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Irish Independent API endpoint
Irish Independent sections API
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.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestIrish Independentpublicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
Irish Independent/irishindependent/sectionsEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /irishindependent/sections
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Irish Independent
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Returns every section slug accepted by irishindependent-headlines, with its display name and public RSS feed URL. No parameters.
The 128 slugs are: 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, county-wicklow-sport, county-wicklow-west-wicklow-news, county-wicklow-wicklow-district, entertainment, entertainment-books, entertainment-celebrity, entertainment-movies, entertainment-music, entertainment-radio, entertainment-television, entertainment-theatre-arts, farming, irish-news, irish-news-courts, irish-news-crime, irish-news-education, irish-news-health, irish-news-politics, latest, lifestyle, lifestyle-family, lifestyle-family-learning, lifestyle-family-mothers-babies, lifestyle-family-parenting, lifestyle-fashion-beauty, lifestyle-food-drink, lifestyle-food-drink-food-reviews, lifestyle-food-drink-recipes, lifestyle-food-drink-wine, lifestyle-health-wellbeing, lifestyle-health-wellbeing-baby-loss, lifestyle-health-wellbeing-fitness, lifestyle-health-wellbeing-healthy-eating, lifestyle-health-wellbeing-mental-health, lifestyle-home-garden, lifestyle-home-garden-gardens, lifestyle-home-garden-homes, lifestyle-home-garden-interiors, lifestyle-home-garden-new-homes, lifestyle-motoring, lifestyle-motoring-car-news, lifestyle-motoring-car-reviews, lifestyle-motoring-car-talk, lifestyle-sex-relationships, lifestyle-travel, lifestyle-weddings, seachtain, sport, sport-gaa, sport-gaa-camogie, sport-gaa-gaelic-football, sport-gaa-hurling, sport-gaa-ladies-football, sport-gaa-u-20-gaelic-football, sport-gaa-u-20-hurling, sport-golf, sport-horse-racing, sport-other-sports, sport-other-sports-american-football, sport-other-sports-athletics, sport-other-sports-basketball, sport-other-sports-boxing, sport-other-sports-cricket, sport-other-sports-cycling, sport-other-sports-darts, sport-other-sports-hockey, sport-other-sports-motor-sport, sport-other-sports-rowing, sport-other-sports-snooker, sport-other-sports-swimming, sport-other-sports-tennis, sport-rugby, sport-rugby-champions-cup, sport-rugby-connacht-rugby, sport-rugby-leinster-rugby, sport-rugby-munster-rugby, sport-rugby-six-nations, sport-rugby-ulster-rugby, sport-rugby-united-rugby-championship, sport-soccer, sport-soccer-champions-league, sport-soccer-international-soccer, sport-soccer-league-of-ireland, sport-soccer-other-soccer, sport-soccer-premier-league, sport-womens-sport, subscriber-exclusives, and world-news.
A slug is the section's URL path with / replaced by - (for example sport-golf is /sport/golf/, county-kerry-tralee-news is /county/kerry/tralee-news/). home is the site-wide feed (the same stories as irishindependent-news). Parent sections such as sport, irish-news, business, lifestyle, county, county-kerry, and sport-rugby overlap with their child sections rather than excluding them; latest is the newest-first stream across the site and subscriber-exclusives is the premium-only stream. The county sections cover the eight counties the site publishes local editions for: Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Louth, Sligo, Wexford, and Wicklow. seachtain is the Irish-language section. Topic tag pages (/tag/...), podcasts, video, puzzles, weather, and sponsored story-plus content are not sections.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /irishindependent/sections
- Items in sections
- 128
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 3
| Field | Filled in, of 128 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| slug | 128 | |
| name | 128 | “Home” and 127 other values |
| url | 128 | independent.ie |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/irishindependent/sections" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"sections": [
{
"slug": "home",
"name": "Home",
"url": "https://www.independent.ie/rss/"
},
{
"slug": "sport-golf",
"name": "Golf",
"url": "https://www.independent.ie/sport/golf/rss/"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.SectionsResponse | No | ||||
| data.sections | array | No | ||||
| data.sections[].name | string | No | ||||
| data.sections[].slug | string | No | ||||
| data.sections[].url | string | No |
Code examples
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/irishindependent/sections" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"