Brisbane Times API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /brisbanetimes/sections

Cost

1 credit/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/brisbanetimes/sections" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use Brisbane Times endpoints

Brisbane Times is Nine Publishing’s digital-only Queensland masthead for Brisbane and state reporting, with coverage spanning politics, business, sport, culture, Good Food, lifestyle, and travel. A live /brisbanetimes/sections response on 2026-10-14 contained 104 accepted headline slugs; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Begin with /sections and pass only its returned slugs to /headlines; the 104 accepted paths include local, national, and specialist desks, so keep the selected slug with each result. Use /news for broad 20-item RSS discovery, then follow canonical story URLs to /article when body access matters. The publisher’s media kit frames this service around readers in Queensland’s capital, while its brand guide describes a local Queensland voice. The RSS response contains metadata and summaries but no encoded story body. Anonymous article extraction returns only the paragraphs the page served and preserves is_accessible_for_free, paywalled, and is_truncated; a paywall flag can coexist with returned paragraphs, so do not claim complete access. /author requires a canonical /by/<name>-<id> profile URL, not a general byline search; the sampled profile showed 10 recent story cards. The headlines route requires a section and has no pagination parameter. Use the endpoint cards for this integration's accepted inputs.

1. Step 1

   Refresh the accepted slug list before each schedule

   A live /brisbanetimes/sections response on 2026-10-14 contained 104 accepted headline slugs; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Begin with /sections and pass only its returned slugs to /headlines; the 104 accepted paths include local, national, and specialist desks, so keep the selected slug with each result. Use /news for broad 20-item RSS discovery, then follow canonical story URLs to /article when body access matters. The publisher’s media kit frames this service around readers in Queensland’s capital, while its brand guide describes a local Queensland voice.

2. Step 2

   Treat the RSS feed as 20-item summaries, not stories

   Nine presents Brisbane Times as a Queensland masthead with local Brisbane reporting and desks spanning politics, business, sport, culture, Good Food, lifestyle, and Traveller. Use /sections to get the current 104 accepted headline slugs before scheduling /headlines; retain the chosen slug because the endpoint does not expose a page cursor. The broad RSS route is a 20-item discovery feed with summaries, not story bodies. For article follow-up, pass a canonical www.brisbanetimes.com.au story URL and preserve is_accessible_for_free, paywalled, and is_truncated with any paragraphs returned. The author route accepts a /by/<name>-<id> profile URL, not a free-text byline search; a sampled profile exposed 10 recent story cards.

3. Step 3

   Keep the chosen slug with each result

   Nine presents Brisbane Times as a Queensland masthead with local Brisbane reporting and desks spanning politics, business, sport, culture, Good Food, lifestyle, and Traveller. Use /sections to get the current 104 accepted headline slugs before scheduling /headlines; retain the chosen slug because the endpoint does not expose a page cursor. The broad RSS route is a 20-item discovery feed with summaries, not story bodies. For article follow-up, pass a canonical www.brisbanetimes.com.au story URL and preserve is_accessible_for_free, paywalled, and is_truncated with any paragraphs returned. The author route accepts a /by/<name>-<id> profile URL, not a free-text byline search; a sampled profile exposed 10 recent story cards. Pass only a value returned by /brisbanetimes/sections and accepted by /brisbanetimes/headlines; preserve the selected desk with its results.

4. Step 4

   Preserve the free, paywalled and truncated flags

   The RSS response contains metadata and summaries but no encoded story body. Anonymous article extraction returns only the paragraphs the page served and preserves is_accessible_for_free, paywalled, and is_truncated; a paywall flag can coexist with returned paragraphs, so do not claim complete access. /author requires a canonical /by/<name>-<id> profile URL, not a general byline search; the sampled profile showed 10 recent story cards. The headlines route requires a section and has no pagination parameter. Keep teaser, truncation, premium, or access fields beside the canonical URL so downstream users can see what the publisher actually returned.

5. Step 5

   Resolve contributors from /by/ profile URLs

   Begin with /sections and pass only its returned slugs to /headlines; the 104 accepted paths include local, national, and specialist desks, so keep the selected slug with each result. Use /news for broad 20-item RSS discovery, then follow canonical story URLs to /article when body access matters. The publisher’s media kit frames this service around readers in Queensland’s capital, while its brand guide describes a local Queensland voice. The RSS response contains metadata and summaries but no encoded story body. Anonymous article extraction returns only the paragraphs the page served and preserves is_accessible_for_free, paywalled, and is_truncated; a paywall flag can coexist with returned paragraphs, so do not claim complete access. /author requires a canonical /by/<name>-<id> profile URL, not a general byline search; the sampled profile showed 10 recent story cards. The headlines route requires a section and has no pagination parameter.

Other Media & Streaming APIs