GET
/iol/articleapiKey2 credits/requestGet IOL article content
Returns public IOL article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL.
Required params: url:query
API Reference
Use Crawlora's IOL API endpoints to extract supported public IOL data as structured JSON. This documentation covers 5 active endpoints including Get IOL article content, Get an IOL author profile, Get IOL section headlines, Get IOL top stories, and related APIs. Developers can use these endpoints for monitoring, enrichment, research dashboards, internal data pipelines, and agent-native workflows without maintaining platform-specific scraping code. Each endpoint page documents authentication, request parameters such as url, section, cURL examples, response examples, response schemas, errors, credit cost, and Playground testing. Send requests to the Crawlora API with an x-api-key header, review usage and plan limits on pricing, and test safe sample requests in Playground before moving the workflow into production.
Choose an endpoint, send an authenticated request with the x-api-key header, and inspect the normalized JSON response. The examples below use the public Crawlora API base URL and the same endpoint catalog used by Playground.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/iol/sections" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"These endpoint cards are generated from the active Crawlora endpoint catalog, including method, path, auth mode, credit cost, parameter summary, docs, and Playground links.
/iol/articleapiKey2 credits/requestReturns public IOL article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL.
Required params: url:query
/iol/authorapiKey2 credits/requestReturns one IOL author's public profile: name, role, photo, and the recent articles listed on their page.
Required params: None
/iol/headlinesapiKey1 credit/requestReturns fresh headlines from one public IOL section feed.
Required params: section:query
/iol/newsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns fresh IOL (Independent Online, South Africa) stories from the public news feed.
Required params: None
/iol/sectionsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns 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.
Required params: None
| Endpoint | API path | Method | Credits | Required params | Docs | Playground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Get IOL article content | /iol/article | GET | 2 credits/request | url:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get an IOL author profile | /iol/author | GET | 2 credits/request | None | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get IOL section headlines | /iol/headlines | GET | 1 credit/request | section:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get IOL top stories | /iol/news | GET | 1 credit/request | None | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get IOL sections | /iol/sections | GET | 1 credit/request | None | View docs | Try endpoint |