Gulf News API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /gulfnews/headlines

Cost

1 credit/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/gulfnews/headlines?section=latest-news" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use Gulf News endpoints

Gulf News is useful for research that needs UAE and Gulf context alongside regional business, international, and expatriate-life coverage. Its publisher lists UAE, Gulf, Business, International, Sport, Opinion, Lifestyle, and Entertainment among subscription content areas, with dedicated Living in UAE, Your Money, Parenting, Food, and Games features. In the catalog-verified public article samples, the article route returned full body paragraphs and no paywalled field; preserve the actual response rather than inferring access from the publisher's subscription offering. Separate company coverage from macroeconomic reporting and preserve the initial publication time when comparing updates. On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 19 slugs, and the section feeds returned plain link lists: latest-news gave 98 rows and opinion 17 with no timestamps, summaries or images.

1. Step 1

   Pick one of 19 top-level sections

   The sections route lists 19 top-level slugs such as latest-news, business, uae, world, sport, things-to-do, living-in-uae and your-money. Other values return an invalid-params error.

2. Step 2

   Expect a bare headline

   Section headline items carry a title and canonical article URL only, and the news route adds publication time and lead image but no summary. Fetch the article for context.

3. Step 3

   Match the -1.<id> URL pattern

   Article calls need a gulfnews.com URL whose path ends in the -1.<id> suffix; section and author pages are rejected. The response has title, description, section, authors, image, publish and update times and body paragraphs.

4. Step 4

   Look up an author like nathaniel-lacsina

   The author route takes a slug (for example nathaniel-lacsina) or a canonical /author/ URL, exactly one. It returns name, job title, bio and the single page of recent articles.

5. Step 5

   Date stories from the article route

   Sampled section rows carried title and URL only, so published_at is missing. The cross-section news route returned 13 stories with timestamps from 2026-10-26 02:31 UTC to 2026-10-27 01:31 and images on all 13, but summaries on only 4.

6. Step 6

   Use latest-news for breadth

   The latest-news slug returned 98 rows against 13 on the news route, so it is the better inventory when you intend to fetch articles for dates and bodies.

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