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The National API endpoint
The National section headlines API
Returns current The National stories for a category. Pass one of the editorial section slugs from national_sections. A valid category with no current stories returns an empty items list.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestThe Nationalpublicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
The National/national/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /national/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- The National
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: section is required and must be one of news, news/uae, news/gulf, news/mena, mena/arab-showcase, news/us, news/uk, news/europe, news/asia, business, business/aviation, business/economy, business/energy, business/money, business/property, business/banking, business/uk, business/markets, in-focus, opinion, opinion/comment, opinion/editorial, opinion/obituaries, opinion/cartoon, opinion/feedback, future, future/science, future/space, future/technology, climate, climate/environment, climate/road-to-net-zero, health, arts-culture, arts-culture/art-design, arts-culture/books, arts-culture/film-tv, arts-culture/music-stage, arts-culture/pop-culture, lifestyle, travel, lifestyle/fashion-beauty, lifestyle/food, lifestyle/motoring, magazine, lifestyle/luxury, lifestyle/home-garden, lifestyle/wellbeing, lifestyle/things-to-do, sport, sport/football, sport/cricket, sport/f1, sport/tennis, sport/combat-sports, sport/cycling, or weekend. Other values return HTTP 400. Use national_sections to discover the complete list.
A valid category with no current stories returns an empty items list. Headlines are limited to the entries in the publisher's current Arc category RSS response; this endpoint does not paginate.
Workflow check
Start from the checked request: GET /national/headlines?section=news%2Fuae. Live check on 2026-10-14: 25 items returned. Fields present in every checked item: title, url, published_at, author, image_url.
Resolve a returned canonical story URL with Get The National article content.
Live monitoring
- Monitored request
- GET /national/headlines?section=news%2Fuae
- Checks passed, 7 days to 14 Oct 2026
- 100%
- Median response time
- 2.03 s
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /national/headlines?section=news%2Fuae
- Items in items
- 25
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 5
| Field | Filled in, of 25 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 25 | median 77 characters |
| url | 25 | thenationalnews.com |
| published_at | 25 | 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-14 |
| author | 25 | |
| image_url | 25 | thenationalnews.com |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | The National editorial section slug Allowed values: news, news/uae, news/gulf, news/mena, mena/arab-showcase, news/us, news/uk, news/europe, news/asia, business, business/aviation, business/economy, business/energy, business/money, business/property, business/banking, business/uk, business/markets, in-focus, opinion, opinion/comment, opinion/editorial, opinion/obituaries, opinion/cartoon, opinion/feedback, future, future/science, future/space, future/technology, climate, climate/environment, climate/road-to-net-zero, health, arts-culture, arts-culture/art-design, arts-culture/books, arts-culture/film-tv, arts-culture/music-stage, arts-culture/pop-culture, lifestyle, travel, lifestyle/fashion-beauty, lifestyle/food, lifestyle/motoring, magazine, lifestyle/luxury, lifestyle/home-garden, lifestyle/wellbeing, lifestyle/things-to-do, sport, sport/football, sport/cricket, sport/f1, sport/tennis, sport/combat-sports, sport/cycling, weekend. | news/uae | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/national/headlines?section=news%2Fuae" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Illustrative JSON response shape
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "news/uae",
"items": [
{
"title": "Example UAE headline",
"url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2026/09/30/example-story/",
"summary": "A short publisher teaser.",
"published_at": "2026-09-30T08:00:00Z"
}
]
}
}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 The National latest news 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/national/headlines?section=news%2Fuae" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"