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Punch API endpoint
Punch sections API
Lists the Punch topic slugs that `punch-headlines` accepts, such as `news`, `politics`, `business` and `sports`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and the topic page `url`. The list covers top-level topics linked from Punch's navigation or active in the 90 days before 2026-09-25.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestPunchpublicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
Punch/punch/sectionsEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /punch/sections
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Punch
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Returns the Punch topic slugs accepted by punch-headlines: business, columns, continuation-from-print, diaspora, editorial, education, entertainment, feature, featured, foreign-news, health, healthwise, information-technology, interactive, interview, latest-news, law-digest-2, letters, metro-plus, news, opinion, osun-decides, panorama, politics, punch-lite, sex-relationship, smart-tips, society, special-features, spice, sponsored, sports, technology, top-stories, video, weekend-starter.
The set is Punch's top-level topic pages that are linked from its site navigation or published within the 90 days before 2026-09-25; a topic page also lists its sub-topics' stories.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /punch/sections
- Items in sections
- 36
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 3
| Field | Filled in, of 36 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| slug | 36 | |
| name | 36 | “Business” and 35 other values |
| url | 36 | punchng.com |
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/punch/sections" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"sections": [
{
"slug": "politics",
"name": "Politics",
"url": "https://punchng.com/topics/politics/"
}
]
}
}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/punch/sections" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"