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Salon API endpoint
Salon section headlines API
Returns the latest Salon stories for one section. `section` is required and takes one of 32 slugs, including `home`, `news-and-politics`, `politics`, `opinion`, `culture`, `science-and-health` and `technology`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time, author and image.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestSalonpublicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
Salon/salon/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /salon/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Salon
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: section is required and must be one of home, audio, blog, business, culture, economy, economy-and-innovation, elections, entertainment, food, guides, innovation, life, life-stories, media, money, news, news-and-politics, opinion, oscars_2012, politics, satire, science-and-health, sex-and-love, social, sustainability, sxsw_2013, technology, the_brief, video, vpn, or working_ahead.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /salon/headlines?section=news-and-politics
- Items in items
- 30
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 6
| Field | Filled in, of 30 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 30 | median 63 characters |
| url | 30 | salon.com |
| summary | 30 | median 104 characters |
| published_at | 30 | 2026-10-04 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 30 | |
| image_url | 30 | salon.com |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Salon RSS section slug Allowed values: home, audio, blog, business, culture, economy, economy-and-innovation, elections, entertainment, food, guides, innovation, life, life-stories, media, money, news, news-and-politics, opinion, oscars_2012, politics, satire, science-and-health, sex-and-love, social, sustainability, sxsw_2013, technology, the_brief, video, vpn, working_ahead. | home | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/salon/headlines?section=home" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "news-and-politics",
"items": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.salon.com/2026/09/23/example-headline/"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.HeadlinesResponse | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under Salon top stories API. | |||
| data.section | string | No |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Code examples
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/salon/headlines?section=home" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"