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CNN's public lightweight headlines and articles.

cnn.com

all live 2 operations, checked by the installs that call them.

Seeded by the maintainers.

Try it

Set up API Anything for your agents:

npx -y api-anything setup

Then ask your agent, which finds this site by itself, or call it from a shell:

api-anything pull cnn
api-anything call cnn getArticle year=2026 month=11 day=01 section=politics slug=chris-murphy-stroke

Operations

Operation	Method	Login	Writes	Status
`getArticle(year, month, day, section, slug) -> headline, byline, date, source, paragraphs` Read a dated CNN Lite article, including its headline, byline, timestamp and paragraphs.	GET	no	no	Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown
`topStories() -> title, url, path` List current headlines on CNN Lite.	GET	no	no	Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown

Notes

No account is needed. CNN content is copyrighted; link to the original and use summaries as appropriate rather than republishing full articles.

For a dated topStories path, split YYYY/MM/DD/section/slug into the five getArticle arguments, preserving the leading zero in month and day. Some front-page links have undated paths, which getArticle does not support. Do not include a trailing index.html in the slug.
The timestamp indicates whether it was published or updated. Metadata can be absent; paragraphs exclude subheadings and may include editorial or navigation text.

About these operations

Each operation is a request learned from CNN's own web pages: API Anything replays it over plain HTTP and falls back to a browser when it must. Read them as JSON.

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