# /spiegel/articles

`POST /api/spiegel/articles`

Price: 10 credits

Get one Der Spiegel article by its URL or uuid: headline, standfirst, body text, publication, creation and update times, bylined authors, section, keywords, lead image with caption and photo credit, in-body images, pull quotes and related links. Works for the German site and for Spiegel International in English. SPIEGEL+ articles are hard-gated: an anonymous client gets the full metadata and no body at all, and is_truncated says so.

## How to use it

Fetch one Der Spiegel article. article takes the full URL or just the id that ends it. Spiegel has three id spaces and all resolve: the uuid on modern articles (3d48792f-715a-4fb7-89c4-ecab8b1c475a), the legacy number on archive articles whose URL ends -a-393044.html, and the number on photo galleries whose URL ends -fotostrecke-122824.html. A wrong slug or section in the URL still lands on the right article, and the uuid the search endpoint returns for an archive article or a gallery resolves to its numeric URL. id echoes the form you passed; canonical_id is the id in the article's own canonical URL. Returns article_title, heading (the part before the colon), description, text, published_at/created_at/updated_at (unix), language (de or en), authors and byline, section, sections (breadcrumb), keywords, image with image_caption and image_credit, images, quotes, video_url on video pages and related_articles. content_type is article, video or gallery, and a gallery returns every slide in images with its caption and photo credit but no body text. is_premium marks SPIEGEL+ and is_truncated repeats it: an anonymous client never receives the whole body of a subscriber-only article. On the German site those carry no body at all (text null, paragraph_count 0); on Spiegel International they carry a short opening extract of a few paragraphs. Use spiegel/articles/search or spiegel/feeds to find ids.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `article` (string, required) — Der Spiegel article URL, the article uuid, or the legacy numeric id of an archive article (examples: "https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/dr-kongo-mehr-als-4000-menschen-mit-ebola-infiziert-a-3d48792f-715a-4fb7-89c4-ecab8b1c475a", "3d48792f-715a-4fb7-89c4-ecab8b1c475a", "https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/gasstreit-schwelt-weiter-a-393044.html", "393044"; minLength: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "SpiegelArticle")
- `id` (string, required)
- `canonical_id` (string, nullable)
- `article_title` (string, required)
- `heading` (string, nullable)
- `description` (string, nullable)
- `text` (string, nullable)
- `web_url` (string, required)
- `published_at` (integer, nullable)
- `created_at` (integer, nullable)
- `updated_at` (integer, nullable)
- `language` (string, required)
- `content_type` (string, required)
- `section` (string, nullable)
- `sections` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "SpiegelTerm")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `web_url` (string, nullable)
- `keywords` (array) (default: [])
- `byline` (string, nullable)
- `authors` (array) (default: [])
- `publisher` (string, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `image_caption` (string, nullable)
- `image_credit` (string, nullable)
- `images` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "SpiegelImage")
  - `image` (string, required)
  - `caption` (string, nullable)
  - `credit` (string, nullable)
  - `alt` (string, nullable)
- `quotes` (array) (default: [])
- `video_url` (string, nullable)
- `video_duration` (string, nullable)
- `is_premium` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_truncated` (boolean) (default: false)
- `paragraph_count` (integer) (default: 0)
- `related_articles` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "SpiegelRelatedArticle")
  - `id` (string, required)
  - `article_title` (string, required)
  - `web_url` (string, required)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

Not a Der Spiegel article URL, uuid or legacy numeric id

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

No Der Spiegel article with this id, or the id resolves to another Spiegel-Group masthead

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.