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Daily Maverick API endpoint
Daily Maverick section headlines API
Returns up to 21 current story cards for one Daily Maverick category. `section` is required and takes one of 51 slugs such as `maverick-news`, `business-maverick`, `opinionistas`, `politics` or `sport`. Each item has its title, URL and type, plus summary, publication time, author and image when the outlet provides them.
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Daily Maverick/dailymaverick/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /dailymaverick/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Daily Maverick
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Returns up to 21 current story cards from the public category JSON endpoint. section is required and must be one of 2019-elections, 2019-rugby-world-cup, africa, analysis, articles, blog, books, business-maverick, cartoons, companies, covid-19, crypto, culture, declassified-uk, dm168, economy, editorial, elections, fifa-world-cup-2026, international-finance, johannesburg, magazine, maverick-citizen, maverick-earth, maverick-insider, maverick-life, maverick-news, media, mining, motoring, multimedia, nelson-mandela-bay, op-eds, open-secrets, opinionistas, partner-content, people-of-the-year, personal-finance, podcasts, politics, sci-tech, scorpio, south-africa, sponsored-content, sport, tgifood, ukraine-crisis, webinars, weekend-wrap, world, or world-cup-2018. Call dailymaverick-sections to obtain names and canonical category URLs.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /dailymaverick/headlines?section=maverick-news
- Items in items
- 21
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 7
| Field | Filled in, of 21 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 21 | median 76 characters |
| url | 21 | dailymaverick.co.za |
| type | 21 | article in all 21 |
| summary | 21 | median 147 characters |
| published_at | 21 | 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 21 | |
| image_url | 21 | cdn.dailymaverick.co.za |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Daily Maverick category slug Allowed values: 2019-elections, 2019-rugby-world-cup, africa, analysis, articles, blog, books, business-maverick, cartoons, companies, covid-19, crypto, culture, declassified-uk, dm168, economy, editorial, elections, fifa-world-cup-2026, international-finance, johannesburg, magazine, maverick-citizen, maverick-earth, maverick-insider, maverick-life, maverick-news, media, mining, motoring, multimedia, nelson-mandela-bay, op-eds, open-secrets, opinionistas, partner-content, people-of-the-year, personal-finance, podcasts, politics, sci-tech, scorpio, south-africa, sponsored-content, sport, tgifood, ukraine-crisis, webinars, weekend-wrap, world, world-cup-2018. | 2019-elections | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/dailymaverick/headlines?section=2019-elections" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "maverick-news",
"items": [
{
"title": "NMB Flying Squad get two cars and a promise of more",
"url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-29-nmb-flying-squad-get-two-cars-and-a-promise-of-more/",
"type": "article",
"summary": "The Nelson Mandela Bay Flying Squad is back on the road, although barely.",
"published_at": "2026-09-29T15:15:00Z"
}
]
}
}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 Maverick news API. | |||
| data.section | string | No |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/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/dailymaverick/headlines?section=2019-elections" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"