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The Sydney Morning Herald API endpoint
Sydney Morning Herald News API
Returns The Sydney Morning Herald's current "Latest News" public RSS feed: each story's title, canonical URL, summary, author, publication time, and lead image.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestThe Sydney Morning Heraldpublicnews.newsResponseDoc
The Sydney Morning Herald/smh/newsEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /smh/news
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- The Sydney Morning Herald
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.newsResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Returns The Sydney Morning Herald's current public "Latest News" feed (about 20 stories): title, canonical URL, summary, author, publication time (UTC), and lead image. Story URLs are returned in canonical form with tracking parameters removed.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /smh/news
- Items in items
- 20
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 5
- Fields empty in some or all items
- 1
| Field | Filled in, of 20 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 20 | median 51 characters |
| url | 20 | smh.com.au |
| summary | 20 | median 112 characters |
| published_at | 20 | 2026-10-13 |
| author | 10 | |
| image_url | 20 | static.ffx.io |
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/smh/news" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"items": [
{
"title": "Second child allegedly stabbed by mother in Blue Mountains attack dies in hospital",
"url": "https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/second-child-allegedly-stabbed-by-mother-in-blue-mountains-attack-dies-in-hospital-20260924-p610d5.html",
"summary": "The one-year-old died in hospital on Thursday, five days after the alleged stabbing attack.",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T09:44:20Z",
"author": "Daniel Lo Surdo",
"image_url": "https://static.ffx.io/images/..."
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.newsResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.NewsResponse | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | ||||
| data.items[].author | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].summary | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].type | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].url | string | No |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/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/smh/news" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"