Payload Space APIpayloadspace.com ↗
Access space industry articles, funding rounds, company mentions, events, webinars, and podcasts from Payload Space via 16 structured API endpoints.
What is the Payload Space API?
The Payload Space API exposes 16 endpoints covering space industry news articles, company mentions, funding rounds, contract awards, events, webinars, and podcast episodes from payloadspace.com. Endpoints like get_article_detail return full article content alongside extracted company mentions, while get_funding_rounds and get_contract_awards surface investment and procurement news directly. Each article object includes fields such as id, title, slug, url, date, summary, content, categories, and tags.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/19734a97-2732-4c18-b9bf-cf5725596d26/get_latest_articles?limit=3' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Typed, relational, agent-ready
A generated client with real types, enums, and the links between objects — the structure a flat JSON response can't carry. Autocompletes in your editor and reads cleanly to coding agents.
- Fully typed · autocompletes
- Objects link to objects
- Typed errors & pagination
Typed Python client. Set up the SDK in your uv project, then pull this API’s typed client:
uv add parse-sdk uv run parse init uv run parse add --marketplace payloadspace-com-api
uv run parse add --marketplace pulls a pinned snapshot of this canonical API — it won’t change underneath you. To customize it, subscribe and swap to your own copy.
"""Walkthrough: Payload Space SDK — space industry intelligence, bounded and re-runnable."""
from parse_apis.payload_space_api import PayloadSpace, Category, ArticleNotFound
client = PayloadSpace()
# List the latest articles — limit= caps total items fetched.
for article in client.articles.list(limit=3):
print(article.title, article.date)
# Search by keyword, take the first result, and drill into its companies.
article = client.articles.search(query="funding", limit=1).first()
if article:
for company in article.companies.list(limit=5):
print(company.name, company.industry)
# Browse articles by category using the Category enum.
for art in client.articles.by_category(category=Category.MILITARY, limit=3):
print(art.title, art.slug)
# Fetch a single article by slug — typed error catch for missing articles.
try:
detail = client.articles.get(slug="symphony-space-unveils-adagio-xl-odc-sat")
print(detail.title, detail.author_id)
except ArticleNotFound as exc:
print(f"Article not found: {exc.slug}")
# Aggregate company mentions across recent articles.
for company in client.companies.all_mentioned(limit=5):
print(company.name, company.industry, company.description[:60])
# Browse webinars and podcasts.
webinar = client.webinars.list(limit=1).first()
if webinar:
print(webinar.title, webinar.date)
podcast = client.podcasts.list(limit=1).first()
if podcast:
print(podcast.title, podcast.url)
print("exercised: articles.list / articles.search / articles.by_category / articles.get / article.companies.list / companies.all_mentioned / webinars.list / podcasts.list")
Fetch the most recent articles from Payload Space, ordered by publication date descending. Returns full article content including HTML markup in content and summary fields. Categories and tags are returned as integer IDs referencing internal WordPress taxonomy.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Maximum number of articles to return (1-100). |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"items": "array of article objects with id, title, slug, url, date, summary, content, author_id, categories, and tags"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"items": [
{
"id": 30272,
"url": "https://payloadspace.com/symphony-space-unveils-adagio-xl-odc-sat/",
"date": "2026-06-10T09:00:00",
"slug": "symphony-space-unveils-adagio-xl-odc-sat",
"tags": [],
"title": "Symphony Space Unveils Adagio-XL ODC Sat",
"content": "<p>Content</p>",
"summary": "<p>With Adagio-XL, Symphony Space is getting into the orbital data center game.</p>\n",
"author_id": 52,
"categories": [
26,
4
]
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the Payload Space API
Article Retrieval and Search
The get_latest_articles and get_articles_by_category endpoints both accept an optional limit parameter (1–100) and return arrays of article objects containing id, title, slug, url, date, summary, content, author_id, categories, and tags. Category slugs include business, launch, vc-pe, military, europe, and polaris. The search_articles endpoint accepts a query string and returns matching articles ordered by relevance, using the same response shape. For a single article, get_article_detail takes a slug and adds a companies_mentioned array to the standard article fields.
Company Mention Extraction
Three endpoints aggregate company data derived from article content. extract_companies_from_article takes a single article slug and returns company objects each containing name, industry (inferred from article category), and description (a contextual excerpt). get_all_companies_mentioned aggregates unique company mentions across the 20 most recent articles. get_companies_from_category scopes the same aggregation to a specific category slug. Note that company extraction is heuristic — results reflect entities named in article text rather than a curated company database.
Category-Specific News Feeds
Dedicated endpoints provide pre-filtered article feeds: get_funding_rounds covers VC/PE investment news, get_launch_news covers rocket launches and launch vehicle developments, get_europe_space_news covers European space industry, get_military_space_news covers defense and national security topics, and get_polaris_news covers space policy and regulation. get_contract_awards returns articles matching the keyword contract across all categories. Each accepts an optional limit parameter and returns the same article object shape.
Events, Webinars, and Podcasts
get_events and get_webinars return space industry events and Payload Space webinars respectively, each as arrays of objects with id, title, slug, url, date, summary, content, author_id, categories, and tags. get_podcasts surfaces episodes from the Valley of Depth series in the same format, ordered by date descending. These three endpoints accept an optional limit parameter.
The Payload Space API is a managed, monitored endpoint for payloadspace.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when payloadspace.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official payloadspace.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
Will this API break when the source site changes?+
Is this an official API from the source site?+
Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
What happens if I call an endpoint that has an issue?+
- Monitor space industry funding activity by polling
get_funding_roundsfor new VC/PE articles and extracting company names and deal context. - Build a contract-award tracker using
get_contract_awardsto surface procurement news for defense and commercial space companies. - Aggregate company mentions across launch news using
get_companies_from_categorywith thelaunchslug to identify frequently covered launch providers. - Track European space industry developments by consuming
get_europe_space_newsarticles with fullcontentandtagsfields. - Populate an event calendar by fetching
get_eventsandget_webinarsdata includingdate,title, andurlfields. - Index full article content for search or summarization pipelines using
get_article_detailto retrieve thecontentandcompanies_mentionedfields per slug. - Follow space policy and regulatory news via
get_polaris_newsfor articles tagged under thepolariscategory.
| 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 | 100 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 Payload Space have an official developer API?+
What does `get_article_detail` return that the list endpoints do not?+
get_article_detail returns the same base fields as list endpoints (id, title, slug, url, date, summary, content, author_id, categories, tags) and adds a companies_mentioned array. Each entry in that array contains name, industry, and description (a contextual excerpt from the article). The list endpoints do not include company extraction.How reliable is the company mention extraction across endpoints?+
get_all_companies_mentioned, the aggregation covers only the 20 most recent articles, not the full article archive.Can I retrieve articles by a specific author or filter by a specific date range?+
get_articles_by_category) or keyword (search_articles) and returns results ordered by publication date descending; there are no author or date-range parameters. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add an author-filter or date-range endpoint.Does the API include subscriber-only or paywalled article content from Payload Space?+
content field returns text accessible without a subscription. Payload Space offers premium content to paying subscribers; that gated content is not exposed through this API. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it if you have credentials that grant access to additional content.