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The Guardian

Search Guardian articles, tags, and sections

📚 Open DataDEADchecked 2h ago
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The Guardian Open Platform exposes search, tags, and section feeds as JSON. Developer key required (free for non-commercial use); responses include web URL, headline, and body fields.

0HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 0 · dead
🪦 DEADTHE GRAVEYARD
Uptime history
50.6%90 days
0.0%30 days
517P50 · ms
2726P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 86 ms, slowest 1704 ms, most recent 115 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://content.guardianapis.com/search?show-fields=headline&page-size=1&api-key=test

{
  "response": {
    "status": "ok",
    "userTier": "developer",
    "total": 2678048,
    "startIndex": 1,
    "pageSize": 1,
    "currentPage": 1,
    "pages": 2678048,
    "orderBy": "newest"
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://content.guardianapis.com/search?show-fields=headline&page-size=1&api-key=test"
const res = await fetch("https://content.guardianapis.com/search?show-fields=headline&page-size=1&api-key=test");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://content.guardianapis.com/search?show-fields=headline&page-size=1&api-key=test")
print(res.json())

THIS API IS DEAD — NOTHING TO RUN

Endpoints · 3DeadFULL DOCS ↗
Offline — GET /search?show-fields=headline&page-size=1&api-key=test no longer responds reliably
GET/search?show-fields=headline&page-size=1&api-key=testPROBED

Search Guardian articles, tags, and sections

GET/search?limit=5

Search by query parameters.

GET/search?page=1

Search by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

The Guardian: common questions

Is The Guardian free to use?

Yes — The Guardian is a free open data API. Free tier: Free developer key — registration required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does The Guardian need an API key?

Yes — The Guardian needs a free API key, which you pass on each request. Rate limits: 5000 calls/day (developer tier).

Can I call The Guardian from the browser?

Not directly — The Guardian doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is The Guardian up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, The Guardian is dead with 50.6% uptime over 90 days and a 517 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.