

Header
x-api-key required
string
This parameter defines the Piloterr private key to use for authentification.
Parameters
query
string
Full visir.is article URL: /g/{id}/{slug} for written articles or /k/{uuid} for video clips.
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Get Real-Time Vísir Data via API, No Infrastructure Required
The Piloterr Vísir News API extracts the full text and metadata of a single visir.is article. Pass the canonical URL (either the `/g/{id}/{slug}` written-article pattern or the `/k/{uuid}` video-clip pattern) and Piloterr fetches the page through its anti-bot bypass, then maps the headline, kicker, lead, body (as plain text and cleaned HTML), word count, section, subsection, tags, content type (article, opinion, video, live-blog, gallery), byline, ISO 8601 timestamps, all images with captions and credits, embedded videos, the related-articles list, and Vísir topic-page links into a typed JSON object. Each request hits visir.is live, so newsroom updates (corrections, added quotes, updated final scores in match reports) appear in the next call.
Application Scenarios for the Vísir News API
- Icelandic NLP corpus: Build a full-text Icelandic news corpus from visir.is to power downstream NLP tasks: named-entity recognition on Icelandic political figures, automated translation of Innherji business analysis, and topic clustering across the Innlent and Erlent sections.
- Live football data: Enrich a fantasy football product with Vísir Enski boltinn match reports, extracting goal scorers, manager quotes, and lineup changes within minutes of each Premier League whistle.
- Editorial benchmarking: Refresh an editorial benchmarking dashboard that compares Vísir Innlent and mbl.is Innlent coverage of the same event, side by side, with word count, byline, and publish timestamps for editorial-velocity analysis.
- Music discovery feed: Power an Icelandic-music discovery feed by pulling every Vísir Tónlist article on a tracked artist, then surfacing release dates, tour announcements, and award news to subscribers.
- Media-bias research: Drive a media-bias research project that tags every Vísir Skoðun opinion piece by author, topic, and stance, building a quantitative map of who writes what on Icelandic public policy.
Why Use Piloterr Instead of Building Your Own Scraper
- No anti-bot management: Vísir sits behind anti-bot protection that blocks automated requests. Piloterr handles the bypass transparently on every call.
- Real-time data: Every call returns live data fetched from Vísir at the moment of the request, not a cached snapshot.
- Structured JSON: No HTML parsing, no fragile selectors. The response schema is stable, typed, and documented.
- No infrastructure costs: No proxy pool to buy, no headless browser cluster to maintain. Pay only for successful requests.
One Piloterr subscription gives access to the full public API catalog, including the Vísir News endpoint. See the API documentation for authentication and parameters.
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3 credits = WebUnlocker API request
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3 credits = WebUnlocker API request
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3 credits = WebUnlocker API request
2 credits = JS rendering API request
3 credits = WebUnlocker API request
2 credits = JS rendering API request
3 credits = WebUnlocker API request
2 credits = JS rendering API request
3 credits = WebUnlocker API request
2 credits = JS rendering API request
3 credits = WebUnlocker API request
2 credits = JS rendering API request
3 credits = WebUnlocker API request
2 credits = JS rendering API request
3 credits = WebUnlocker API request
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