GET/philstar/articleapiKey2 credits/request
Returns public Philstar article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Philstar serves full stories to anonymous readers, so no paywall flag is needed.
Required: url.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Business”; url: philstar.com; title: 55 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 200 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-24; image_url: media.philstar.com.
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GET/philstar/authorapiKey2 credits/request
Returns one Philstar author's public archive: name, profile photo when set, and the most recent stories on the first page of the archive. Authors are identified by the numeric id in the byline link (philstar.com/authors/<id>/<name>).
Optional: id, url.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items. Filled in every item: title, url, section, summary, published_at. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-13; url: philstar.com; title: median 41 characters; summary: median 158 characters.
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GET/philstar/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request
Returns the current headlines from the first page of one public Philstar section page (Philstar publishes no crawlable feeds, so this reads the section page itself).
Required: section (93 allowed values, including headlines, headlines-climate-and-environment, headlines-weather, opinion, nation, world, business, business-agriculture, business-banking, business-biz-memos, business-business-as-usual, business-motoring, business-real-estate, business-science-and-environment, business-stock-commentary, business-technology, business-telecoms, sports, sports-deans-corner, esport, entertainment, entertainment-korean-wave, entertainment-movies, entertainment-music, movies, music, lifestyle, lifestyle-arts-and-culture, lifestyle-business-life, lifestyle-fashion-and-beauty, lifestyle-food-and-leisure, lifestyle-gadgets, lifestyle-health-and-family, lifestyle-modern-living, lifestyle-on-the-radar, lifestyle-pet-life, lifestyle-shopping-guide, lifestyle-the-budgetarian, lifestyle-travel-and-tourism, news-commentary).
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 15 items. Filled in every item: title, url, published_at, author, image_url. Not in every item: summary (11). In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-14; url: philstar.com; title: median 45 characters; summary: median 128 characters; image_url: media.philstar.com.
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GET/philstar/newsapiKey1 credit/request
Returns the current Philstar (Philippine Star) top stories from the public homepage: the latest, trending and featured stories with summary, byline, thumbnail and the publication date encoded in the story URL.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 69 items. Filled in every item: title, url, published_at. Not in every item: summary (18), author (22), image_url (52). In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-03 to 2026-10-14; url: philstar.com; title: median 44 characters; summary: median 68 characters; image_url: media.philstar.com and 1 other host.
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GET/philstar/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request
Returns the public Philstar editorial section inventory: every English, Filipino (Pilipino Star Ngayon, Pang-Masa) and Cebuano (Banat, The Freeman) section page that lists stories.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 93 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “Headlines” and 92 other values; url: philstar.com.
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Philstar API endpoints