XDA API endpoint
Lists 10 recent XDA items for one section. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `news`, `reviews`, `buying-guides`, `gpu`, `laptops`, `windows`, `linux-hub` or `ai-tools`; `xda-sections` lists them all. Dormant sections such as `editorials` or `beats` return old items. Other values are rejected.
/xda/headlinesQuery parameter: section is required and must be one of news, features, reviews, buying-guides, tutorials, editorials, editor-columns, deals, commerce, evergreen, performance, beats, awards, hardware, processor, gpu, storage, monitors, input-devices, laptops, devices, single-board-computers, gaming-handhelds, prebuilt-pc, networking, smart-home, home, other-hardware, headset, cpu-cooler, printer, home-internet, other-computing-devices, phone-reviews, 3d-printing, esp32, home-lab, self-hosting, software, software-and-services, apps, ai-tools, claude, notebooklm, productivity, os, windows, windows-tutorials, linux-hub, linux-tutorials, macos, macos-tutorials, chromeos-tutorials, microsoft-edge, opera, spotify, bing, gaming, gaming-news, gaming-reviews, entertainment, or entertainment-segment. Any other value is rejected as an invalid parameter.
Each section returns 10 of the most recent items. Several sections are dormant (for example editorials, editor-columns, beats, awards, commerce, gaming-reviews, phone-reviews): the upstream still serves their archived items, whose newest entries are months or years old. Items link to canonical /<slug>/ article pages.
| Field | Filled in, of 10 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 10 | median 82 characters |
| url | 10 | xda-developers.com |
| summary | 10 | median 28 characters |
| published_at | 10 | 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 10 | |
| image_url | 10 | static0.xdaimages.com |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | XDA RSS section slug Allowed values: news, features, reviews, buying-guides, tutorials, editorials, editor-columns, deals, commerce, evergreen, performance, beats, awards, hardware, processor, gpu, storage, monitors, input-devices, laptops, devices, single-board-computers, gaming-handhelds, prebuilt-pc, networking, smart-home, home, other-hardware, headset, cpu-cooler, printer, home-internet, other-computing-devices, phone-reviews, 3d-printing, esp32, home-lab, self-hosting, software, software-and-services, apps, ai-tools, claude, notebooklm, productivity, os, windows, windows-tutorials, linux-hub, linux-tutorials, macos, macos-tutorials, chromeos-tutorials, microsoft-edge, opera, spotify, bing, gaming, gaming-news, gaming-reviews, entertainment, entertainment-segment. | news | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/xda/headlines?section=news" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "news",
"items": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.xda-developers.com/example-article-slug"
}
]
}
}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 XDA top stories API. | |||
| data.section | string | No |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/xda/headlines?section=news" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"