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Brisbane Times API endpoint
Brisbane Times section headlines API
Returns current story cards from one observed Brisbane Times server-rendered section or populated topic page. `section` must be one of the exact slugs from `/brisbanetimes/sections`; unsupported and unresolved linkless paths are rejected before an upstream request. Off-brand story links on Traveller are omitted.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestBrisbane Timespublicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
Brisbane Times/brisbanetimes/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /brisbanetimes/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Brisbane Times
- Execution
- Managed browser rendering where the target needs it
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: section is required and must be one of the 104 exact slugs returned by brisbanetimes-sections: national/queensland, politics, business, world, goodfood, lifestyle, traveller, sport, brisbane-news, politics/federal, politics/queensland, politics/nsw, politics/victoria, politics/western-australia, business/companies, business/markets, business/bullsnbears, business/the-economy, business/banking-and-finance, business/small-business, business/workplace, world/north-america, world/europe, world/asia, world/middle-east, world/south-america, world/africa, national, national/nsw, national/victoria, national/western-australia, opinion, property, property/news, property/living, sport/nrl, sport/rugby-union, sport/afl, sport/cricket, sport/soccer, sport/racing, sport/tennis, sport/netball, sport/basketball, sport/motorsport, sport/golf, sport/nfl, sport/athletics, sport/swimming, sport/boxing, goodfood/recipes, goodfood/tips-and-advice, goodfood/brisbane-eating-out, goodfood/drinks, culture, culture/movies, culture/tv-and-radio, culture/music, culture/celebrity, culture/books, culture/comedy, culture/dance, culture/musicals, culture/opera, culture/theatre, culture/art-and-design, culture/live-reviews, lifestyle/health-and-wellness, lifestyle/fashion, lifestyle/life-and-relationships, lifestyle/beauty, traveller/inspiration/destination-guides, traveller/inspiration, traveller/reviews-and-advice, traveller/travel-news, good-weekend, sunday-life, money, money/super-and-retirement, money/investing, money/banking, money/borrowing, money/saving, money/tax, money/planning-and-budgeting, education, healthcare, environment, environment/conservation, environment/climate-change, environment/sustainability, environment/weather, technology, technology/video-games, australia-higher-education, topic/media-and-marketing-5z7, topic/auctions-1nq1, topic/financing-1nq2, topic/style-luxury-1nij, topic/horoscopes-5yc, topic/home-technology-hqq, topic/phones-5zt, topic/gadgets-hqp, topic/explainers-1lz9. Any other value is rejected before Brisbane Times is contacted.
The endpoint returns current article-card metadata for the section. Topic hubs and populated Good Food pages are included. The /traveller page contains 63 Brisbane Times article links and three SMH links; off-brand links are filtered instead of being rewritten to guessed Brisbane URLs.
Workflow check
Start from the checked request: GET /brisbanetimes/headlines?section=brisbane-news. Live check on 2026-10-14: 35 items returned. Fields present in every checked item: title, url, author. Observed field variation: summary was populated in 8 of 35; image_url was populated in 31 of 35; published_at was populated in 4 of 35.
Resolve a returned canonical story URL with Get Brisbane Times article content.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /brisbanetimes/headlines?section=brisbane-news
- Items in items
- 35
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 3
- Fields empty in some or all items
- 3
| Field | Filled in, of 35 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 35 | median 69 characters |
| url | 35 | brisbanetimes.com.au |
| summary | 8 | median 113 characters |
| author | 35 | |
| image_url | 31 | static.ffx.io |
| published_at | 4 | 2026-10-14 |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Section or topic slug from /brisbanetimes/sections Allowed values: national/queensland, politics, business, world, goodfood, lifestyle, traveller, sport, brisbane-news, politics/federal, politics/queensland, politics/nsw, politics/victoria, politics/western-australia, business/companies, business/markets, business/bullsnbears, business/the-economy, business/banking-and-finance, business/small-business, business/workplace, world/north-america, world/europe, world/asia, world/middle-east, world/south-america, world/africa, national, national/nsw, national/victoria, national/western-australia, opinion, property, property/news, property/living, sport/nrl, sport/rugby-union, sport/afl, sport/cricket, sport/soccer, sport/racing, sport/tennis, sport/netball, sport/basketball, sport/motorsport, sport/golf, sport/nfl, sport/athletics, sport/swimming, sport/boxing, goodfood/recipes, goodfood/tips-and-advice, goodfood/brisbane-eating-out, goodfood/drinks, culture, culture/movies, culture/tv-and-radio, culture/music, culture/celebrity, culture/books, culture/comedy, culture/dance, culture/musicals, culture/opera, culture/theatre, culture/art-and-design, culture/live-reviews, lifestyle/health-and-wellness, lifestyle/fashion, lifestyle/life-and-relationships, lifestyle/beauty, traveller/inspiration/destination-guides, traveller/inspiration, traveller/reviews-and-advice, traveller/travel-news, good-weekend, sunday-life, money, money/super-and-retirement, money/investing, money/banking, money/borrowing, money/saving, money/tax, money/planning-and-budgeting, education, healthcare, environment, environment/conservation, environment/climate-change, environment/sustainability, environment/weather, technology, technology/video-games, australia-higher-education, topic/media-and-marketing-5z7, topic/auctions-1nq1, topic/financing-1nq2, topic/style-luxury-1nij, topic/horoscopes-5yc, topic/home-technology-hqq, topic/phones-5zt, topic/gadgets-hqp, topic/explainers-1lz9. | brisbane-news | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/brisbanetimes/headlines?section=brisbane-news" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Illustrative JSON response shape
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "brisbane-news",
"items": [
{
"title": "Current headline",
"url": "https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/example-story-20260930-p611ab.html",
"summary": "Publisher-provided teaser."
}
]
}
}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 Brisbane Times latest news API. | |||
| data.section | string | No |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Code examples
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/brisbanetimes/headlines?section=brisbane-news" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"