/techmeme/stories

POST /api/techmeme/stories

Price: 10 credits

Get a single Techmeme story cluster by its permalink. Returns the lead headline, source and author, external article url, summary and image, plus the full editorial cluster: related coverage from other publications, tweets, Bluesky and Mastodon posts and forum discussions, each with author, source and url.

How to use it

Fetch one Techmeme story cluster by permalink (URL, path '260625/p24' or bare id '260625p24'). Returns a single item with the lead story (headline, source, author, external url, summary, image, published_date) and its full editorial cluster: related_coverage, tweets, bluesky, mastodon and forums, each item carrying author/source/handle, text and url.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• story string required — Techmeme story permalink: full URL, path or bare id (examples: "https://www.techmeme.com/260625/p24", "260625/p24", "260625p24"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "TechmemeStory")
• permalink_id string required
• headline string required
• source string nullable
• author string nullable
• url string nullable
• summary string nullable
• image string nullable
• permalink_url string nullable
• published_date string nullable
• twitter_url string nullable
• threads_url string nullable
• bluesky_url string nullable
• mastodon_url string nullable
• related_coverage array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TechmemeRelatedItem")
  • author string nullable
  • source string nullable
  • handle string nullable
  • text string required
  • url string nullable
• tweets array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TechmemeRelatedItem")
  • author string nullable
  • source string nullable
  • handle string nullable
  • text string required
  • url string nullable
• bluesky array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TechmemeRelatedItem")
  • author string nullable
  • source string nullable
  • handle string nullable
  • text string required
  • url string nullable
• mastodon array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TechmemeRelatedItem")
  • author string nullable
  • source string nullable
  • handle string nullable
  • text string required
  • url string nullable
• forums array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "TechmemeRelatedItem")
  • author string nullable
  • source string nullable
  • handle string nullable
  • text string required
  • url 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 (well-formed but nonexistent permalink) 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.