FT API endpoint
Returns one page of a Financial Times section front: each story's title, canonical URL, summary, section tag, publication time, and lead image. Section must be a slug returned by /ft/categories.
/ft/headlinesQuery parameters:
section, an FT section slug. Discover the full accepted set from /ft/categories; examples include world, us, companies, technology, markets, opinion, life-arts, us-economy, and us-companies. Values that are not a current FT section return a typed invalid-parameter error rather than being sent upstream.page, a 1-based results page. It defaults to 1 and must be between 1 and 20.Returns one page of a section front: each story's title, canonical url, summary, section section, published_at, and lead image_url. has_more reports whether the section advertises a further page.
| Field | Filled in, of 41 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 41 | median 65 characters |
| url | 41 | ft.com |
| summary | 34 | median 101 characters |
| section | 37 | “War in Ukraine” and 30 other values |
| published_at | 7 | 2026-10-13 |
| image_url | 6 | images.ft.com |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Section slug from /ft/categories | world | |
| page | integer | No | Results page Minimum: 1. Maximum: 20. | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/ft/headlines?section=world&page=1" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"section": "world",
"page": 1,
"has_more": true,
"items": [
{
"title": "Russia’s new air campaign seeks to destroy Ukrainian economy",
"url": "https://www.ft.com/content/0ecc81ad-2119-4763-90fb-ba5d399d913d",
"summary": "Drone and missile strikes hit warehouses, steel plants, ports and railways",
"section": "War in Ukraine",
"published_at": "2026-09-20T09:00:00.000Z",
"image_url": "https://images.ft.com/example.jpg"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/ft.headlinesResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | ft.HeadlinesResponse | No | ||||
| data.has_more | boolean | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 6 fields: image_url, published_at, section, summary, title, url. Described under FT author profile API. | |||
| data.page | integer | No | ||||
| data.section | string | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/ft/headlines?section=world&page=1" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"