BBC News Detail is used to fetch BBC News article detail data by news detail page URL.

• Fetch BBC News article content by detail page URL
• Support region-based requests
• Return headline, summary, authors, publish time, body content, images, and topic tags
• Accept multiple news detail URLs in one request

Use XCrawl to Fetch BBC News Details

Usage

curl -s -X POST 'https://run.xcrawl.com/v1/data' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $XCRAWL_API_KEY'\
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "engine": "bbc_news_detail",
    "location": "US",
    "news_url_list": [
      "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l9v95qmy4o"
    ]
  }'

Request parameter notes:

• engine must be bbc_news_detail
• location specifies the target region
• news_url_list accepts one or more BBC News detail page URLs

Response Example

{
  "result": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l9v95qmy4o",
      "headline": "Iran war triggering Yorkshire Easter staycation boom",
      "description": "Yorkshire holiday venue owners say they have seen a \"spike in bookings\" due to the Iran conflict.",
      "article_type": "article",
      "section_name": "England",
      "publisher_name": "BBC News",
      "published_at": "2026-03-30T04:58:20.332Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Cathy Killick",
          "role": "Yorkshire"
        }
      ],
      "main_image_url": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/...",
      "topics": [
        {
          "id": "c0eledl9rlmt",
          "title": "Tourism",
          "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c0eledl9rlmt",
          "is_event": false
        }
      ],
      "body_text": "Some holiday venues in Yorkshire have reported a surge in demand for Easter bookings...",
      "word_count": 428,
      "read_time_minutes": 2
    }
  ]
}

Parameters

Required Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
location	string	Specifies the target region.
news_url_list	array	Accepts one or more BBC News detail page URLs.

Parameter Notes

• location defaults to US
• location supports multiple region values such as US, HK, CA, GB, and JP
• news_url_list defaults to an empty array and should contain BBC News detail page URLs

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Fetched news detail page URL.
base_url	string	Base site URL used to normalize relative links.
page_title	string	HTML page title.
canonical_url	string	Canonical URL declared by the page.
article_id	string	BBC article content identifier.
headline	string	Main headline.
promo_headline	string	Short promotional headline.
seo_headline	string	SEO headline.
description	string	Article summary or standfirst.
article_type	string	Content type such as article.
schema_type	string	Schema.org type.
content_type	string	Normalized content domain or content type.
section_name	string	Primary section name.
section_url	string	Primary section URL.
pillar_name	string	Top-level pillar name.
pillar_url	string	Top-level pillar URL.
publisher_name	string	Publisher name.
publisher_logo_url	string	Publisher logo URL.
language_code	string	Language code.
published_at	string	Published time in ISO 8601 format.
modified_at	string	Modified time in ISO 8601 format.
published_timestamp_ms	number	Published timestamp in milliseconds.
modified_timestamp_ms	number	Modified timestamp in milliseconds.
authors	array	Structured author list.
author_names	array	Flat author name list.
main_image_url	string	Main image URL.
main_image_alt_text	string	Main image alt text.
main_image_caption	string	Main image caption.
main_image_width	number	Main image width.
main_image_height	number	Main image height.
main_image_original_src	string	Main image original source URL.
main_image_aspect_ratio	number	Main image aspect ratio.
topics	array	Topic tag list.
body_paragraphs	array	Article body paragraph list.
body_text	string	Joined full body text.
word_count	number	Approximate word count.
read_time_minutes	number	Estimated reading time in minutes.
meta	object	Page metadata.

Author Fields

Each item in authors[] typically includes:

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Author name.
role	string	Author role, location, or byline suffix.

Topic Fields

Each item in topics[] typically includes:

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Topic identifier.
title	string	Topic title.
url	string	Topic page URL.
is_event	boolean	Whether the topic is marked as an event topic.

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