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Evening Standard API endpoint
Evening Standard section headlines API
Returns the latest Evening Standard headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `news/london`, `news/politics`, `sport/football`, `business/markets`, `culture/theatre` or `homesandproperty/renting`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time, author and image.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestEvening Standardpublicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
Evening Standard/standard/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /standard/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Evening Standard
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: section is required and must be one of news, news/london, news/politics, news/transport, news/crime, news/world, news/education, news/health, news/tech, sport, sport/football, sport/rugby, sport/cricket, sport/boxing, sport/formula-one, sport/tennis, business, business/business-news, business/markets, business/economy, business/technology-media, business/leisure-retail, business/money, business/property, lifestyle, lifestyle/fashion, lifestyle/beauty, lifestyle/travel, lifestyle/wellness, lifestyle/dating, culture, culture/theatre, culture/film, culture/tvfilm, culture/music, culture/books, going-out, going-out/restaurants, going-out/foodanddrink, going-out/bars, going-out/attractions, going-out/events, homesandproperty, homesandproperty/property-news, homesandproperty/buying-mortgages, homesandproperty/renting, homesandproperty/where-to-live, homesandproperty/interiors, homesandproperty/gardening, comment, comment/podcasts, showbiz, or showbiz/celebrity-news.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /standard/headlines?section=news%2Fpolitics
- Items in items
- 27
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 6
| Field | Filled in, of 27 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 27 | median 75 characters |
| url | 27 | standard.co.uk |
| summary | 27 | median 103 characters |
| published_at | 27 | 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 27 | |
| image_url | 27 | static.standard.co.uk |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Evening Standard RSS section slug Allowed values: news, news/london, news/politics, news/transport, news/crime, news/world, news/education, news/health, news/tech, sport, sport/football, sport/rugby, sport/cricket, sport/boxing, sport/formula-one, sport/tennis, business, business/business-news, business/markets, business/economy, business/technology-media, business/leisure-retail, business/money, business/property, lifestyle, lifestyle/fashion, lifestyle/beauty, lifestyle/travel, lifestyle/wellness, lifestyle/dating, culture, culture/theatre, culture/film, culture/tvfilm, culture/music, culture/books, going-out, going-out/restaurants, going-out/foodanddrink, going-out/bars, going-out/attractions, going-out/events, homesandproperty, homesandproperty/property-news, homesandproperty/buying-mortgages, homesandproperty/renting, homesandproperty/where-to-live, homesandproperty/interiors, homesandproperty/gardening, comment, comment/podcasts, showbiz, showbiz/celebrity-news. | news | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/standard/headlines?section=news" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "news/politics",
"items": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/example-b1234567.html"
}
]
}
}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 Evening 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/standard/headlines?section=news" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"