South African news monitoring
Usa los endpoints de IOL para convertir south african news monitoring en solicitudes API repetibles con inputs documentados y respuestas JSON.
Monitor Independent Online’s South African provincial reporting, politics, BRICS, energy, crime, and sport through five structured endpoints.
Extract IOL’s South African news sections, latest stories, headlines, articles, and author profiles as JSON.
Familias de endpoints
5
Parámetros documentados
9
Ejemplos
5
Snapshot en vivo del catálogo
Endpoints activos
5
Métodos
GET
Parámetros obligatorios
7
Referencias de esquema
5
{
"platform": "IOL",
"endpoint": "iol-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/iol/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Casos de uso
Extract IOL’s South African news sections, latest stories, headlines, articles, and author profiles as JSON.
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Ejecución gestionada
Cada cifra de abajo se lee directamente del catálogo de endpoints en vivo de IOL — 5 endpoints, 9 parámetros de solicitud documentados y 5 esquemas de respuesta publicados — el mismo catálogo contra el que corren Docs y Playground.
5 documented IOL endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those IOL endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 IOL endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
IOL endpoints document their error responses (400, 404 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 IOL endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Mapa de cobertura
/iol/article
/iol/author
/iol/headlines
/iol/news
/iol/sections
Catálogo de endpoints
/iol/sectionsReturns 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.
Herramienta MCP iol_sections
/iol/newsReturns the 30 newest stories from IOL (Independent Online, South Africa), with no parameters. Each item has its title, canonical article URL, short summary, publication time, author byline and lead image.
Herramienta MCP iol_news
/iol/headlinesReturns recent IOL headlines for one section path. `section` is required and takes a value such as `news`, `news/south-africa/gauteng`, `sport/rugby/springboks`, `business/economy` or `entertainment/music`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time and image, plus the author when the outlet names one. Unlisted values are rejected.
Herramienta MCP iol_headlines
/iol/articleReturns an IOL article by `url`, a canonical `iol.co.za` story link. The response has the title, description, section (the deepest in the breadcrumb, such as `Crime and Courts`), authors, lead image, publish and update times, and body `paragraphs`. Section, author, tag and search pages are rejected. `paywalled` is never set.
Herramienta MCP iol_article
/iol/authorReturns an IOL author profile, identified by `slug` (such as `xolile-mtembu`) or a canonical `iol.co.za/authors/<slug>/` `url`; provide exactly one. The response has the name, `role` and `image_url` when present, and up to 25 recent articles with title, URL, summary, section and a `published_date` taken from the article URL. Unknown authors return not found.
Herramienta MCP iol_author
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Cómo hacer scraping de IOL
IOL is a South African current-affairs platform whose catalog documents 123 live section feeds verified on 2026-09-25, including provincial desks and deep sport routes. Keep provincial sections separate in a monitoring job, because a Johannesburg or Cape Town desk has a geographic scope that the national current-affairs feed does not.
Call /iol/sections to select a path such as news/south-africa/gauteng, news/brics, sport/rugby, or sport/cricket.
Use /iol/news for the latest site-wide reporting or /iol/headlines with a precise section path for a province or sport.
Use /iol/article with a canonical URL and /iol/author when a public staff or contributor profile is available.
Preguntas frecuentes
The catalog documents 123 section feeds verified live on 2026-09-25, spanning South African provinces, Africa, BRICS, politics, energy, crime, and extensive sport branches.
Yes. The sections endpoint exposes province-specific paths such as Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and Western Cape for use with headlines.
The documented IOL news feed returns the newest 30 stories with title, URL, summary, publication time, byline, and lead image where available.