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Vanguard API endpoint
Vanguard section headlines API
Lists up to 20 recent Vanguard stories from one category. `section` is required and takes one of 42 slugs such as `national-news`, `politics`, `business`, `sports`, `business/energy` or `more/metro`. Items carry title, URL, summary, author and publication time. An unknown section returns an invalid-params error.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestVanguardpublicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
Vanguard/vanguardng/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /vanguardng/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Vanguard
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: section is required and must be one of national-news, top-stories, more-news, politics, business, business/energy, business/insurance-and-you, sports, entertainment, health, education-2, technology, innovation-2, aviation, agric, motoring, pension, foreign, editorial, opinion, columns, viewpoints, discourse, features, special-reports, thearts, cartoons, romance-an-relationships, homes-property, travel-and-tourism, style/allure/interviews, tribute, promoted, videos, top-podcasts, national-news/icymi, more, more/education, more/interview, more/labour, more/law-and-human-rights, more/metro. Any other value returns an invalid-params error before any upstream request.
Returns up to 20 recent stories from that category's public RSS feed. Each call makes one upstream request.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /vanguardng/headlines?section=sports
- Items in items
- 20
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 5
| Field | Filled in, of 20 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 20 | median 65 characters |
| url | 20 | vanguardngr.com |
| summary | 20 | median 298 characters |
| published_at | 20 | 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 20 |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Vanguard section slug Allowed values: national-news, top-stories, more-news, politics, business, business/energy, business/insurance-and-you, sports, entertainment, health, education-2, technology, innovation-2, aviation, agric, motoring, pension, foreign, editorial, opinion, columns, viewpoints, discourse, features, special-reports, thearts, cartoons, romance-an-relationships, homes-property, travel-and-tourism, style/allure/interviews, tribute, promoted, videos, top-podcasts, national-news/icymi, more, more/education, more/interview, more/labour, more/law-and-human-rights, more/metro. | national-news | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/vanguardng/headlines?section=national-news" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "sports",
"items": [
{
"title": "Yalcouye makes dream debut as Ivory Coast beat Ghana in AFCON qualifier",
"url": "https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/09/yalcouye-makes-dream-debut-as-ivory-coast-beat-ghana-in-afcon-qualifier"
}
]
}
}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 Vanguard top stories 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/vanguardng/headlines?section=national-news" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"