The Straits Times API Documentation

First request

Endpoint

GET /straitstimes/article

Cost

2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/straitstimes/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.straitstimes.com%2Fsingapore%2Fexample-article-slug" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

How to use Straits Times endpoints

The Straits Times, a Singapore title of SPH Media Trust, covers Singapore public affairs, the economy, Asia, world news, business, sport, and lifestyle. Its Singapore and regional desks can illuminate the same issue at different scales. For an ASEAN policy or business study, retain both the publisher's section and each article's country focus so cross-border reporting does not get mislabeled as domestic Singapore news. On 2026-10-25 two section calls failed: breaking-news returned a 400 and singapore/transport a generic request failure. The documented list holds more than 40 slugs with slashes in them (singapore/housing, business/companies-markets, sport/formula-one), so build for per-slug failures. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 43-slug section list and the cross-section feed.

1. Step 1

   Encode slash slugs and expect errors

   Slugs such as singapore/courts-crime and asia/se-asia contain a slash, so URL-encode them. Two calls on 2026-10-25 failed outright, so keep a per-slug status and retry later.

2. Step 2

   Do not record a failure as zero stories

   A 400 from breaking-news and a failed singapore/transport request are not empty sections. Keep the last good snapshot and log the error.

3. Step 3

   Pick parent or child feeds deliberately

   singapore has nine children (housing, health, transport, politics, jobs and more), and business, sport and life have their own. Request the child you need and note the parent separately.

4. Step 4

   Open articles; subscriber stories return a teaser

   Pass a canonical public URL to /straitstimes/article for public article text and metadata; subscriber-only stories may return only a teaser. Use /straitstimes/author for the named contributor when available, and store the slug, collection time and the article's own country tags.

5. Step 5

   Start from singapore and 42 more slugs

   On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 43 slugs, among them singapore, singapore/housing, singapore/health, singapore/transport, singapore/parenting-education, singapore/politics, singapore/jobs, singapore/environment. Send slugs verbatim and keep the slug with each record, since a story can appear under more than one of them.

6. Step 6

   Strip rows lack bylines and timestamps

   The cross-section news route returned 30 stories with only title, url and image_url (21 of 30 with an image) and no published_at. Section pulls differ: singapore returned 50 headlines from 2026-10-28 12:30 to 2026-10-30 05:06 UTC with summaries on 45, while singapore/housing returned 10 with images and no timestamps.

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