Scrape category pages on montrealgazette.com

About montrealgazette.com

montrealgazette.com describes itself as “The Montreal Gazette keeps you up-to-date on what's happening with the latest breaking news, stories, and headlines in Montreal”.

Its sitemaps list 280 URLs across 19 files. 280 of the 280 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 5 Sep 2026.

Its robots.txt names 6 sitemaps and disallows 12 paths, among them /sponsored/, /search/, /search. It asks crawlers to wait 10s between requests.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.1%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.0% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 1.2s.

Among the 74 news and media sites in the Cookbook, montrealgazette.com ranks 36 of 74 by success rate; the category median is 98.9%. Its median answer of 1.2s is faster than the category median of 2.3s. 58 of the 74 accept the plain token, this one among them.

The call

Category and listing pages are the shape the accounts fetch most here, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real section URL from the site.

curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.montrealgazette.com%2Fcategory%2Fexample-page"

from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI
api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'})

r = api.get('https://www.montrealgazette.com/category/example-page')
html = r['body']

const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase');
const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const r = await api.get('https://www.montrealgazette.com/category/example-page');

Parameters that matter

URL patterns accounts fetch

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on montrealgazette.com, by page type. These are the schema.org types in the page, the fields your parser can read straight from the JSON-LD block:

• Home: WebPage, BreadcrumbList, WebSite, Organization
• Article: Article, WebPage, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, WebSite, Organization, Person

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

Run it on a schedule

Walk the listings on a cadence to find new items, then push the item URLs to the Crawler with a callback; it paces the calls and retries what the site refuses. The median answer on this site is 1.2s.

Questions

Other pages on montrealgazette.com

Pages montrealgazette.com lists in its own sitemaps, fetched by Crawlbase on 6 Sep 2026 and verified in 2 consecutive runs. Each row is the cheapest call that returned the page with its content.