CNA API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /cna/headlines

Cost

1 credit/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/cna/headlines?section=asia" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use CNA endpoints

CNA gives Singapore-first reporting a clear context beside broader Asian, business, sport, and world coverage. CNA's core sections are Singapore, Asia, Business, Sport, and World. A 2026-09-26 Singapore pull covered unhealthy central-region PSI and Shanti Pereira's Asian Games 200m qualification, showing how public-information and sports stories coexist in one national feed. Choose the section that matches the question, then keep the article's publication time and URL for later checks. For cross-border research, retain Singapore versus broader Asia labels rather than folding both into a generic regional bucket. A pull on 2026-10-27 listed only 5 sections (asia, business, singapore, sport, world), with no bylines or images on the rows.

1. Step 1

   Use the five sections

   The sections route lists asia, business, singapore, sport and world; any other value is rejected.

2. Step 2

   Check summaries per section

   On 2026-10-30 the asia section returned 20 headlines with summaries on 18, business 20 with a summary on 1, and neither carried bylines or images. The cross-section strip returned 18 stories from 2026-10-30 01:46 to 04:55 UTC with summaries on 10; CNA lists only 5 slugs (asia, business, singapore, sport, world).

3. Step 3

   Match the id-ending URL

   Article calls take a canonical channelnewsasia.com address such as /singapore/<slug>-<id> or /commentary/<slug>-<id> and return title, description, publication and update times, section, authors, image and body paragraphs.

4. Step 4

   Look up a correspondent by slug or URL

   The author route takes a slug (such as aqil-haziq-mahmud) or a channelnewsasia.com/author/<slug> URL, exactly one, and returns name, job title, bio, email, image and the latest page of articles.

5. Step 5

   Use the small taxonomy

   asia returned 12 stories from 2026-10-25 06:57 UTC to 2026-10-27 02:31 and singapore 18 from 2026-10-26 03:21 to 2026-10-27 03:45. Filter by topic in your own pipeline, because five slugs cannot express beats.

6. Step 6

   Fill in missing fields

   Rows had summaries (11 of 12 for asia) but no author or image; the news route returned 15 stories with summaries on 9. Use the article route for the rest.

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