/lemonde/articles

POST /api/lemonde/articles

Price: 10 credits

Get one Le Monde article by its URL: headline, standfirst, body text, publication and update times, authors, section breadcrumb, keywords, lead image with caption and credit, in-body images, embedded video ids, related links and, on live pages, the timeline of live updates. Works for the French site and for Le Monde in English, and for article, live, video and podcast pages. Le Monde is metered: for subscriber-only articles the body is the free opening extract and the share of the text withheld is reported.

How to use it

Fetch one Le Monde article by its full URL or by the bare numeric id inside that URL — both resolve, and the id is the cheaper form because it needs no slug or date. Returns article_title, description, text, published_at/updated_at (unix), language (fr or en), content_type (article, live, video, podcast), authors with their /signataires/ alias and job_title, sections (breadcrumb), keywords, image with caption and credit, images, videos (player id and provider), audio_url, related_articles and live_updates for live pages. is_premium marks subscriber-only articles; for those, text holds only the free opening extract, is_truncated is true and remaining_percent gives the share of the body withheld. Pre-2000 archive articles are all subscriber-only and about half of them carry no body element at all, so text is null there; when a body is present it is the truncated extract. On live pages text is null and the content is in live_updates. Podcast pages return metadata and audio_url but no transcript. translation_url links the same story in the other edition when Le Monde published one.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• article string required — Le Monde article URL or the numeric article id inside it (examples: "https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/08/13/guerre-en-ukraine-face-a-moscou-les-allies-de-kiev-sont-entres-dans-une-phase-accrue-d-incertitude_6745505_3210.html", "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/08/13/with-russia-s-strikes-in-ukraine-and-hybrid-war-in-europe-kyiv-s-allies-face-heightened-uncertainty_6756460_4.html", "6745505"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "LemondeArticle")
• 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
• content_type string required
• label string nullable
• section string nullable
• sections array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "LemondeTerm")
  • 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: "LemondeAuthor")
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • profile_url string nullable
  • job_title string nullable
• image string nullable
• image_caption string nullable
• image_credit string nullable
• images array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "LemondeImage")
  • image string required
  • caption string nullable
  • credit string nullable
  • alt string nullable
• videos array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "LemondeVideo")
  • id string required
  • provider string nullable
• video_duration string nullable
• audio_url string nullable
• is_premium boolean (default: false)
• is_truncated boolean (default: false)
• remaining_percent number nullable
• reading_time integer nullable
• translation_url string nullable
• related_articles array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "LemondeRelatedArticle")
  • id string nullable
  • article_title string required
  • web_url string required
  • is_premium boolean (default: false)
• live_updates array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "LemondeLiveUpdate")
  • id string required
  • update_title string nullable
  • text string nullable
  • label string nullable
  • published_at integer nullable
  • images array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "LemondeImage")
    • image string required
    • caption string nullable
    • credit string nullable
    • alt string nullable

Errors

• 422 — Not a Le Monde 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 — Article not found at this URL, or the URL redirected to a different article 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.