Daily Maverick API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /dailymaverick/sections

Cost

1 credit/request

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

How to use Daily Maverick endpoints

Daily Maverick is South African public-interest journalism, investigations, opinion, and regional reporting. A live /dailymaverick/sections response on 2026-10-14 contained 51 section records; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the section list to focus a monitor on a verified editorial category, and keep opinion pieces distinct from reported articles when reviewing results. The rolling news sitemap is useful for understanding discovery coverage, while the exposed headlines call itself accepts a section only. The article route accepts canonical /article/ and /opinionista/ URLs, but returned text can be a teaser and a paywall marker is meaningful when present. Although the upstream source pages use paging, Crawlora's section route has no page parameter; author profiles were not verified. Use the endpoint cards for this integration's accepted inputs.

1. Step 1

   Use verified categories, not sitemap discovery

   A live /dailymaverick/sections response on 2026-10-14 contained 51 section records; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the section list to focus a monitor on a verified editorial category, and keep opinion pieces distinct from reported articles when reviewing results. The rolling news sitemap is useful for understanding discovery coverage, while the exposed headlines call itself accepts a section only.

2. Step 2

   Separate reported articles from Opinionista pieces

   Separate reported pieces from Opinionista URLs in your records because the publisher exposes both paths and access can differ. Its website sitemap has paging, but the Crawlora section-headlines call does not accept a page input; do not manufacture a cursor from upstream behavior.

3. Step 3

   Do not manufacture a page cursor

   Separate reported pieces from Opinionista URLs in your records because the publisher exposes both paths and access can differ. Its website sitemap has paging, but the Crawlora section-headlines call does not accept a page input; do not manufacture a cursor from upstream behavior. Pass only a value returned by /dailymaverick/sections and accepted by /dailymaverick/headlines; preserve the selected desk with its results.

4. Step 4

   Read the paywall marker when it appears

   The article route accepts canonical /article/ and /opinionista/ URLs, but returned text can be a teaser and a paywall marker is meaningful when present. Although the upstream source pages use paging, Crawlora's section route has no page parameter; author profiles were not verified. Keep teaser, truncation, premium, or access fields beside the canonical URL so downstream users can see what the publisher actually returned.

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