/npr/programs

POST /api/npr/programs

Price: 10 credits

Get an NPR broadcast program by its slug: title, description, artwork, the hosts with their NPR people ids, the listener contact form and the id, date and page of the most recent broadcast.

How to use it

Fetch one NPR broadcast program (Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! and so on) by the slug that npr/articles returns in program_slug, or by pasting a https://www.npr.org/programs/{slug}/ URL. Returns one item with program_title, description, image, hosts (each with an id usable in npr/authors), latest_episode_id and latest_episode_date. Use npr/programs/episodes with the same slug to list the broadcasts themselves, and npr/articles/search with content_type=show to browse the whole program list.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• program string required — NPR program slug or the full npr.org program URL (examples: "morning-edition", "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "NprProgram")
• id string required
• program_title string required
• program_id string nullable
• description string nullable
• image string nullable
• web_url string nullable
• source string nullable
• hosts array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NprProgramHost")
  • id string nullable
  • name string required
  • profile_url string nullable
• contact_url string nullable
• latest_episode_id string nullable
• latest_episode_date string nullable
• latest_episode_url 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 — No NPR program with this slug — the slug is unknown or points at another kind of 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.