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WalesOnline API endpoint
WalesOnline sections API
Lists the 37 WalesOnline sections accepted by `walesonline-headlines`, with nested slugs such as `news/wales-news`, `sport/rugby` and `whats-on/food-drink-news`. Each has a `slug`, a display `name` and a feed `url`. Takes no parameters.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestWalesOnlinepublicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
WalesOnline/walesonline/sectionsEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /walesonline/sections
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- WalesOnline
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.sectionsResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Returns the public WalesOnline editorial section inventory accepted by walesonline-headlines. Each entry has a slug, a display name, and the public feed url. The accepted slugs are: news, news/wales-news, news/uk-news, news/world-news, news/politics, news/local-news, news/education, news/health, news/cost-of-living, news/homes-property, news/motoring, news/motoring/motoring-news, news/news-opinion, sport, sport/football, sport/football/football-news, sport/football/transfer-news, sport/rugby, sport/rugby/rugby-news, sport/boxing, sport/other-sport, sport/other-sport/athletics, whats-on, whats-on/whats-on-news, whats-on/arts-culture-news, whats-on/family-kids-news, whats-on/food-drink-news, whats-on/music-nightlife-news, whats-on/restaurants-bars, whats-on/shopping, whats-on/travel, lifestyle, lifestyle/showbiz, lifestyle/tv, lifestyle/welsh-homes, special-features, in-your-area.
Every listed feed returned a live RSS document with at least one readable entry and a current build date when the list was last verified (2026-09-25). Sections whose feed was empty and unchanged for years (lifestyle/nostalgia, sport/sport-opinion), guessed slugs that return 404 and topic pages under /all-about/ are not included. Feeds return up to about 25 entries.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /walesonline/sections
- Items in sections
- 37
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 3
| Field | Filled in, of 37 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| slug | 37 | |
| name | 37 | “News” and 36 other values |
| url | 37 | walesonline.co.uk |
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/walesonline/sections" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"sections": [
{
"slug": "news/wales-news",
"name": "Wales News",
"url": "https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/?service=rss"
}
]
}
}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/walesonline/sections" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"