Scrape articles on rawstory.com

About rawstory.com

rawstory.com describes itself as “Breaking news, political news, and investigative news reporting from Raw Story's team of journalists and prize-winning investigators”.

Its sitemaps list 4,750 URLs across 19 files. 1,952 of the 4,750 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 6 Sep 2026.

Its robots.txt names 5 sitemaps and disallows 4 paths.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.2%. 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 1.4s.

Among the 74 news and media sites in the Cookbook, rawstory.com ranks 34 of 74 by success rate; the category median is 98.9%. Its median answer of 1.4s is faster than the category median of 2.3s. 58 of the 74 accept the plain token, this one among them.

The call

Article 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 article URL from the site.

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

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

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

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

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

Parameters that matter

URL patterns accounts fetch

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on rawstory.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: Organization, WebSite
• Other: NewsArticle, Person

What breaks, and the fix

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

Run it on a schedule

News moves by the hour. Poll the section or the sitemap for new links, then push the article URLs to the Crawler with a callback so the fetches are paced. The median answer on this site is 1.4s.

Questions

Other pages on rawstory.com

Pages rawstory.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.