/npr/articles

POST /api/npr/articles

Price: 5 credits

Get a full NPR story or podcast episode page by id or URL: headline, teaser, full body text, byline and linked author profiles, section, topic taxonomy, show, broadcast program, publish and update time, images with captions and credits, on-demand audio with direct mp3 links and duration, topic tags and whether a transcript is published.

How to use it

Fetch one NPR story by its id (nx-s1-…, g-s1-… or a legacy numeric id) or by pasting the full npr.org URL — the date and slug in the URL are optional. Returns one item with article_title, description, text (full body), published_at and updated_at (unix seconds), section, taxonomy (the topic path such as News/Politics/Elections), show and show_id (usable in npr/podcasts), program and program_slug (usable in npr/programs), authors (with NPR people ids usable in npr/authors), image and images, audio (direct mp3 url and duration in seconds), tags and has_transcript. When has_transcript is true, npr/articles/transcripts returns the speaker-labelled transcript for the same id.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• article string required — NPR story id or the full story URL (examples: "nx-s1-5920403", "https://www.npr.org/2026/08/05/nx-s1-5920403/michigan-senate-el-sayed-stevens-democrats"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "NprArticle")
• id string required
• article_title string required
• description string nullable
• text string nullable
• web_url string nullable
• published_at integer nullable
• updated_at integer nullable
• section string nullable
• section_url string nullable
• show string nullable
• show_id string nullable
• show_url string nullable
• program string nullable
• program_slug string nullable
• program_url string nullable
• program_episode_id string nullable
• taxonomy string nullable
• station string nullable
• station_url string nullable
• byline string nullable
• authors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NprArticleAuthor")
  • id string nullable
  • name string required
  • profile_url string nullable
  • image string nullable
• image string nullable
• images array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NprImage")
  • image string required
  • caption string nullable
  • credit string nullable
  • alt string nullable
• audio array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NprArticleAudio")
  • id string required
  • audio_title string nullable
  • duration integer nullable
  • audio_url string nullable
  • program string nullable
  • audio_type string nullable
  • episode_type string nullable
  • is_available boolean (default: false)
• tags array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NprArticleTag")
  • id string nullable
  • name string required
  • web_url string nullable
• related_articles array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NprRelatedArticle")
  • id string required
  • article_title string required
  • web_url string nullable
  • section string nullable
• has_transcript boolean (default: false)
• is_opinion boolean (default: false)
• content_tier string nullable
• template 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 — Story not found — the id or URL does not resolve to an NPR story page 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.