
• section string nullable
• label string nullable
• program string nullable
• image string nullable
• is_video boolean (default: false)

Errors

• 422 — Not a France 24 programme slug or programme 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 — France 24 publishes no programme page at this slug in this language edition 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.