Crosby News News API
The News API from Crosby News — 1 operation(s) for news.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: crosbynews.com News API
version: 1.7.0
description: 'Crosby, Texas community data: current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecast, active alerts, the EPA UV index, and a measured air-quality index (EPA/AirNow monitors, with an Open-Meteo modeled fallback) from the U.S. National Weather Service, EPA/AirNow, and Open-Meteo; river/bayou flood levels; the Atlantic tropical outlook; the Houston Health Department''s measured daily pollen and mold count; the Harris County burn-ban status from the Texas A&M Forest Service; road incidents and lane closures from Houston TranStar; recent local news headlines; and the Crosby ISD school calendar. Public, no authentication.'
contact:
url: https://crosbynews.com/
license:
name: Public domain (NWS source data)
url: https://www.weather.gov/disclaimer
servers:
- url: https://crosbynews.com
security: []
tags:
- name: News
paths:
/api/news:
get:
operationId: getNews
summary: Recent local news headlines for Crosby, TX
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/IfNoneMatch'
responses:
'200':
description: Curated headline list (community items first on the site; incidents flagged by category)
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/News'
'304':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotModified'
'502':
description: News cache unavailable
tags:
- News
components:
responses:
NotModified:
description: Not Modified — the caller's If-None-Match matches the current snapshot, so no body is sent. The ETag is derived from the cache's refresh stamp, so it changes exactly when the payload would.
schemas:
NewsItem:
type: object
properties:
title:
type: string
link:
type: string
format: uri
source:
type:
- string
- 'null'
published:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: date-time
category:
type: string
enum:
- community
- incident
News:
type: object
properties:
location:
type: string
source:
type: string
updated:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: date-time
items:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NewsItem'
parameters:
IfNoneMatch:
name: If-None-Match
in: header
required: false
description: A previously returned weak ETag. When it still matches the cached snapshot, the endpoint answers 304 with no body — the cheap way to poll.
schema:
type: string