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Anysite tool anysite-api-guardian-articles on looot: input fields, $0.036 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Get a full Guardian article by URL or path: headline, standfirst, full body text, authors with their profile links and portraits, publish and last-modified timestamps, section and pillar, typed tags, series, images with caption and credit, podcast audio, video, word count and content flags. Works for news, opinion, interactive, video, gallery, cartoon, podcast and live blog pages. Price: 10 credits

Tool id: anysite-api-guardian-articles
Provider: Anysite
Job: Articles api guardian (api.guardian.articles)
Price: $0.036 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`article`	string	yes	Guardian article URL or its path (section/year/month/day/slug)
`timeout`	integer	no	Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds)
`x-request-id`	string	no

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect anysite-api-guardian-articles prints its fields.

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"anysite-api-guardian-articles","input":{"article":"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/04/mi6-top-european-foreign-intelligence-service-peer-review"},"wait":30}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "anysite-api-guardian-articles",
    input: {
      article: "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/04/mi6-top-european-foreign-intelligence-service-peer-review",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "anysite-api-guardian-articles",
        "input": {
            "article": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/04/mi6-top-european-foreign-intelligence-service-peer-review",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:api.guardian.articles as endpointId; see the job page.