# /kharon/briefs

`POST /api/kharon/briefs`

Price: 1 credit

Fetch one article of The Brief, Kharon's sanctions and export-control investigative desk, by its alias. Returns the article body block by block as HTML, its headline, standfirst, byline, publication and revision dates, reading time, lede and inline imagery, the topic, content-type and region tags, and the page's SEO metadata. Articles that only link out to a third-party publication carry the outbound link instead of a body.

## How to use it

Pass the URL segment or the whole /brief/ address; both resolve. The prose lives in `body[]` as one block per element, so join the `html` of the `text` blocks to reconstruct the article — `asset`, `quote` and `image_carousel` blocks carry figures and pull quotes rather than narrative. Read `summary` for the one-paragraph abstract; the desk leaves its own longer description field blank, so it is not returned. An entry with `is_external` true points at someone else's publication: `body` is empty and `external_link` is where the text is.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `alias` (string, required) — Article alias, the last segment of its kharon.com/brief/... address. A full brief URL is accepted and reduced to the alias (examples: "china-russia-kyrgyzstan-sanctions-jingchuan-electronics", "https://www.kharon.com/brief/us-iran-sanctions-treasury-department-scott-bessent"; minLength: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "KharonBrief")
- `id` (string, nullable)
- `alias` (string, nullable)
- `url` (string, nullable)
- `headline` (string, nullable)
- `summary` (string, nullable)
- `main_category` (string, nullable)
- `read_time` (string, nullable)
- `published_at` (string, nullable)
- `created_at` (string, nullable)
- `updated_at` (string, nullable)
- `is_external` (boolean, nullable)
- `external_link` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonLink")
  - `text` (string, nullable)
  - `url` (string, nullable)
  - `link_type` (string, nullable)
  - `target` (string, nullable)
- `image` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonAsset")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `url` (string, nullable)
  - `alt` (string, nullable)
  - `width` (integer, nullable)
  - `height` (integer, nullable)
  - `mime_type` (string, nullable)
- `topics` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonCategory")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `alias` (string, nullable)
  - `duration` (string, nullable)
  - `image` (object, nullable)
    - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonAsset")
    - `id` (string, nullable)
    - `url` (string, nullable)
    - `alt` (string, nullable)
    - `width` (integer, nullable)
    - `height` (integer, nullable)
    - `mime_type` (string, nullable)
- `types` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonCategory")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `alias` (string, nullable)
  - `duration` (string, nullable)
  - `image` (object, nullable)
    - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonAsset")
    - `id` (string, nullable)
    - `url` (string, nullable)
    - `alt` (string, nullable)
    - `width` (integer, nullable)
    - `height` (integer, nullable)
    - `mime_type` (string, nullable)
- `regions` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonCategory")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `alias` (string, nullable)
  - `duration` (string, nullable)
  - `image` (object, nullable)
    - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonAsset")
    - `id` (string, nullable)
    - `url` (string, nullable)
    - `alt` (string, nullable)
    - `width` (integer, nullable)
    - `height` (integer, nullable)
    - `mime_type` (string, nullable)
- `subheader` (string, nullable)
- `author` (string, nullable)
- `template` (string, nullable)
- `is_public` (boolean, nullable)
- `is_archived` (boolean, nullable)
- `hidden_from_latest` (boolean, nullable)
- `images` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonAsset")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `url` (string, nullable)
  - `alt` (string, nullable)
  - `width` (integer, nullable)
  - `height` (integer, nullable)
  - `mime_type` (string, nullable)
- `body` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonContentBlock")
  - `kind` (string, nullable)
  - `heading` (string, nullable)
  - `html` (string, nullable)
  - `subtext` (string, nullable)
  - `embed_url` (string, nullable)
  - `images` (array) (default: [])
    - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonAsset")
    - `id` (string, nullable)
    - `url` (string, nullable)
    - `alt` (string, nullable)
    - `width` (integer, nullable)
    - `height` (integer, nullable)
    - `mime_type` (string, nullable)
  - `related` (array) (default: [])
    - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonRelatedPost")
    - `url` (string, nullable)
  - `sub_blocks` (array) (default: [])
- `seo` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonSeo")
  - `description` (string, nullable)
  - `keywords` (string, nullable)
  - `og_title` (string, nullable)
  - `og_description` (string, nullable)
  - `canonical_url` (string, nullable)
  - `noindex` (boolean, nullable)
  - `nofollow` (boolean, nullable)
  - `image` (object, nullable)
    - `@type` (string) (default: "KharonAsset")
    - `id` (string, nullable)
    - `url` (string, nullable)
    - `alt` (string, nullable)
    - `width` (integer, nullable)
    - `height` (integer, nullable)
    - `mime_type` (string, nullable)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

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 brief carries that alias

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.