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Business Standard API endpoint
Business Standard section headlines API
Returns recent headlines for one Business Standard section: up to 35 stories, or 100 for `latest-news`. `section` is required and takes one of 25 slugs such as `companies`, `markets`, `cricket` or `todays-paper`. Some stories are premium (subscriber-only), and requesting one from the article endpoint returns `403`.
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Business Standard/businessstandard/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /businessstandard/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Business Standard
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: section is required and must be one of latest-news, companies, economy, finance, opinion, markets, technology, specials, budget, elections, politics, education, health, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, india-news, industry, cricket, book, world-news, external-affairs-defence-security, immigration, blueprint-defence-magazine, or todays-paper. Any other value returns a 400.
Items come from the section's public feed, which lists up to 35 recent stories (100 for latest-news). Some listed stories may be premium (subscriber-only); requesting one from businessstandard-article returns a 403.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /businessstandard/headlines?section=companies
- Items in items
- 35
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 5
| Field | Filled in, of 35 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 35 | median 71 characters |
| url | 35 | business-standard.com |
| summary | 35 | median 178 characters |
| published_at | 35 | 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 |
| image_url | 35 | bsmedia.business-standard.com |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Business Standard section slug Allowed values: latest-news, companies, economy, finance, opinion, markets, technology, specials, budget, elections, politics, education, health, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, india-news, industry, cricket, book, world-news, external-affairs-defence-security, immigration, blueprint-defence-magazine, todays-paper. | latest-news | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/businessstandard/headlines?section=latest-news" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "companies",
"items": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/example-article-slug-126092401169_1.html",
"summary": "Example summary.",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T17:56:23Z"
}
]
}
}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 Business Standard top stories 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/businessstandard/headlines?section=latest-news" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"