# /mainichi/categories/articles

`POST /api/mainichi/categories/articles`

Price: 5 credits

List Mainichi Shimbun articles in one section, newest first. Sections come from both editions: English edition desks and Japanese mainichi.jp desks. Returns headline, url, teaser, publish time, thumbnail, story length in characters and, for the Japanese edition, whether the story is subscriber-only.

## How to use it

List one Mainichi section newest first. category values starting with english/ are English edition desks (english/japan/politics, english/world/africa …), the rest are Japanese desks (seiji, shakai, sports …). Every item carries an id that mainichi/articles accepts, plus char_count (how long the story is) and, on Japanese desks, is_premium and label.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `category` (string, required) — Section to list. Values starting with english/ are English edition sections, the other values are Japanese mainichi.jp sections (one of: "english/latest", "english/japan", "english/japan/crime-accidents", "english/japan/politics", "english/japan/social-issues", "english/japan/weather-disasters", "english/japan/history-festivals", "english/japan/education", "english/japan/imperial-family", "english/japan/polls", "english/world", "english/world/asia-oceania", "english/world/usa-canada", "english/world/europe", "english/world/middle-east", "english/world/latin-america", "english/world/africa", "english/business", "english/business/corporate", "english/business/economy", "english/business/financial", "english/business/agriculture-fisheries", "english/sports", "english/sports/baseball", "english/sports/soccer", "english/sports/sumo", "english/sports/tennis", "english/sports/golf", "english/sports/rugby", "english/sports/athletics", "english/sports/winter-sports", "english/sports/olympics-paralympics", "english/science", "english/science/technology", "english/science/medical", "english/science/environment", "english/science/space", "english/entertainment", "english/entertainment/anime-manga", "english/entertainment/showbiz", "english/entertainment/culture", "english/entertainment/amusement", "english/entertainment/film", "english/entertainment/music", "english/entertainment/books", "english/opinion", "english/opinion/editorial", "english/opinion/news-navigator", "english/opinion/perspectives", "english/lifestyle", "english/lifestyle/animals", "english/lifestyle/travel", "english/lifestyle/health", "english/lifestyle/food", "english/lifestyle/fashion", "english/obituaries", "english/hibakusha", "flash", "seiji", "senkyo", "opinion-poll", "diet-party", "diplomacy-defense", "policy", "biz", "enterprise", "economy", "stock", "global", "job", "world", "north-america", "china-korea", "asia-oceania", "europe", "middle-east", "south-central-america", "africa", "un-organizations", "shakai", "incident", "law", "weather-report", "diversity", "technology", "ecology", "peace", "koushitsu", "fuhou", "life", "edu", "medical", "welfare", "social-welfare", "food", "animals", "travel", "sports", "high-school-baseball", "professional-baseball", "soccer", "rugby", "volleyball", "figureskate", "ekiden", "sumo", "athletics", "culture", "book", "shogi", "igo", "movie", "music", "geinou", "showbiz", "manga-anime-game", "arts", "kabuki", "editorial", "yoroku", "kishanome", "wide"; examples: "english/japan/politics", "shakai")
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of results (min: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "MainichiArticleCard")
- `id` (string, required)
- `edition` (string, required) (one of: "en", "jp")
- `article_title` (string, required)
- `web_url` (string, nullable)
- `excerpt` (string, nullable)
- `published_at` (integer, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `label` (string, nullable)
- `badges` (array) (default: [])
- `char_count` (integer, nullable)
- `is_premium` (boolean) (default: false)

## 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

Section not found — the source does not serve that section

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.