SBS News API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /sbsnews/sections

Cost

1 credit/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sbsnews/sections" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use SBS News endpoints

SBS News is SBS, Australia's public broadcaster, with national, world, politics, Indigenous, environment, and life reporting. A live /sbsnews/sections response on 2026-10-14 contained 15 topic records; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the returned news topic destinations to separate Australia and world coverage from politics, Indigenous affairs, environment, and life stories. The author URL is a collection/archive with page semantics, not a promise of a standalone biography; keep podcasts and video in their separate SBS products. Article pages expose public page text. Podcast and video surfaces are outside this news integration. The author route represents an article collection, so do not interpret it as a guaranteed biography or unrestricted history. Use the endpoint cards for this integration's accepted inputs.

1. Step 1

   Use the news topic destinations

   A live /sbsnews/sections response on 2026-10-14 contained 15 topic records; refresh it before scheduling because publisher feeds change. Use the returned news topic destinations to separate Australia and world coverage from politics, Indigenous affairs, environment, and life stories. The author URL is a collection/archive with page semantics, not a promise of a standalone biography; keep podcasts and video in their separate SBS products.

2. Step 2

   Keep topics apart from language services and programs

   SBS topics are newsroom groupings, while language services and audio/video programs are distinct surfaces. Keep the selected topic with every headline call and use the contributor collection route for a person profile rather than searching a free-form byline.

3. Step 3

   Keep the topic with every headline call

   SBS topics are newsroom groupings, while language services and audio/video programs are distinct surfaces. Keep the selected topic with every headline call and use the contributor collection route for a person profile rather than searching a free-form byline. Pass only a value returned by /sbsnews/sections and accepted by /sbsnews/headlines; preserve the selected desk with its results.

4. Step 4

   Read public page text only

   Article pages expose public page text. Podcast and video surfaces are outside this news integration. The author route represents an article collection, so do not interpret it as a guaranteed biography or unrestricted history. Keep teaser, truncation, premium, or access fields beside the canonical URL so downstream users can see what the publisher actually returned.

5. Step 5

   Treat author URLs as article collections

   Use the returned news topic destinations to separate Australia and world coverage from politics, Indigenous affairs, environment, and life stories. The author URL is a collection/archive with page semantics, not a promise of a standalone biography; keep podcasts and video in their separate SBS products. Article pages expose public page text. Podcast and video surfaces are outside this news integration. The author route represents an article collection, so do not interpret it as a guaranteed biography or unrestricted history.

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