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Access technical articles, textbook volumes, circuit diagrams, engineering tools, and forum threads from allaboutcircuits.com via a structured REST API.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/1a9c11c4-f2c1-4526-818c-150dfe8f284e/get_latest_articles?offset=0' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Retrieve the latest articles with pagination support. Returns approximately 19 articles per page from the All About Circuits latest articles listing.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| offset | integer | Pagination offset. Increment by 20 for each page (e.g., 0, 20, 40). |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"offset": "integer indicating the current pagination offset",
"articles": "array of article objects with title, url, and excerpt"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"offset": 0,
"articles": [
{
"url": "https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/microchip-unveils-plug-in-timing-module-ai-burdened-data-centers/",
"title": "Microchip Unveils Plug-In Timing Module for AI-Burdened Data Centers",
"excerpt": "The new plug-in module is designed to meet the timing and synchronization requirements of distributed computing, AI data…"
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the allaboutcircuits.com API
The All About Circuits API exposes 8 endpoints covering electronics education content from allaboutcircuits.com, including technical articles, textbook volumes, engineering calculators, and community forum threads. The get_article_detail endpoint returns full body text, circuit schematic images with alt text, and any other embedded images for a given article or textbook page URL. Category-filtered browsing, site-wide search, and paginated article listings are also available.
Articles and Categories
The get_latest_articles and get_articles_by_category endpoints return paginated lists of approximately 19 articles per page, each with title, url, and excerpt fields. Pagination is controlled by an offset parameter incremented by 20. To filter by topic, first call get_article_categories to retrieve available name and slug pairs — such as analog, power, embedded, or sensors — then pass the desired slug to get_articles_by_category. The category response echoes the requested slug in a category field alongside the article array.
Article Detail and Textbooks
get_article_detail accepts any full article or textbook page URL and returns the title, body_text, an images array (each with url and alt), and a separate schematics array for circuit diagrams. The distinction between general images and schematics lets you extract circuit-specific visuals without filtering manually. get_textbook_volumes lists all available textbook volumes with their title, slug, and url, making it straightforward to enumerate and then fetch individual chapters via get_article_detail.
Tools, Forums, and Search
get_tools_list returns engineering calculators and tools with name, url, and description fields. get_forum_threads returns recent community threads as an array of title and url pairs — no body text or replies are included at the list level. search_articles accepts a query string and returns results across articles, textbooks, tools, and forum threads, each with title, url, and excerpt fields, along with the echoed query value.
- Build a topic-specific electronics article feed filtered by category slug (e.g., 'embedded' or 'sensors') using get_articles_by_category
- Extract circuit schematic images from technical articles by parsing the schematics array returned by get_article_detail
- Index the full text of All About Circuits textbook volumes for offline reading or search by combining get_textbook_volumes with get_article_detail
- Aggregate recent community discussions for an electronics dashboard using the title and url fields from get_forum_threads
- Enumerate available engineering calculators and link to them in a curated tool directory using get_tools_list
- Power a site search feature over electronics content by passing user queries to search_articles and surfacing results across articles, textbooks, and tools
- Monitor new content across all categories by paginating get_latest_articles with incrementing offset values
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does All About Circuits have an official developer API?+
What does get_article_detail return, and does it include schematics separately from other images?+
schematics array specifically for circuit diagram images (each with url and alt) alongside a separate images array for other embedded images, plus the full body_text and title. This means you can target circuit diagrams directly without filtering a mixed image list.Does get_forum_threads return thread content, replies, or post counts?+
title and url fields only — no thread body, replies, reply counts, or author data are included in the list response. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add a forum thread detail endpoint that fetches that additional data.Is there an endpoint for individual textbook chapters or sections?+
get_textbook_volumes lists volumes with title, slug, and URL, but chapter-level navigation is not a dedicated endpoint. Individual chapter pages can be fetched by passing their URLs to get_article_detail. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add a chapter-listing endpoint for a given volume slug.How does pagination work, and is there a total result count available?+
offset parameter incremented by 20 for each subsequent page (e.g., 0, 20, 40). Each response returns the current offset and approximately 19 articles. There is no total result count or page count field in the response, so you continue paginating until a page returns fewer than the expected article count.