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The Star Malaysia API endpoint
The Star (Malaysia) sections API
Lists the 94 The Star (Malaysia) sections that returned at least one story to an anonymous reader when checked on 2026-09-25, and that the headlines endpoint accepts. Examples are `news-latest`, `latest-nation`, `business-smebiz` and `sport-football`. Each entry has a `slug`, a `name` and the section page `url`.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestThe Star Malaysiapublicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
The Star Malaysia/thestarmy/sectionsEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /thestarmy/sections
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- The Star Malaysia
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Returns the complete set of public story-listing pages accepted by /api/v1/thestarmy/headlines: all 94 sections of thestar.com.my that returned at least one story to an anonymous reader, verified live 2026-09-25 against the site's own navigation and sitemap. Each entry has slug, name and the source page url.
The accepted slug values are: news-latest (Latest news), latest-nation (Latest: Nation), latest-business (Latest: Business), latest-education (Latest: Education), latest-aseanplus (Latest: AseanPlus), latest-sport (Latest: Sport), latest-metro (Latest: Metro), latest-tech (Latest: Tech), latest-world (Latest: World), latest-lifestyle (Latest: Lifestyle), latest-food (Latest: Food), news-nation (Nation), news-world (World), news-environment (Environment), news-in-other-media (In Other Media), news-true-or-not (True or Not), news-focus (Focus), aseanplus-aseanplus-news (AseanPlus News), business-insight (Business Insight), business-smebiz (SMEBiz), business-premium (StarBiz Premium), sport-athletics (Athletics), sport-hockey (Hockey), sport-football (Football), sport-golf (Golf), sport-badminton (Badminton), sport-tennis (Tennis), sport-motorsport (Motorsport), sport-other-sport (Other Sport), sport-say-what (Say What), sport-archery (Other Sport: Archery), sport-basketball (Other Sport: Basketball), sport-bowling (Other Sport: Bowling), sport-boxing (Other Sport: Boxing), sport-cricket (Other Sport: Cricket), sport-cycling (Other Sport: Cycling), sport-diving (Other Sport: Diving), sport-gymnastics (Other Sport: Gymnastics), sport-others (Other Sport: Others), sport-rugby (Other Sport: Rugby), sport-shooting (Other Sport: Shooting), sport-squash (Other Sport: Squash), sport-swimming (Other Sport: Swimming), sport-wrestling (Other Sport: Wrestling), metro-metro-news (Metro News), metro-community-sports (Community Sports), metro-views (Metro Views), lifestyle (Lifestyle), lifestyle-entertainment-and-style (Entertainment and Style), lifestyle-people-and-living (People and Living), lifestyle-health-and-family (Health and Family), lifestyle-travel-and-culture (Travel and Culture), lifestyle-viewpoints (Viewpoints), lifestyle-entertainment (Entertainment), lifestyle-living (Living), lifestyle-style (Style), lifestyle-people (People), lifestyle-health (Health), lifestyle-family (Family), lifestyle-travel (Travel), lifestyle-culture (Culture), lifestyle-design (Design), lifestyle-science (Science), lifestyle-wellness (Wellness), lifestyle-fitness (Fitness), lifestyle-mind (Mind), lifestyle-nutrition (Nutrition), lifestyle-animals (Animals), lifestyle-children (Children), lifestyle-seniors (Seniors), lifestyle-beauty (Beauty), lifestyle-fashion (Fashion), lifestyle-malaysia (Malaysia), lifestyle-global (Global), lifestyle-asia-oceania (Asia-Oceania), lifestyle-americas (Americas), lifestyle-europe (Europe), lifestyle-africa (Africa), lifestyle-arts (Arts), lifestyle-books (Books), lifestyle-climate (Climate), lifestyle-movie-review (Movie Reviews), lifestyle-music-review (Music Reviews), lifestyle-book-review (Book Reviews), food (Food), food-food-for-thought (Food for Thought), food-food-news (Food News), food-eating-out (Eating Out), tech-tech-news (Tech News), tech-tech-thoughts (Tech Thoughts), education-news (Education News), opinion-columnists (Columnists), opinion-letters (Letters), starpicks (StarPicks).
Slugs are the section's URL path with slashes turned into hyphens (news-nation is /news/nation), except the per-sport pages under Other Sport (sport-archery, sport-basketball, sport-bowling, sport-boxing, sport-cricket, sport-cycling, sport-diving, sport-gymnastics, sport-others, sport-rugby, sport-shooting, sport-squash, sport-swimming, sport-wrestling) and the per-desk latest-news filters (latest-nation, latest-business, latest-education, latest-aseanplus, latest-sport, latest-metro, latest-tech, latest-world, latest-lifestyle, latest-food). The top-level hub pages (/news, /business, /sport, /metro, /tech, /education, /opinion, /aseanplus, /esg), the market-data tables, the photo galleries, the magazine-issue list, the horoscope/comics/TV-guide pages and the interactive StarPlus feed are not story listings and are not offered.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"sections":[{"slug":"news-nation","name":"Nation","url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation"}]}}
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /thestarmy/sections
- Items in sections
- 94
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 3
| Field | Filled in, of 94 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| slug | 94 | |
| name | 94 | “Latest news” and 93 other values |
| url | 94 | thestar.com.my |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/thestarmy/sections" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"sections": [
{
"slug": "news-nation",
"name": "Nation",
"url": "https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.SectionsResponse | No | ||||
| data.sections | array | No | ||||
| data.sections[].name | string | No | ||||
| data.sections[].slug | string | No | ||||
| data.sections[].url | string | No |
Code examples
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/thestarmy/sections" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"