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SBS News API endpoint
SBS News section headlines API
Returns current SBS News headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes one of 15 slugs from `sbsnews-sections`, such as `top`, `latest`, `australia`, `world`, `politics`, `indigenous`, `cost-of-living` or `sport`. Every item has its title and URL. The `top`, `latest`, `australia` and `world` sections also include summary, publication time and image.
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SBS News/sbsnews/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /sbsnews/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- SBS News
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: section is required and must be one of top, latest, australia, world, politics, indigenous, environment, life, cost-of-living, immigration, health-and-wellbeing, sport, education, technology-and-social-media, or arts-and-entertainment. Use sbsnews-sections to discover the live URLs. RSS feeds are used where SBS publishes them; other supported public topic/collection pages are parsed as HTML story lists.
Workflow check
Start from the checked request: GET /sbsnews/headlines?section=politics. Live check on 2026-10-14: 10 items returned. Fields present in every checked item: title, url.
Resolve a returned canonical story URL with Get SBS News article content.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /sbsnews/headlines?section=politics
- Items in items
- 10
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 2
| Field | Filled in, of 10 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 10 | median 77 characters |
| url | 10 | sbs.com.au |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Section slug from sbsnews-sections Allowed values: top, latest, australia, world, politics, indigenous, environment, life, cost-of-living, immigration, health-and-wellbeing, sport, education, technology-and-social-media, arts-and-entertainment. | politics | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/sbsnews/headlines?section=politics" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Illustrative JSON response shape
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "politics",
"items": [
{
"title": "Example politics headline",
"url": "https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/example-story/abc123xyz"
}
]
}
}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 SBS News 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/sbsnews/headlines?section=politics" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"