List a VSCO user's journal

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List a VSCO user's journal articles with title, subtitle, author, dates, categories, cover image and the article body as ordered text, image and video blocks.

GET/v1/vsco/user-journalsx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

usernamestringrequiredquery

VSCO username (1 to 50 letters, digits, dots, underscores or hyphens) or a vsco.co profile URL such as https://vsco.co/example-photographer/gallery.

min 1 chars · max 512 chars

Examplevsco

pagestringquery

Journal page, 1 to 1,000; defaults to 1.

Example1

limitstringquery

Articles per page, 1 to 10; default 10.

Example5

Response fields

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage.

statusenum

success or partial for usable data; failed or challenged for a failure.

one of: success, partial

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

sourceUrlstring

Public vsco.co page the data describes.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Returned-page coverage and mapping warnings.

coverage.sourcestring

VSCO's public web API.

coverage.completeboolean

Whether every supported field on this page was mapped without a reported omission.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Named warnings: unknown_media_type, unknown_block_type, invalid_item, record_limit, block_limit, total_unavailable (no collection or search count) or pagination_unavailable (no next-page signal or cursor).

Retrieval attempt, source byte and timing measurements.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Upstream request attempts, including the token page read and any retry.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Decoded source bytes read during this request.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Elapsed operation time in milliseconds.

≥ 0

usernamestring

VSCO username (1 to 50 letters, digits, dots, underscores or hyphens) or a vsco.co profile URL such as https://vsco.co/example-photographer/gallery.

Journal articles, newest first.

up to 10 items

articles.idstring

Always included.

articles.titlestringnullable

Always included.

articles.subtitlestringnullable

Always included.

articles.slugstring

Always included.

articles.permalinkstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

articles.authorstringnullable

Always included.

articles.publishedAtstringnullable

Always included.

articles.updatedAtstringnullable

Always included.

up to 50 items

articles.categories.textstring

Always included.

articles.categories.slugstring

Always included.

articles.coverImage.urlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

articles.coverImage.widthintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

articles.coverImage.heightintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

Always included.

up to 300 items

articles.blocks.typestring

Always included.

articles.blocks.textstringnullable

Always included.

up to 50 items

articles.blocks.links.urlstring

Always included.

articles.blocks.links.textstring

Always included.

up to 50 items

articles.blocks.images.idstringnullable

Always included.

articles.blocks.images.urlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

articles.blocks.images.widthintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

articles.blocks.images.heightintegernullable

Always included.

≥ 0

Always included.

articles.blocks.video.providerstringnullable

Always included.

articles.blocks.video.idstringnullable

Always included.

articles.blocks.video.urlstringnullable

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

pageinteger

Journal page, 1 to 1,000; defaults to 1.

1 – 1000

hasMoreboolean

Whether a later page exists.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with named media-type, block-type, invalid-item, record-limit, total or pagination warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed, unsafe or unsupported parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
404	`not_found`	The requested VSCO profile or image was not found.
422	`restricted_page`	VSCO refused anonymous access to the requested resource.
422	`unsupported_page`	The VSCO response structure or identity could not be mapped.
502	`upstream_challenged`	VSCO challenged retrieval.
502	`upstream_rate_limited`	VSCO rate-limited retrieval.
502	`upstream_error`	Source retrieval did not complete.
502	`response_too_large`	Decoded source bytes exceeded the request limit.
502	`unsafe_redirect`	VSCO answered with a redirect, which is never followed.
502	`request_limit`	The upstream request budget was exhausted.
503	`busy`	Worker request or queue capacity was exceeded.
504	`timeout`	The operation deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/user-journals?username=vsco&page=1&limit=5" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/user-journals?username=vsco&page=1&limit=5",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/user-journals?username=vsco&page=1&limit=5",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`VSCO request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/user-journals",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "username": "vsco",
        "page": "1",
        "limit": "5"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/user-journals?username=vsco&page=1&limit=5", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/vsco/user-journals?username=vsco&page=1&limit=5"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://vsco.co/vsco/journal",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 3,
    "responseBytes": 9000,
    "durationMs": 420
  },
  "username": "vsco",
  "articles": [
    {
      "id": "65a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a10",
      "title": "Five photographers to follow this month",
      "subtitle": "New work from the community.",
      "slug": "five-photographers-to-follow",
      "permalink": "https://vsco.co/vsco/journal/five-photographers-to-follow",
      "author": "VSCO",
      "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T17:00:00.000Z",
      "updatedAt": "2026-11-03T18:10:00.000Z",
      "categories": [
        {
          "text": "Community",
          "slug": "community"
        }
      ],
      "coverImage": {
        "url": "https://im.vsco.co/aws-us-west-2/000000/100000/65a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a11/cover.jpg",
        "width": 2200,
        "height": 1236
      },
      "blocks": [
        {
          "type": "headline",
          "text": "Meet the photographers",
          "links": [],
          "images": [],
          "video": null
        },
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": "We're sharing work from five photographers.",
          "links": [
            {
              "url": "https://www.example.com/",
              "text": "five photographers"
            }
          ],
          "images": [],
          "video": null
        },
        {
          "type": "image",
          "text": null,
          "links": [],
          "images": [
            {
              "id": "65a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a12",
              "url": "https://im.vsco.co/aws-us-west-2/000000/100000/65a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a12/photo.jpg",
              "width": 2000,
              "height": 1333
            }
          ],
          "video": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "page": 1,
  "hasMore": true
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed, unsafe or unsupported parameters.

{
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}