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Daily Kos API endpoint
Daily Kos section headlines API
Returns the current stories for one Daily Kos category. `section` is required and takes one of 24 slugs such as `news/elections`, `news/courts`, `cartoon` or `announcements`; any other value returns a 400. Some categories can be empty, which comes back as an empty `items` list.
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Daily Kos/dailykos/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /dailykos/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Daily Kos
- Execution
- Managed browser rendering where the target needs it
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: section is required and accepts exactly one of announcements, cartoon, daily-kos, partnerhub, news, news/business-and-economy, news/congress, news/courts, news/culture, news/elections, news/environment, news/health, news/immigration, news/justice, news/media, news/media-and-culture, news/national, news/science, news/series, news/stateandlocal, news/tech, news/videos, news/whitehouse, or news/world. Any other value returns a 400. Use /dailykos/sections to discover the same complete set.
Returns items from the selected category's public RSS feed. Some categories can currently be empty; empty feeds are returned as empty item lists. Dynamic tag archives and community content are outside this endpoint.
Live monitoring
- Monitored request
- GET /dailykos/headlines?section=news%2Felections
- Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026
- 100%
- Median response time
- 1.65 s
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /dailykos/headlines?section=news%2Felections
- Items in items
- 10
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 5
| Field | Filled in, of 10 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 10 | median 62 characters |
| url | 10 | dailykos.com |
| summary | 10 | median 117 characters |
| published_at | 10 | 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 10 |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Daily Kos category slug Allowed values: announcements, cartoon, daily-kos, partnerhub, news, news/business-and-economy, news/congress, news/courts, news/culture, news/elections, news/environment, news/health, news/immigration, news/justice, news/media, news/media-and-culture, news/national, news/science, news/series, news/stateandlocal, news/tech, news/videos, news/whitehouse, news/world. | announcements | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/dailykos/headlines?section=announcements" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "news/elections",
"items": [
{
"title": "Example staff story",
"url": "https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/28/800104871/news/example-story/",
"published_at": "2026-09-28T18:00:00Z"
}
]
}
}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 Daily Kos 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/dailykos/headlines?section=announcements" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"