Obtaining total article counts for each month

[Jan Snajder]

Hi everyone,

Is there an API endpoint I could use to obtain the total number of articles per month? I guess I could use /search with a generic keyword (one that passes the stopword list, though), but this seems very awkward, especially since I don't need the content itself, only the counts.

Cheers,

Jan

[Guardian Open Platform API Forum]

Hello,

We don't provide an aggregation that will do this in a single query. You'll need to run a query like this one:

https://content.guardianapis.com/search?from-date=2026-04-01&to-date=2026-04-30&page-size=0&api-key=YOURKEY

for every month that you're interested in. You'll get a response that includes a "total' field, that value is what you're looking for.

Hope this helps,

The Open Platform team

[Jan Snajder]

Great, thanks so much!

Cheers,

Jan