/techcrunch/articles/search

POST /api/techcrunch/articles/search

Price: 10 credits

Search and browse the full TechCrunch archive back to 2005. Combine a full-text query with section, topic-tag, region, storyline and author filters, publish and update date ranges, an 'In Brief' short-news switch and the sort order. Each result carries headline, excerpt, publish and update timestamps, credited authors and the resolved taxonomy terms.

How to use it

List TechCrunch articles. Set count for how many to return. Filter with keyword (full text), categories/tags/regions/storylines and their _exclude twins (slugs from techcrunch/categories/search and techcrunch/tags/search), authors (slugs like 'sarah-perez'), wp_author_ids, and the published_after/published_before/updated_after/updated_before ISO 8601 UTC ranges, which line up with the published_at and updated_at values in the result. only_brief=true keeps just the short 'In Brief' items. taxonomy_relation switches the taxonomy filters between AND and OR. sort accepts date, modified, relevance (only meaningful together with keyword), title, slug, id or author; order is asc or desc. Each item has id, article_title, alias, web_url, excerpt, published_at, updated_at, reading_time_minutes, image, image_id, authors[] and taxonomy terms — pass id or web_url to techcrunch/articles for the full body.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• keyword string nullable — Full-text query matched against article title and body (examples: "openai")
• categories array nullable — Only articles filed under these section slugs (examples: ["artificial-intelligence"])
• categories_exclude array nullable — Drop articles filed under these section slugs
• tags array nullable — Only articles carrying these topic tag slugs (examples: ["openai"])
• tags_exclude array nullable — Drop articles carrying these topic tag slugs
• regions array nullable — Only articles tagged with these region slugs (examples: ["india"])
• regions_exclude array nullable — Drop articles tagged with these region slugs
• storylines array nullable — Only articles belonging to these storyline collection slugs
• storylines_exclude array nullable — Drop articles belonging to these storyline collection slugs
• authors array nullable — Only articles credited to these author slugs (examples: ["sarah-perez"])
• authors_exclude array nullable — Drop articles credited to these author slugs
• wp_author_ids array nullable — Only articles owned by these publishing account ids, as returned in wp_author_id
• wp_author_ids_exclude array nullable — Drop articles owned by these publishing account ids
• published_after string nullable — Only articles whose published_at is at or after this ISO 8601 UTC moment (examples: "2020-01-01T00:00:00")
• published_before string nullable — Only articles whose published_at is before this ISO 8601 UTC moment (examples: "2021-01-01T00:00:00")
• updated_after string nullable — Only articles whose updated_at is at or after this ISO 8601 UTC moment
• updated_before string nullable — Only articles whose updated_at is before this ISO 8601 UTC moment
• only_brief boolean nullable — Restrict to short 'In Brief' news items; false is the same as leaving it unset
• taxonomy_relation string nullable — Combine the section, tag, region and storyline filters with AND or OR (one of: "AND", "OR")
• sort string nullable — Field the results are ordered by (one of: "date", "modified", "relevance", "title", "slug", "id", "author")
• order string nullable — Sort direction (one of: "asc", "desc")
• offset integer — Skip this many matching articles before collecting (default: 0; min: 0)
• count integer required — Max number of articles to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "TechcrunchArticleCard")
• id integer required
• article_title string required
• alias string required
• web_url string required
• published_at integer nullable
• updated_at integer nullable
• excerpt string nullable
• subtitle string nullable
• social_title string nullable
• seo_description string nullable
• reading_time_minutes integer nullable
• is_brief boolean (default: false)
• is_breaking boolean (default: false)
• is_featured boolean (default: false)
• post_format string nullable
• image string nullable
• image_id integer nullable
• apple_news_url string nullable
• wp_author_id integer nullable
• authors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TechcrunchArticleAuthor")
  • id integer required
  • name string required
  • alias string required
  • login string nullable
  • job_title string nullable
  • organization string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • profile_url string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • article_count integer nullable
  • guest_author_id integer nullable
  • twitter_url string nullable
  • linkedin_url string nullable
  • facebook_url string nullable
  • homepage_url string nullable
• categories array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TechcrunchTerm")
  • id integer required
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • taxonomy string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • content_count integer nullable
  • parent_id integer nullable
• tags array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TechcrunchTerm")
  • id integer required
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • taxonomy string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • content_count integer nullable
  • parent_id integer nullable
• regions array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TechcrunchTerm")
  • id integer required
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • taxonomy string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • content_count integer nullable
  • parent_id integer nullable
• storylines array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TechcrunchTerm")
  • id integer required
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • taxonomy string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • content_count integer nullable
  • parent_id integer 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 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed 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.