SCMP API Documentation

Use Crawlora's SCMP API endpoints to extract supported public SCMP data as structured JSON. This documentation covers 4 active endpoints including Get an SCMP article's content, Get an SCMP author/reporter profile, Get the latest stories in an SCMP section, List SCMP sections. 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.

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Quick start

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.

Base URL: https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1
Auth header: x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY
Primary endpoint: GET /scmp/article
Credit cost: 2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/scmp/article" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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SCMP API endpoints

These endpoint cards are generated from the active Crawlora endpoint catalog, including method, path, auth mode, credit cost, parameter summary, docs, and Playground links.

GET/scmp/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get an SCMP article's content

Returns one public South China Morning Post article's metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. `content_locked` and `paywall_types` are the upstream's own restricted-access signals for that article, reported exactly as the site returns them; the body returned here is the same one the site's own page serves to an anonymous visitor. An article whose page genuinely withholds its body is reported as a restricted-access error instead of a hollow or truncated response.

Required params: url:query

Get an SCMP article's content documentation Try Get an SCMP article's content in Playground

GET/scmp/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get an SCMP author/reporter profile

Returns one South China Morning Post author/reporter's public profile -- name, role, biography, areas of expertise, languages, location, headshot, and contact/social links -- plus their recent articles, from a canonical author URL.

Required params: url:query

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GET/scmp/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get the latest stories in an SCMP section

Returns the current article listing for one South China Morning Post section: each story's title, canonical URL, summary, byline, publication time, and lead image. Section must be a slug returned by /scmp/sections.

Required params: section:query

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GET/scmp/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request

List SCMP sections

Lists every South China Morning Post section accepted by /scmp/headlines, with its slug, display name, feed URL, and (for a subsection) its parent section's slug and name. Values: `news`, `business`, `property`, `tech`, `lifestyle`, `culture`, `sport`, `postmag`, `style`, `this-week-in-asia`, `cooking`, `hong-kong`, `china`, `asia`, `world`, `people-culture`, `china-politics`, `china-diplomacy`, `china-economy`, `hong-kong-politics`, `hong-kong-economy`, `hong-kong-health-environment`, `hong-kong-education`, `world-us-canada`, `world-europe`, `world-middle-east`, `world-americas`, `world-africa`, `world-russia-central-asia`, `asia-australasia`, `asia-diplomacy`, `asia-east-asia`, `asia-southeast-asia`, `asia-south-asia`, `business-companies`, `business-investor-relations`, `business-global-economy`, `business-money-wealth`, `opinion-comment`, `opinion-harrys-view`, `opinion-blogs`, `opinion-polls`, `opinion-letters`, `property-hong-kong-china`, `property-international`, `tech-big-tech`, `tech-enterprises`, `tech-innovation`, `tech-leaders-founders`, `tech-science-research`, `lifestyle-fashion-beauty`, `lifestyle-travel-leisure`, `lifestyle-motoring`, `lifestyle-food-drink`, `lifestyle-health-wellness`, `lifestyle-watches`, `culture-books`, `culture-music`, `culture-film-tv`, `culture-arts`, `sport-hong-kong`, `sport-china`, `sport-golf`, `sport-racing`, `sport-rugby`, `sport-football`, `sport-tennis`, `sport-other`, `sport-boxing`, `sport-hong-kong-sevens`, `postmag-culture`, `postmag-travel`, `postmag-food-drink`, `postmag-passions`, `postmag-wellness`, `postmag-design-interiors`, `style-luxury`, `style-fashion`, `style-beauty`, `style-people`, `style-lifestyle`, `this-week-in-asia-politics`, `this-week-in-asia-geopolitics`, `this-week-in-asia-economics`, `this-week-in-asia-society`, `this-week-in-asia-opinion`, `this-week-in-asia-asia-buzz`, `this-week-in-asia-people`.

Required params: None

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Endpoint reference table

Endpoint	API path	Method	Credits	Required params	Docs	Playground
Get an SCMP article's content	/scmp/article	GET	2 credits/request	url:query	View docs	Try endpoint
Get an SCMP author/reporter profile	/scmp/author	GET	2 credits/request	url:query	View docs	Try endpoint
Get the latest stories in an SCMP section	/scmp/headlines	GET	1 credit/request	section:query	View docs	Try endpoint
List SCMP sections	/scmp/sections	GET	1 credit/request	None	View docs	Try endpoint

Related Crawlora API pages

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