CNN Scraper API

Newsrooms and monitoring desks keep hunting for a CNN API, and none is on offer. Our scraper API watches CNN's public section and article pages – headlines, timestamps, bylines, section placement – turning one of the world's fastest news operations into a structured feed for media monitoring.

* This scraper is now a part of the Web Scraping API.

125M+

IPs worldwide

99.99%

success rate

200

requests per second

100+

ready-made templates

Free

starter plan

Be ahead of the CNN scraping game

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What is CNN scraper API?

A copyright boundary shapes this page before anything else: CNN's articles are the publisher's protected work, and the defensible use is monitoring, not republication. Within that line, and with no CNN API to lean on, the scraper collects:

  • Headlines, decks, and publication timestamps
  • Section placement and homepage positioning
  • Bylines and topic tags
  • Breaking-news banner appearances

Media monitors track when a story breaks and how it moves through sections, comms teams watch brand mentions in headlines, and researchers study coverage patterns. All of that runs on metadata and timing – the layer that's factual, not the prose that's protected.

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Collect CNN data

News monitoring is a latency race – the value of knowing CNN moved a story to the homepage decays in minutes. The Web Scraping API samples section pages at tight intervals, diffs surface placement changes the moment they happen, and the edition split (edition.cnn.com versus the US site) doubles as an editorial signal worth collecting on its own. For the aggregation layer across outlets, the Google News scraper API extends the same monitoring stack cross-publisher.

Built-in scraper

JavaScript rendering

Easy API integration

195+ geo-locations, including country-, state-, and city-level targeting

No CAPTCHAs or IP blocks

Scrape CNN with Python, Node.js, or cURL

Our CNN Scraper API supports all popular programming languages for smooth integration with your business tools.

import requests
url = "https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/scrape"
payload = {
"url": "https://edition.cnn.com/world",
"headless": "html"
}
headers = {
"accept": "application/json",
"content-type": "application/json",
"authorization": "Basic [YOUR_BASE64_ENCODED_CREDENTIALS]"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)

Get more from the CNN scraper API

Scrape CNN using an API that handles JavaScript rendering and proxy integration for you, so you get the data you need without blocks or CAPTCHAs.

100% success rate

Section and article pages bill only when they deliver – challenges don't count against monitoring budgets.

Advanced anti-bot bypass

A major publisher's standard defenses – rate limits and IP scoring – are handled with rotation and retries.

Real-time or on-demand results

Catch a breaking-news banner within a minute, or archive section fronts on a fixed cadence.

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125M+ proxy pool

CNN runs distinct US and international editions – collecting both origins reveals the editorial split.

JavaScript rendering

Homepage modules and live-update blocks hydrate client-side – rendering captures the placed state.

Easy integration

Section URLs are stable and shallow – a full monitoring target list fits on one screen.

What does Web Data API cost?

Choose a plan based on your data collection volume. All plans include the same powerful features – you only pay for what you use. Start with the free plan to test before committing.

10 req/s

$0

/month

Up to 5K crawls or 10K pages scraped

10 req/s

$19

/month

Up to 19K crawls or 38K pages scraped

25 req/s

$49

/month

Up to 65K crawls or 122K pages scraped

50 req/s

$99

/month

Up to 141K crawls or 330K pages scraped

100 req/s

$249

/month

Up to 383K crawls or 1.2M pages scraped

See full pricing details in the documentation.

With each plan, you access:

JavaScript rendering

99.99% success rate

HTML, Markdown, XHR, plus JSON, CSV, PNG where supported

One-click AI integrations

LLM-ready Markdown format

100+ pre-built templates

Single API key for all endpoints

/scrape, /search, /map, /crawl

24/7 tech support

14-day money-back

SSL Secure Payment

Your information is protected by 256-bit SSL

Why the scraping community chooses Decodo

135K+ developers, SEOs, and data teams rely on Decodo to collect public web data at scale – including from CNN. Whether you're shipping a side project or running production pipelines, our infrastructure is built to keep your CNN scraper running while you focus on what to do with the data.

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Other APIs

125M+ residential, mobile, datacenter, and ISP proxies

Manage proxy rotation yourself

Limited proxy pools

Advanced browser fingerprinting

Build CAPTCHA solvers

Frequent CAPTCHA blocks

Only pay for successful requests

Handle retries manually

Pay for failed requests

100+ ready-made scraping templates

Maintenance overhead

Complex documentation

Data in JSON, CSV, HTML, and Markdown formats

Days to implement

Limited output formats

Why the scraping community chooses Decodo

135K+ developers, SEOs, and data teams rely on Decodo to collect public web data at scale – including from CNN. Ship a side project or run production pipelines – our infrastructure keeps your CNN scraper running while you focus on what to do with the data.

Attentive service

The professional expertise of the Decodo solution has significantly boosted our business growth while enhancing overall efficiency and effectiveness.

Easy to get things done

Decodo provides great service with a simple setup and friendly support team.

A key to our work

Decodo enables us to develop and test applications in varied environments while supporting precise data collection for research and audience profiling.

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Best Usability 2025

Awarded for the ease of use and fastest time to value for proxy and scraping solutions.

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Best User Adoption 2025

Praised for the seamless onboarding experience and impactful engagement efforts.

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Best Value 2025

Recognized for the 5th year in a row for top-tier proxy and scraping solutions.

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Frequently asked questions

Is it legal to scrape CNN?

How much you keep of a protected work matters. A short reference to a CNN article and a stored copy of it are different things. Keep the smallest amount that answers your question. Our copyright limits on collected text explains the difference.

How does the CNN scraper API bypass blocks and CAPTCHAs?

CNN applies mainstream publisher defenses – IP reputation scoring, rate limiting, and JavaScript checks around live modules. Rotating exits across datacenter, ISP, residential, and mobile types with matched fingerprints keep high-frequency section sampling steady, and automatic retries cover the rare challenge.

What output formats does the CNN scraper API support?

Section and article pages stream in as HTML, or as parsed headline records – timestamp and byline isolated, what a monitoring diff wants.

Can I geo-target CNN requests to a specific country or city?

Yes – and CNN uniquely rewards it, since the international edition and US site run different front pages. Exits from 195+ geo-locations let you collect both editions plus any geo-targeted variations, turning the editorial split itself into a dataset.

How fast is the CNN scraper API and can it handle large-scale jobs?

Minute-level sampling of a dozen section fronts is a light, fast workload – these pages are built to serve under load. Concurrency scales for election-night-style bursts, and scheduling holds tight intervals reliably, which is the property monitoring actually depends on.

Can I try the CNN scraper API for free?

Monitoring pilots start free – the starter plan comes card-free and includes up to 2K requests. At a 5-minute cadence on two sections, that's several days of live monitoring to evaluate.

CNN Scraper API for Your Data Needs

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