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Try the The Sydney Morning Herald sections API

Lists every Sydney Morning Herald section accepted by /smh/headlines (96 sections from the site's own section menu), each with its slug, display name, and public section-front URL.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 96 sections; 3 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /smh/sections
Fields with a value in every checked item: slug, name, url

Sample value profiles: name: “Sydney” and 95 other values; url: smh.com.au.

Request: GET /smh/sections
Cost: 1 credit/request
Auth: apiKey

The Sydney Morning Herald sections API documentation Sydney Morning Herald platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/smh/sections' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

No request parameters

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "sections": [
      {
        "slug": "politics/federal",
        "name": "Politics / Federal",
        "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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GET /smh/sections

Get The Sydney Morning Herald sections

Lists every Sydney Morning Herald section accepted by /smh/headlines (96 sections from the site's own section menu), each with its slug, display name, and public section-front URL.

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{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "sections": [
      {
        "slug": "politics/federal",
        "name": "Politics / Federal",
        "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint Playground

Try the The Sydney Morning Herald sections API

Lists every Sydney Morning Herald section accepted by /smh/headlines (96 sections from the site's own section menu), each with its slug, display name, and public section-front URL.

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 96 sections; 3 fields had a value in every checked item.

Observed request: GET /smh/sections
Fields with a value in every checked item: slug, name, url

Sample value profiles: name: “Sydney” and 95 other values; url: smh.com.au.

Request: GET /smh/sections
Cost: 1 credit/request
Auth: apiKey

The Sydney Morning Herald sections API documentation Sydney Morning Herald platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/smh/sections' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

No request parameters

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "sections": [
      {
        "slug": "politics/federal",
        "name": "Politics / Federal",
        "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal"
      }
    ]
  }
}

More The Sydney Morning Herald endpoints

Get The Sydney Morning Herald article content Get a Sydney Morning Herald journalist profile Get The Sydney Morning Herald section headlines Get The Sydney Morning Herald top stories

The sample response, schema and code snippets below work without an account. Sending a live request needs an API key.

Set up API key Endpoint docs

Endpoint

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1 shown

Group

Method

Auth

Endpoint

GETapiKey1 credit/requestpublicnews.sectionsResponseDocThe Sydney Morning Herald

GET /smh/sections

Get The Sydney Morning Herald sections

Lists every Sydney Morning Herald section accepted by /smh/headlines (96 sections from the site's own section menu), each with its slug, display name, and public section-front URL.

API key required. Paste a full key or rotate one from the API Keys page.

Set up API key

View docs

API key

API key required for live requests. Your key is only used to send requests from this Playground.

not configured

Active Playground key: not configured

Manage API keys in Console

Add an API key to send a live request.

If an active API key is configured, Copy cURL includes it. Share links never include API keys.

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Sample responseGET

Shown before your first request. Add an API key and send a request to see the live response, status, latency, and headers.

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "sections": [
      {
        "slug": "politics/federal",
        "name": "Politics / Federal",
        "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal"
      }
    ]
  }
}