Nigerian current-affairs monitoring
Use Vanguard endpoints to turn nigerian current-affairs monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Media & Streaming5 active endpointsapiKey
Vanguard Scraper API
Vanguard is a Nigerian national newspaper. Follow news, politics, business, metro, sport, entertainment, and editorial desks, then search recent feed items by byline for current-affairs research.
Extract Nigerian politics, business, metro reporting, regional news, and opinion from Vanguard with structured article, section, headline, news, and byline-search data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Vanguard coverage
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
Article1
Author1
Headlines1
News1
{
"platform": "Vanguard",
"endpoint": "vanguardng-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/vanguardng/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Workflows that fit Vanguard
Extract Nigerian politics, business, metro reporting, regional news, and opinion from Vanguard with structured article, section, headline, news, and byline-search data.
Vanguard section and headline tracking
Use Vanguard endpoints to turn vanguard section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Article and byline research for Nigeria risk, policy, and economic researchers
Use Vanguard endpoints to turn article and byline research for nigeria risk, policy, and economic researchers into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
How Crawlora handles this platform
Every figure below is read from the live Vanguard endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
Documented endpoint coverage
5 documented Vanguard endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
Published request surface
9 request parameters are documented across those Vanguard endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
Known response shape
5 of the 5 Vanguard 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
Vanguard 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 Vanguard endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
Know what the API can collect before integrating
1 endpoints
Article
/vanguardng/article
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Author
/vanguardng/author
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Headlines
/vanguardng/headlines
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
News
/vanguardng/news
GETapiKey
1 endpoints
Sections
/vanguardng/sections
GETapiKey
Endpoint catalog
Vanguard API endpoints
GETapiKeyexample
/vanguardng/articleGet Vanguard article content
Returns one Vanguard (Nigeria) story by its `url`, a vanguardngr.com link in the `/YYYY/MM/<slug>/` form; section pages and feeds are rejected. The response has the title, description, times, section, authors, lead image and body `paragraphs`. Vanguard has no paywall, so `paywalled` is never set.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 7 of 7 fields returned with a value. published_at: 2026-09-25; section: “Health”.
MCP tool vanguardng_article
url:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/vanguardng/authorFind recent Vanguard articles by byline
Vanguard publishes no author profile pages, so this returns the recent articles in one public feed (site-wide by default, or one section) credited to a byline, matched on the on-page "By <Name>" line or the site's creator field.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 2 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: vanguardngr.com.
MCP tool vanguardng_author
name:querysection:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/vanguardng/headlinesGet Vanguard section headlines
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.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-13; url: vanguardngr.com.
MCP tool vanguardng_headlines
section:queryx-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/vanguardng/newsGet Vanguard top stories
Returns the latest 20 Vanguard (Nigeria) stories with no parameters. Each has a title, URL, summary, publication time and image where available. `author` is the site's account name, often a desk account such as `Nwafor`; use `vanguardng-article` for the on-page byline.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items, 5 fields filled in every item. published_at: 2026-10-13; url: vanguardngr.com.
MCP tool vanguardng_news
x-api-key:header
GETapiKeyexample
/vanguardng/sectionsGet Vanguard sections
Lists the 42 Vanguard sections accepted by `vanguardng-headlines`. Each has a `slug` (nested categories contain a `/`, as in `business/energy`), a display `name` and a feed `url`. `national-news` is the site's News category and `promoted` is sponsored content. Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 42 items, 3 fields filled in every item. name: “News” and 41 other values; url: vanguardngr.com.
MCP tool vanguardng_sections
x-api-key:header
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How to scrape Vanguard
Extract Vanguard data in 4 steps
Vanguard is a Nigerian national newspaper with politics, business, metro, regional news, sport, entertainment, and editorial coverage. Nigeria's federal and state contexts matter for public-affairs research: a Lagos transport issue and a national economic measure can share keywords while involving different authorities. Its `/vanguardng/author` route is a byline search, not a contributor profile: each request scans one 20-item feed, and a miss means the byline was not in that recent window. Preserve the state, institution, section, and byline with each article before aggregating a topic trend. On 2026-10-25 the documented list held 42 slugs, including promoted, editorial and columns plus names like education-2 and romance-an-relationships. The business/energy feed returned 20 items, but only one was dated 2026 (2026-09-04) and the rest ran back to 2024-04-30. Authors were account names (Nwafor, olufemiajasa) rather than bylines, the real byline sometimes sat inside the summary ("By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja"), and summaries end with WordPress boilerplate.
- Step 1
Check a section's newest date
business/energy returned one 2026 item among 20, so a sub-section can be close to dormant. Read the newest published_at before treating a slug as a live monitor.
- Step 2
Do not use the author field as a byline
The author value is a WordPress account name. When a summary begins By <name>, <city>, parse that as the byline, and strip the trailing "The post ... appeared first on Vanguard News" line.
- Step 3
Label promoted and opinion slugs
The list includes promoted, editorial, opinion, columns and viewpoints. Keep them apart from national-news and business when counting reported stories.
- Step 4
Look up a byline, not a profile
For byline discovery, call /vanguardng/author with a name and optional supported section; it scans one 20-item feed and returns recent matching stories, not a biography or complete archive. Preserve the state, institution, section and byline with each article.
Agent skills
Use Vanguard data from your coding agent
Install a Crawlora agent skill and your agent can pull Vanguard data as JSON through the documented API, without writing a scraper. These skills cover Vanguard:
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FAQ
Scraping Vanguard: common questions
Does Vanguard's author endpoint return contributor profiles?
No. It is a byline search, not a contributor profile: each request scans one 20-item feed, and a miss means the byline was not in that recent window.
Why is the business/energy feed mostly old?
On 2026-10-25 it returned 20 items and only one was from 2026, with the rest dating back to April 2024. Check each slug's newest date.
What does the author value mean in Vanguard items?
It was an account name such as olufemiajasa or Nwafor. The reporter's name, when present, appears at the start of the summary.