7NEWS Australia API endpoint
Returns the 100 most recent 7NEWS Australia stories for one topic. `section` is required and takes a topic slug such as `news-sydney`, `sport-afl` or `business-property`, which is the site path with slashes replaced by hyphens. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time, author when credited, and lead image.
/sevennewsau/headlinesQuery parameter: section is required and must be one of 7you, 7you-beauty, 7you-books, 7you-fashion, 7you-health-fitness, 7you-home, 7you-tech, 7you-travel, business, business-economy, business-energy, business-property, business-retail, entertainment, entertainment-australian-idol, entertainment-celebrity, entertainment-farmer-wants-a-wife, entertainment-home-and-away, entertainment-movies, entertainment-music, entertainment-my-kitchen-rules, entertainment-the-voice-australia, entertainment-tv, lifestyle, lifestyle-fashion, lifestyle-food, lifestyle-health-wellbeing, lifestyle-parenting, lifestyle-personal-finance, lifestyle-pets, lifestyle-real-estate, lifestyle-recipes, lifestyle-relationships, lifestyle-shopping, lifestyle-sponsored, motoring, news, news-act, news-adelaide, news-asia, news-australia, news-brisbane, news-canberra, news-conflict, news-crime, news-darwin, news-disaster-and-emergency, news-education, news-europe, news-gold-coast, news-hobart, news-israel, news-melbourne, news-middle-east, news-missing-person, news-new-zealand, news-newcastle, news-nsw, news-nsw-police, news-nt, news-perth, news-protest, news-qld, news-russia, news-sa, news-sydney, news-ukraine, news-united-states, news-vic, news-wa, news-weather, news-world, opinion, politics, politics-federal-politics, politics-state-politics, sport, sport-afl, sport-aflw, sport-baseball, sport-basketball, sport-boxing, sport-cricket, sport-cycling, sport-f1, sport-golf, sport-horse-racing, sport-mixed-martial-arts, sport-motorsport, sport-netball, sport-nfl, sport-olympics, sport-rugby-league, sport-rugby-union, sport-soccer, sport-supercars, sport-tennis, sport-ufc, spotlight, sunrise, sunrise-cooking, sunrise-cooking-with-coles, sunrise-entertainment, technology, technology-gaming, the-morning-show, travel, travel-jetstar, travel-qantas. Use sevennewsau-sections to list them with display names and feed URLs. Returns the 100 most recent stories tagged with that topic. Invalid values return a 400 error; a topic that is briefly unavailable returns a 503 error (it can time out once and succeed on the next request).
| Field | Filled in, of 100 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 100 | median 79 characters |
| url | 100 | 7news.com.au |
| summary | 100 | median 93 characters |
| published_at | 100 | 2026-09-24 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 100 | |
| image_url | 99 | images.7news.com.au |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | 7NEWS topic slug (the site path with slashes replaced by hyphens) Allowed values: 7you, 7you-beauty, 7you-books, 7you-fashion, 7you-health-fitness, 7you-home, 7you-tech, 7you-travel, business, business-economy, business-energy, business-property, business-retail, entertainment, entertainment-australian-idol, entertainment-celebrity, entertainment-farmer-wants-a-wife, entertainment-home-and-away, entertainment-movies, entertainment-music, entertainment-my-kitchen-rules, entertainment-the-voice-australia, entertainment-tv, lifestyle, lifestyle-fashion, lifestyle-food, lifestyle-health-wellbeing, lifestyle-parenting, lifestyle-personal-finance, lifestyle-pets, lifestyle-real-estate, lifestyle-recipes, lifestyle-relationships, lifestyle-shopping, lifestyle-sponsored, motoring, news, news-act, news-adelaide, news-asia, news-australia, news-brisbane, news-canberra, news-conflict, news-crime, news-darwin, news-disaster-and-emergency, news-education, news-europe, news-gold-coast, news-hobart, news-israel, news-melbourne, news-middle-east, news-missing-person, news-new-zealand, news-newcastle, news-nsw, news-nsw-police, news-nt, news-perth, news-protest, news-qld, news-russia, news-sa, news-sydney, news-ukraine, news-united-states, news-vic, news-wa, news-weather, news-world, opinion, politics, politics-federal-politics, politics-state-politics, sport, sport-afl, sport-aflw, sport-baseball, sport-basketball, sport-boxing, sport-cricket, sport-cycling, sport-f1, sport-golf, sport-horse-racing, sport-mixed-martial-arts, sport-motorsport, sport-netball, sport-nfl, sport-olympics, sport-rugby-league, sport-rugby-union, sport-soccer, sport-supercars, sport-tennis, sport-ufc, spotlight, sunrise, sunrise-cooking, sunrise-cooking-with-coles, sunrise-entertainment, technology, technology-gaming, the-morning-show, travel, travel-jetstar, travel-qantas. | 7you | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sevennewsau/headlines?section=7you" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "news-world",
"items": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://7news.com.au/news/world/example-story-c-22923759",
"summary": "Example summary.",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T22:27:43Z",
"author": "Example Author"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.HeadlinesResponse | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under 7NEWS Australia top stories API. | |||
| data.section | string | No |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sevennewsau/headlines?section=7you" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"