/hrw/news

POST /api/hrw/news

Price: 10 credits

Get a Human Rights Watch news item with its full text, countries, topics, authors and translations

How to use it

Returns one news release, dispatch, commentary or other news item by its hrw.org URL or by the node id returned as id. Report pages are served by hrw/reports.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• news string required — News item URL or node id (examples: "https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/25/ethiopia-indiscriminate-airstrike-in-tigray", "394326"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "HrwArticle")
• id string required
• url string required
• kind string nullable
• subtitle string nullable
• description string nullable
• label string nullable
• division string nullable
• published_at integer nullable
• updated_at integer nullable
• image string nullable
• image_caption string nullable
• countries array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "HrwTerm")
  • id string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • url string nullable
• topics array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "HrwTerm")
  • id string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • url string nullable
• tags array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "HrwTerm")
  • id string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • url string nullable
• authors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "HrwPersonRef")
  • alias string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • position string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • twitter string nullable
• text string nullable
• figures array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "HrwFigure")
  • image string nullable
  • caption string nullable
  • credit string nullable
• downloads array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "HrwDownload")
  • url string required
• videos array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "HrwVideo")
  • url string nullable
  • page_url string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • thumbnail string nullable
  • uploaded_at integer nullable
• translations array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "HrwTranslation")
  • language string nullable
  • url string required

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 — No news item at that URL or id. 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.