API Reference
Use Crawlora's Vanguard API endpoints to extract supported public Vanguard data as structured JSON. This documentation covers 5 active endpoints including Get Vanguard article content, Find recent Vanguard articles by byline, Get Vanguard section headlines, Get Vanguard 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, name, 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/vanguardng/article" \
-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.
/vanguardng/articleapiKey2 credits/requestReturns public Vanguard article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Vanguard has no paywall.
Required params: url:query
/vanguardng/authorapiKey2 credits/requestVanguard 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.
Required params: name:query
/vanguardng/headlinesapiKey1 credit/requestReturns fresh headlines from one public Vanguard section feed.
Required params: section:query
/vanguardng/newsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns fresh Vanguard (Nigeria) stories from the public site-wide RSS feed.
Required params: None
/vanguardng/sectionsapiKey1 credit/requestReturns the public Vanguard editorial section inventory used by vanguardng-headlines: every category with a live feed.
Required params: None
| Endpoint | API path | Method | Credits | Required params | Docs | Playground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Get Vanguard article content | /vanguardng/article | GET | 2 credits/request | url:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Find recent Vanguard articles by byline | /vanguardng/author | GET | 2 credits/request | name:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get Vanguard section headlines | /vanguardng/headlines | GET | 1 credit/request | section:query | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get Vanguard top stories | /vanguardng/news | GET | 1 credit/request | None | View docs | Try endpoint |
| Get Vanguard sections | /vanguardng/sections | GET | 1 credit/request | None | View docs | Try endpoint |