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Extract Irish Independent news, county sections, articles, premium flags, and author profiles as structured JSON. 5 endpoints documented below.

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First request

Endpoint: GET /irishindependent/sections
Cost: 1 credit/request

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

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How to use Irish Independent endpoints

The Irish Independent is a Mediahuis Ireland title with a national newsroom and extensive county routes. The catalog documents 128 section slugs and a public latest feed containing about 50 recent stories. Begin with the county or regional route for place-based research, then use the latest feed only when a national cross-section is the intended sample. The 2026-10-27 sections route listed 128 slugs, including nested business and lifestyle slugs, and summaries were sparse: 20 of 50 stories on home. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 128-slug section list and the cross-section feed.

Step 1
Pick from 128 section feeds
The sections route returns every accepted slug, 128 of them: national, regional and county news, sport, business, comment, lifestyle and entertainment, each with its public RSS feed URL.
Step 2
Mark premium stories
Feed items include premium stories that need a subscription. Keep the premium signal with each record.
Step 3
Expect a teaser for premium articles
Article calls return headline, description, section, authors, publish and update times, lead image and body paragraphs; a premium article is served to anonymous readers as a one-paragraph teaser.
Step 4
Collect the author profile
The author route returns name, biography, published email and social links, headshot and the first page of the profile's recent articles.
Step 5
Handle partial summaries and bylines
The home section returned 50 stories from 2026-10-26 13:30 UTC to 2026-10-27 00:00, with a byline on 46 and a summary on only 20. All 50 had an image.
Step 6
Plan for very different windows
lifestyle-fashion-beauty returned 50 stories reaching back from 2026-10-25 to 2026-09-04, about seven weeks, while home covered half a day. Slugs like business-commercial-property and business-small-business split the business desk finely.
Step 7
Start from home and 127 more slugs
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 128 slugs, among them home, business, business-commercial-property, business-in-the-workplace, business-irish-business, business-jobs, business-money, business-small-business. Pass a slug exactly as listed and store it beside every story, because one article can surface under several slugs.
Step 8
Treat 50 rows as about an hour of news
The cross-section news route returned 50 stories from 2026-10-26 13:30 UTC to 2026-10-27 00:00 UTC, with bylines on 46 of 50, summaries on 20 of 50 and images on 50 of 50. Use it to spot fresh items and a section pull to read the complete record.

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Irish Independent API endpoints

GET/irishindependent/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get Irish Independent article content

Returns public Irish Independent article metadata (headline, description, section, authors, publish/update times, lead image) and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Premium articles are served to anonymous readers as a one-paragraph teaser; those are returned with paywalled set to true and only the teaser paragraph.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Analysis”; url: independent.ie; paywalled: true; title: 98 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 84 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-24.

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GET/irishindependent/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get an Irish Independent author profile

Returns an Irish Independent author's name, biography, published email and social links, headshot, and their most recent articles (the first page of the profile's article list) from a canonical author URL.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items. Filled in every item: title, url, published_at, section, image_url. Not in every item: summary (8), paywalled (3). In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-12; url: independent.ie; paywalled: true in 3 of 3; title: median 104 characters; image_url: prod-img.independent.ie; summary: median 80 characters.

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GET/irishindependent/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get Irish Independent section headlines

Returns fresh headlines from one public Irish Independent section feed. The section must be a slug returned by the sections endpoint.

Required: section (128 allowed values, including home, business, business-commercial-property, business-in-the-workplace, business-irish-business, business-jobs, business-money, business-small-business, business-technology, business-world, comment, comment-analysis, comment-editorial, comment-letters, comment-opinion, county, county-cork, county-cork-sport, county-dublin, county-galway, county-kerry, county-kerry-north-west-kerry-news, county-kerry-south-kerry-news, county-kerry-sport, county-kerry-tralee-news, county-louth, county-louth-drogheda-news, county-louth-dundalk-news, county-louth-sport, county-sligo, county-sligo-sport, county-wexford, county-wexford-enniscorthy-news, county-wexford-gorey-news, county-wexford-new-ross-news, county-wexford-sport, county-wexford-wexford-district, county-wicklow, county-wicklow-arklow-news, county-wicklow-bray-news).

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 50 items. Filled in every item: title, url, published_at, image_url. Not in every item: author (47), summary (31). In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-16 to 2026-10-12; url: independent.ie; title: median 92 characters; image_url: prod-img.independent.ie; summary: median 86 characters.

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GET/irishindependent/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Irish Independent top stories

Returns fresh Irish Independent (independent.ie) top stories from the site's public RSS feed, with summary, author, publish time, and lead image when present. Some stories are premium (subscriber) content; open them with the article endpoint to see the paywalled flag.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 50 items. Filled in every item: title, url, published_at, image_url. Not in every item: author (44), summary (17). In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-13; url: independent.ie; title: median 89 characters; image_url: prod-img.independent.ie; summary: median 109 characters.

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GET/irishindependent/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Irish Independent sections

Returns every Irish Independent section slug accepted by the headlines endpoint (national, regional and county news, sport, business, comment, lifestyle and entertainment), with its display name and public RSS feed URL.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 128 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “Home” and 127 other values; url: independent.ie.

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Irish Independent API Documentation

Extract Irish Independent news, county sections, articles, premium flags, and author profiles as structured JSON. 5 endpoints documented below.

Try Get Irish Independent sections Start with endpoint docs Pricing

First request

Endpoint: GET /irishindependent/sections
Cost: 1 credit/request

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

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Irish Independent Scraper API

How to use Irish Independent endpoints

Step 1
Pick from 128 section feeds
The sections route returns every accepted slug, 128 of them: national, regional and county news, sport, business, comment, lifestyle and entertainment, each with its public RSS feed URL.
Step 2
Mark premium stories
Feed items include premium stories that need a subscription. Keep the premium signal with each record.
Step 3
Expect a teaser for premium articles
Article calls return headline, description, section, authors, publish and update times, lead image and body paragraphs; a premium article is served to anonymous readers as a one-paragraph teaser.
Step 4
Collect the author profile
The author route returns name, biography, published email and social links, headshot and the first page of the profile's recent articles.
Step 5
Handle partial summaries and bylines
The home section returned 50 stories from 2026-10-26 13:30 UTC to 2026-10-27 00:00, with a byline on 46 and a summary on only 20. All 50 had an image.
Step 6
Plan for very different windows
lifestyle-fashion-beauty returned 50 stories reaching back from 2026-10-25 to 2026-09-04, about seven weeks, while home covered half a day. Slugs like business-commercial-property and business-small-business split the business desk finely.
Step 7
Start from home and 127 more slugs
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 128 slugs, among them home, business, business-commercial-property, business-in-the-workplace, business-irish-business, business-jobs, business-money, business-small-business. Pass a slug exactly as listed and store it beside every story, because one article can surface under several slugs.
Step 8
Treat 50 rows as about an hour of news
The cross-section news route returned 50 stories from 2026-10-26 13:30 UTC to 2026-10-27 00:00 UTC, with bylines on 46 of 50, summaries on 20 of 50 and images on 50 of 50. Use it to spot fresh items and a section pull to read the complete record.