News24 API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /news24/article

Cost

2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/news24/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news24.com%2Fworld%2Funtangling-the-meth-mexican-cartels-set-up-huge-labs-in-sa-to-service-demand-in-australia-20260924-0692" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use News24 endpoints

News24 is a Media24 South African news publication whose sections span national affairs, economy, investigations and sport. Its four cataloged endpoints have no author-profile operation. That matters when designing a collection: a byline on an article is useful attribution, but there is no separate author archive in this API. News24 labels subscriber stories in both headline cards and article results, and the article endpoint returns only the public standfirst for those pieces. The 2026-10-27 sections route listed 73 nested slugs, such as business/climate-future/energy, and the feeds returned bare rows of title, URL, image and type. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 73-slug section list and the cross-section feed.

1. Step 1

   Map 73 slugs from business to sport/rugby/pnpgoldcup

   The sections route lists 73 slugs that are URL paths under news24.com and may contain a slash, such as business/markets, sport/rugby/springboks and politics.

2. Step 2

   Read the subscriber type

   Headline cards carry type subscriber when News24 marks them subscriber-only; the news route lists title, canonical URL and image and omits type otherwise.

3. Step 3

   Expect a standfirst for subscriber stories

   Subscriber-only articles return the standfirst as the only paragraph with paywalled set to true.

4. Step 4

   Rows carry no dates or bylines

   News24 has sections, headlines, news and article routes only, and lists 73 slugs including nested ones such as business/climate-future/energy. On 2026-10-30 the cross-section news route returned 73 stories with only title, url, type and an image, and the business section returned 21 rows of the same thin shape, so published_at must come from the article route, whose sample was 1 paragraph (about 240 characters) flagged paywalled.

5. Step 5

   Walk the nesting before choosing a slug

   business has children like business/climate-future, business/climate-future/energy and business/companies, so one story can sit under several levels. Pull the level that matches the question and keep its slug.

6. Step 6

   Expect no dates or summaries

   business returned 22 rows, southafrica 18 and the news route 73, all with images and a type field but no published_at, summary or author. Use the article route for the date and body.

7. Step 7

   Start from business and 72 more slugs

   On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 73 slugs, among them business, business/climate-future, business/climate-future/energy, business/climate-future/environment, business/climate-future/news, business/climate-future/solutions, business/companies, business/consumer-lookout. Pass a slug exactly as listed and store it beside every story, because one article can surface under several slugs.

8. Step 8

   Read a 71-row strip without usable timestamps

   The cross-section news route returned 73 stories, with bylines on none of 73, summaries on none of 73 and images on 73 of 73. Treat it as a recent strip and fetch section feeds or articles for fuller fields.

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