SCMP API Documentation

Get SCMP article content, headlines across an 88-feed News, Business, Tech, and Lifestyle taxonomy, and reporter profiles as structured JSON. 4 endpoints documented below.

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First request

Endpoint: GET /scmp/article
Cost: 2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/scmp/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scmp.com%2Fnews%2Fhong-kong%2Fsociety%2Farticle%2F3368530%2Fexample-slug" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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How to use SCMP endpoints

Crawlora's SCMP endpoints read scmp.com and return JSON for articles, section headlines, and reporter profiles. SCMP organizes content into 88 section and subsection RSS feeds two levels deep — Tech, for instance, splits into Big Tech, Enterprises, Innovation, Tech Leaders and Founders, and Science & Research — and the Tech section alone carried 30 stories between September 13 and September 23, 2026, almost all covering the US-China AI and chip race. Article JSON exposes a content_locked flag and a paywall_types array for SCMP's premium stories, plus a topics array of tag names distinct from the section taxonomy.

Step 1
Page news for 50 headlines
/scmp/sections returns 88 section and subsection feeds across News, Business, Tech, Lifestyle, Culture, Sport, Style, and This Week in Asia, with a parent_name field where a feed is nested; /scmp/headlines takes a slug like tech or china-economy and returns title, url, author, summary, image_url, and published_at.
Step 2
Parse a 6-paragraph body
/scmp/article returns title, section, authors, published_at, updated_at, the body as paragraphs, a topics tag array, and — for premium stories — content_locked and paywall_types fields.
Step 3
Fetch an author page for a named writer
/scmp/author returns name, role, bio, expertise, a languages array (SCMP's China-desk reporters are frequently bilingual), headshot_url, and a recent-articles list.

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GET/scmp/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get an SCMP article's content

Returns one public South China Morning Post article's metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. `content_locked` and `paywall_types` are the upstream's own restricted-access signals for that article, reported exactly as the site returns them; the body returned here is the same one the site's own page serves to an anonymous visitor. An article whose page genuinely withholds its body is reported as a restricted-access error instead of a hollow or truncated response.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 11 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-23; section: “Society”; url: scmp.com; content_locked: true; title: 79 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 130 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-23.

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GET/scmp/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get an SCMP author/reporter profile

Returns one South China Morning Post author/reporter's public profile -- name, role, biography, areas of expertise, languages, location, headshot, and contact/social links -- plus their recent articles, from a canonical author URL.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 30 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-15 to 2026-10-13; url: scmp.com; summary: median 138 characters; image_url: cdn.i-scmp.com.

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GET/scmp/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get the latest stories in an SCMP section

Returns the current article listing for one South China Morning Post section: each story's title, canonical URL, summary, byline, publication time, and lead image. Section must be a slug returned by /scmp/sections.

Required: section (88 allowed values, including news, business, property, tech, lifestyle, culture, sport, postmag, style, this-week-in-asia, cooking, hong-kong, china, asia, world, people-culture, china-politics, china-diplomacy, china-economy, hong-kong-politics, hong-kong-economy, hong-kong-health-environment, hong-kong-education, world-us-canada, world-europe, world-middle-east, world-americas, world-africa, world-russia-central-asia, asia-australasia, asia-diplomacy, asia-east-asia, asia-southeast-asia, asia-south-asia, business-companies, business-investor-relations, business-global-economy, business-money-wealth, opinion-comment, opinion-harrys-view).

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 50 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, author, published_at, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-13; url: scmp.com; title: median 79 characters; summary: median 499 characters; image_url: cdn.i-scmp.com.

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GET/scmp/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request

List SCMP sections

Lists every South China Morning Post section accepted by /scmp/headlines, with its slug, display name, feed URL, and (for a subsection) its parent section's slug and name. Values: `news`, `business`, `property`, `tech`, `lifestyle`, `culture`, `sport`, `postmag`, `style`, `this-week-in-asia`, `cooking`, `hong-kong`, `china`, `asia`, `world`, `people-culture`, `china-politics`, `china-diplomacy`, `china-economy`, `hong-kong-politics`, `hong-kong-economy`, `hong-kong-health-environment`, `hong-kong-education`, `world-us-canada`, `world-europe`, `world-middle-east`, `world-americas`, `world-africa`, `world-russia-central-asia`, `asia-australasia`, `asia-diplomacy`, `asia-east-asia`, `asia-southeast-asia`, `asia-south-asia`, `business-companies`, `business-investor-relations`, `business-global-economy`, `business-money-wealth`, `opinion-comment`, `opinion-harrys-view`, `opinion-blogs`, `opinion-polls`, `opinion-letters`, `property-hong-kong-china`, `property-international`, `tech-big-tech`, `tech-enterprises`, `tech-innovation`, `tech-leaders-founders`, `tech-science-research`, `lifestyle-fashion-beauty`, `lifestyle-travel-leisure`, `lifestyle-motoring`, `lifestyle-food-drink`, `lifestyle-health-wellness`, `lifestyle-watches`, `culture-books`, `culture-music`, `culture-film-tv`, `culture-arts`, `sport-hong-kong`, `sport-china`, `sport-golf`, `sport-racing`, `sport-rugby`, `sport-football`, `sport-tennis`, `sport-other`, `sport-boxing`, `sport-hong-kong-sevens`, `postmag-culture`, `postmag-travel`, `postmag-food-drink`, `postmag-passions`, `postmag-wellness`, `postmag-design-interiors`, `style-luxury`, `style-fashion`, `style-beauty`, `style-people`, `style-lifestyle`, `this-week-in-asia-politics`, `this-week-in-asia-geopolitics`, `this-week-in-asia-economics`, `this-week-in-asia-society`, `this-week-in-asia-opinion`, `this-week-in-asia-asia-buzz`, `this-week-in-asia-people`.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 88 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. Not in every item: parent_slug (77), parent_name (77). In the sample: name: “News” and 78 other values; url: scmp.com; parent_name: “News” and 14 other values.

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Get SCMP article content, headlines across an 88-feed News, Business, Tech, and Lifestyle taxonomy, and reporter profiles as structured JSON. 4 endpoints documented below.

Try Get an SCMP article's content Start with endpoint docs Pricing

First request

Endpoint: GET /scmp/article
Cost: 2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/scmp/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scmp.com%2Fnews%2Fhong-kong%2Fsociety%2Farticle%2F3368530%2Fexample-slug" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits South China Morning Post API

How to use SCMP endpoints

Step 1
Page news for 50 headlines
/scmp/sections returns 88 section and subsection feeds across News, Business, Tech, Lifestyle, Culture, Sport, Style, and This Week in Asia, with a parent_name field where a feed is nested; /scmp/headlines takes a slug like tech or china-economy and returns title, url, author, summary, image_url, and published_at.
Step 2
Parse a 6-paragraph body
/scmp/article returns title, section, authors, published_at, updated_at, the body as paragraphs, a topics tag array, and — for premium stories — content_locked and paywall_types fields.
Step 3
Fetch an author page for a named writer
/scmp/author returns name, role, bio, expertise, a languages array (SCMP's China-desk reporters are frequently bilingual), headshot_url, and a recent-articles list.