Australian public-affairs research
Use ABC News Australia endpoints to turn australian public-affairs research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Build an Australian public-interest news feed spanning national affairs, regional communities, Indigenous reporting, science, rural issues, and emergency information.
Collect ABC News Australia headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Covers AU regions.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "ABC News Australia",
"endpoint": "abcau-headlines",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/abcau/headlines",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Collect ABC News Australia headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Covers AU regions.
Use ABC News Australia endpoints to turn australian public-affairs research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use ABC News Australia endpoints to turn regional and rural issue monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use ABC News Australia endpoints to turn emergency and science news discovery into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live ABC News Australia endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented ABC News Australia endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those ABC News Australia endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 ABC News Australia endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
ABC News Australia endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 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.
5 hosted MCP tools back the ABC News Australia endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/abcau/article
/abcau/author
/abcau/headlines
/abcau/news
/abcau/sections
Endpoint catalog
/abcau/headlinesReturns current headlines for one ABC News Australia section. `section` is required and takes one of 15 slugs, including `justin`, `politics`, `rural`, `analysis-and-opinion` and `australia`. Each item has a title and URL, and may also carry a summary, author, publication time and image.
MCP tool abcau_headlines
/abcau/newsReturns the current ABC News Australia top stories, with no input needed. Each item has a title and canonical URL, and may also carry a summary, author, publication time and image.
MCP tool abcau_news
/abcau/sectionsLists the 15 ABC News Australia section slugs accepted by `abcau-headlines`, from `justin` and `world` to `backstory` and `australia`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` (for example `Just In`) and the section's page `url`.
MCP tool abcau_sections
/abcau/articleReturns an ABC News Australia article by `url`, a canonical `abc.net.au` address in the form `/news/<date>/<slug>/<id>`: title, description, publication time, section, authors, image and the body `paragraphs`. Rolling live-blog posts, whose slug ends `-live-blog`, return an error instead of partial content.
MCP tool abcau_article
/abcau/authorReturns an ABC News Australia author profile from `url`, a canonical `https://www.abc.net.au/news/<slug>/<id>` address: name, `biography`, `image_url` and recent articles. Not every author has a headshot or biography, and wire or staff bylines often have neither.
MCP tool abcau_author
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How to scrape ABC News Australia
ABC News has a broad national and regional reporting footprint. Its public routes let you retain the section context that distinguishes rural, Indigenous, environment, and general-news stories. The Just In feed mixes domestic and international stories, so use Rural, Indigenous, Environment, or the relevant regional section when the question is narrower. Its 2026-09-26 headlines included NRLW finals and a Strait of Hormuz proposal, illustrating why a general feed alone does not identify the Australian policy stories a researcher may need. Retain each article's section and publication date, then compare a regional report with a later national follow-up before treating them as independent events. A pull on 2026-10-27 listed 15 sections; the justin feed carried title, URL, time and image only, while the cross-section news route carried summaries and some bylines but no images.
The sections route lists 15 slugs, from justin (Just In) and world to australia, politics, rural, analysis-and-opinion and backstory.
On 2026-10-30 the justin section returned 25 headlines with images but no bylines or summaries, while world returned 23 with images on all, summaries on 10 and a byline on 1. The cross-section news route had 25 stories from 2026-10-29 18:00 to 2026-10-30 04:40 UTC with bylines on 15, summaries on 25 and no images, so check each field per row.
Article calls take a canonical abc.net.au address in the form /news/<date>/<slug>/<id> and return title, description, publication time, section, authors, image and body paragraphs.
The author route takes a /news/<slug>/<id> profile URL and returns name, biography, image_url and recent articles; not every author has a headshot or biography.
justin returned 23 stories across about four hours (2026-10-26 23:39 UTC to 2026-10-27 03:53) with images but no byline or summary, and science returned 27 with a summary on only 8. The news route returned 23 stories with summaries on all, bylines on 12 and no images.
No single route returned every field, so join a section pull to the news route or the article route by URL when you need byline, summary and image together.
Agent Skills
安装 Crawlora agent skill，你的智能体即可通过文档化的 API 以 JSON 形式获取 ABC News Australia 数据，无需编写爬虫。以下 skill 覆盖 ABC News Australia：
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-researchFAQ
A canonical abc.net.au address shaped /news/<date>/<slug>/<id>.
Just In, the rolling latest-news section among the 15 slugs.
No. Not every author has a headshot or biography.
No. On 2026-10-27 its 23 stories had summaries on all and bylines on 12, but no image field.