/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

• @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 — 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 brief carries that alias 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.