South African news monitoring
Usa los endpoints de IOL para convertir south african news monitoring en solicitudes API repetibles con inputs documentados y respuestas JSON.
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Medios y streaming5 endpoints activosapiKey
IOL Scraper API
Monitor Independent Online’s South African provincial reporting, politics, BRICS, energy, crime, and sport through five structured endpoints.
Extract IOL’s South African news sections, latest stories, headlines, articles, and author profiles as JSON.
Familias de endpoints
5
Parámetros documentados
9
Ejemplos
5
Snapshot en vivo del catálogo
Cobertura de IOL
Endpoints activos
5
Métodos
GET
Parámetros obligatorios
7
Referencias de esquema
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "IOL",
"endpoint": "iol-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/iol/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Casos de uso
Workflows que encajan con IOL
Extract IOL’s South African news sections, latest stories, headlines, articles, and author profiles as JSON.
Provincial reporting analysis
Usa los endpoints de IOL para convertir provincial reporting analysis en solicitudes API repetibles con inputs documentados y respuestas JSON.
Rugby and cricket tracking
Usa los endpoints de IOL para convertir rugby and cricket tracking en solicitudes API repetibles con inputs documentados y respuestas JSON.
Ejecución gestionada
Cómo maneja Crawlora esta plataforma
Cada cifra de abajo se lee directamente del catálogo de endpoints en vivo de IOL — 5 endpoints, 9 parámetros de solicitud documentados y 5 esquemas de respuesta publicados — el mismo catálogo contra el que corren Docs y Playground.
Documented endpoint coverage
5 documented IOL endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
9 request parameters are documented across those IOL endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 IOL endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Documented failure modes
IOL endpoints document their error responses (400, 404 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
Agent-callable MCP tools
5 hosted MCP tools back the IOL endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Mapa de cobertura
Descubre qué puede recopilar la API antes de integrarla
1 endpoints
Article
/iol/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/iol/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/iol/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/iol/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/iol/sections
GETapiKey
Catálogo de endpoints
Endpoints de la API de IOL
GETapiKeyexample
/iol/sectionsGet IOL sections
Returns the verified IOL section inventory accepted by the headlines endpoint: news, sport, business, lifestyle, entertainment, technology, motoring, travel and opinion, their sub-sections, provincial news and the sister-title feeds.
Herramienta MCP iol_sections
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/iol/newsGet IOL top stories
Returns the 30 newest stories from IOL (Independent Online, South Africa), with no parameters. Each item has its title, canonical article URL, short summary, publication time, author byline and lead image.
Herramienta MCP iol_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/iol/headlinesGet IOL section headlines
Returns recent IOL headlines for one section path. `section` is required and takes a value such as `news`, `news/south-africa/gauteng`, `sport/rugby/springboks`, `business/economy` or `entertainment/music`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time and image, plus the author when the outlet names one. Unlisted values are rejected.
Herramienta MCP iol_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/iol/articleGet IOL article content
Returns an IOL article by `url`, a canonical `iol.co.za` story link. The response has the title, description, section (the deepest in the breadcrumb, such as `Crime and Courts`), authors, lead image, publish and update times, and body `paragraphs`. Section, author, tag and search pages are rejected. `paywalled` is never set.
Herramienta MCP iol_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/iol/authorGet an IOL author profile
Returns an IOL author profile, identified by `slug` (such as `xolile-mtembu`) or a canonical `iol.co.za/authors/<slug>/` `url`; provide exactly one. The response has the name, `role` and `image_url` when present, and up to 25 recent articles with title, URL, summary, section and a `published_date` taken from the article URL. Unknown authors return not found.
Herramienta MCP iol_author
slug:queryurl:queryx-api-key:header
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Cómo hacer scraping de IOL
Extrae datos de IOL en 8 pasos
IOL is a South African current-affairs platform whose catalog documents 123 live section feeds verified on 2026-09-25, including provincial desks and deep sport routes. Keep provincial sections separate in a monitoring job, because a Johannesburg or Cape Town desk has a geographic scope that the national current-affairs feed does not. A pull on 2026-10-27 listed 123 nested sections, and bylines were present on only about half of the rows in the news feed. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 123-slug section list and the cross-section feed.
- Paso 1
Discover provincial or sport routes
Call /iol/sections to select a path such as news/south-africa/gauteng, news/brics, sport/rugby, or sport/cricket.
- Paso 2
Pull the appropriate feed
Use /iol/news for the latest site-wide reporting or /iol/headlines with a precise section path for a province or sport.
- Paso 3
Read the source article
Use /iol/article with a canonical URL and /iol/author when a public staff or contributor profile is available.
- Paso 4
Navigate the nested slugs
Slugs include news, news/africa, news/brics, news/crime-and-courts, news/education and news/energy. Pass them with the slash as listed, and keep the slug with each story.
- Paso 5
Plan for partial bylines
news returned 30 stories from 2026-10-26 09:00 UTC to 2026-10-27 03:50 with summaries and images on all but a byline on only 16, and the news route had bylines on 17 of 30.
- Paso 6
Watch slow slugs
entertainment/events returned 30 stories from 2025-09-16 to 2026-10-23, about thirteen months, so event slugs need long intervals.
- Paso 7
Start from news and 122 more slugs
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 123 slugs, among them news, news/africa, news/brics, news/crime-and-courts, news/education, news/energy, news/environment, news/feel-good. Send slugs verbatim and keep the slug with each record, since a story can appear under more than one of them.
- Paso 8
Treat 30 rows as 15 hours of news
The cross-section news route returned 30 stories from 2026-10-26 10:19 UTC to 2026-10-27 03:50 UTC, with bylines on 17 of 30, summaries on 30 of 30 and images on 30 of 30. Treat it as a recent strip and fetch section feeds or articles for fuller fields.
Agent Skills
Usa datos de IOL desde tu agente de código
Instala un agent skill de Crawlora y tu agente obtiene datos de IOL como JSON mediante la API documentada, sin escribir un scraper. Estos skills cubren IOL:
News media research
Researches public news from international, regional, business, technology, sports, science, and entertainment publishers through the Crawlora API —…
npx skills add github.com/Crawlora-org/crawlora-skills --skill news-media-research
Preguntas frecuentes
Scraping de IOL: preguntas frecuentes
How broad is IOL’s supported taxonomy?
The catalog documents 123 section feeds verified live on 2026-09-25, spanning South African provinces, Africa, BRICS, politics, energy, crime, and extensive sport branches.
Can I follow a province rather than national news?
Yes. The sections endpoint exposes province-specific paths such as Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and Western Cape for use with headlines.
What does the latest feed contain?
The documented IOL news feed returns the newest 30 stories with title, URL, summary, publication time, byline, and lead image where available.
Why do some IOL stories lack an author?
Only 16 of 30 news stories had a byline on 2026-10-27. Use the article route.