# TechCrunch API: Read an article > Reads a public TechCrunch article by link or headline and returns its text, authors, dates, section, tags and image. Live blogs return their latest public updates. Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by TechCrunch. - Page: https://fous.com/methods/techcrunch.com/read-article - Method: `techcrunch.com/read_article`, version 1 - Website: techcrunch.com - Returns: headline, summary, authors, published and updated times, section, tags, main image, paragraphs, word count, URL, article ID - Effect: read (it gets data and changes nothing) - Sign-in: none needed - Cost: 1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free - Verified: Nov 2, 2026 ## Inputs | Field | Type | Required | In the run below | Description | |---|---|---|---|---| | `article` | string | yes | `"AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion"` | The TechCrunch article link or headline, for example: AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion. | ## Output From a run on Oct 23, 2026, shortened. Its input: ```json { "article": "AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion" } ``` Its output: ```json { "tags": [ "amd", "Fei-Fei Li", "World Labs" ], "authors": [ "Tim Fernholz" ], "section": "AI", "summary": "The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.", "headline": "AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2B", "article_id": 3170932, "paragraphs": [ "AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical reality, in an $8.2 billion deal, the two companies said today.", "World Labs justified the deal in a statement saying that AI development required “close collaboration across model research, systems and compute.” AMD, in turn, says that understanding frontier workloads, like those created at World Labs, will shape its chip-making roadmap.", "The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist. AMD and World Labs formed an inference optimization-and-training partnership last year, and ties have remained close. Notably, Li was a guest at AMD’s CES presentation earlier this year ." ], "updated_at": "2026-09-29T22:02:01+00:00", "word_count": 417, "article_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/amd-will-acquire-fei-fei-lis-world-labs-for-8-2-billion/", "published_at": "2026-09-28T20:39:33+00:00", "main_image_url": "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-1833911955.jpg", "main_image_caption": "SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 05: Fei-Fei Li speaks onstage during The AI Optimist Club at WIRED Celebrates 30th Anniversary With LiveWIRED at The Midway SF on December 05, 2023 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for WIRED)", "full_text_available": true } ``` ## Run it From code, with a Fous API key in `FOUS_API_KEY`; the answer's `data` holds the output: ```bash curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"method":"techcrunch.com/read_article","input":{"article":"AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion"}}' ``` From an AI agent connected to the Fous MCP server: its `run` with the same method and input. To connect one, give it `set up https://fous.com/SKILL.md`. ## Ask your agent - Pull up the full text of the TechCrunch story about AMD buying World Labs for $8.2 billion, including the author and publish date. - Can you read this article for me and tell me its section and tags: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/some-startup-raises-series-b/ - I need the word count and main image of the latest TechCrunch piece on electric vehicle battery startups. - Get the latest public updates from TechCrunch's live blog on the recent tech layoffs coverage, with timestamps. - Give me the headline, summary, and updated time for a TechCrunch article about quantum computing funding rounds from this week. ## Input schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "article" ], "properties": { "article": { "type": "string", "description": "The TechCrunch article link or headline, for example: AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion." } }, "additionalProperties": false } ``` ## Output schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "headline", "summary", "authors", "published_at", "updated_at", "section", "tags", "main_image_url", "main_image_caption", "paragraphs", "full_text_available", "word_count", "article_url", "article_id" ], "properties": { "tags": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Article topic tags." }, "authors": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" }, "description": "The listed authors." }, "section": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "The article section." }, "summary": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "The summary or standfirst, if given." }, "headline": { "type": "string", "description": "The article headline." }, "article_id": { "type": [ "integer", "null" ], "description": "TechCrunch article ID.", "x-fous-developer": true }, "paragraphs": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Full article text or latest live-blog entries as plain-text paragraphs." }, "updated_at": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Last update time in ISO 8601 with offset." }, "word_count": { "type": "integer", "description": "Number of words in the returned paragraphs." }, "article_url": { "type": "string", "description": "Article page link." }, "published_at": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Publication time in ISO 8601 with offset." }, "main_image_url": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Main image link." }, "main_image_caption": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "The main image caption." }, "full_text_available": { "type": "boolean", "description": "Whether text was available." } }, "additionalProperties": false } ``` ## See more - [TechCrunch API: Search articles](https://fous.com/methods/techcrunch.com/search-news.md): Searches TechCrunch articles by keyword, with an optional publication date range and newest or most relevant order. - [TechCrunch API: List headlines](https://fous.com/methods/techcrunch.com/list-headlines.md): Lists the latest TechCrunch story headlines in a section, in page order. 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Live blogs return the latest entries shown on the page; some older articles may be unavailable. - [BBC News API: Read article](https://fous.com/methods/bbc.com/read-article.md): Reads the text and details of a BBC News article from its link or headline. Live coverage pages return the latest entries available. - [Yahoo API: Read article](https://fous.com/methods/yahoo.com/read-article.md): Reads a public Yahoo News article from its link or headline and returns its text and details. Headline matching uses Yahoo News search results. - [NPR API: Read article](https://fous.com/methods/npr.org/read-article.md): Reads an NPR article by its link or headline and returns its text and publication details. For live blogs, returns the displayed updates. - [All TechCrunch methods](https://fous.com/methods/techcrunch.com.md)