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Nation Africa API endpoint
Nation Africa sections API
Lists the 47 section slugs of Nation Africa's Kenya edition accepted by `nationafrica-headlines`, such as `news`, `politics`, `counties`, `football` and `fact-checks`. Each entry has its `slug`, display `name` and section page `url`. Photo, video, audio, puzzle, newsletter and cartoon pages are not included.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestNation Africapublicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
Nation Africa/nationafrica/sectionsEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /nationafrica/sections
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Nation Africa
- Execution
- Managed browser rendering where the target needs it
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Returns the complete section inventory accepted by /api/v1/nationafrica/headlines: 47 sections of nation.africa's Kenya edition, verified live 2026-09-25 (each page lists at least ten stories): news, politics, world, gender, education, business, companies, enterprise, finance-and-markets, seeds-of-gold, sports, football, athletics, rugby, motorsports, other-sports, talkup, counties, coast, lake-region, mountain, nairobi-metro, northern, rift-valley, blogs-opinion, opinion, editorials, letters, blogs, cutting-edge, life-and-style, wellness, travel, relationships, motoring, family, culture, art-books, health, healthy-nation, elections, elections-news, presidential, governor-race, constituencies, explainers, fact-checks.
Each section includes a stable slug, display name, and public upstream url (the section page). Photo, video, audio, puzzle, newsletter and cartoon pages, and sections whose page lists no stories without JavaScript (such as Africa and Live), are not included.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /nationafrica/sections
- Items in sections
- 47
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 3
| Field | Filled in, of 47 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| slug | 47 | |
| name | 47 | “News” and 46 other values |
| url | 47 | nation.africa |
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/nationafrica/sections" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"sections": [
{
"slug": "news",
"name": "News",
"url": "https://nation.africa/kenya/news"
},
{
"slug": "business",
"name": "Business",
"url": "https://nation.africa/kenya/business"
}
]
}
}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/nationafrica/sections" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"