Pakistan provincial-news monitoring
Use Dawn endpoints to turn pakistan provincial-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Follow Pakistan's public affairs, provincial reporting, business, South Asian news, foreign affairs, and cricket from an English-language national newspaper.
Collect Dawn headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Pakistan news.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Dawn",
"endpoint": "dawn-headlines",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/dawn/headlines",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Collect Dawn headlines, sections, and articles through 5 documented Crawlora endpoints, including an author-related route. Pakistan news.
Use Dawn endpoints to turn pakistan provincial-news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Dawn endpoints to turn south asia affairs research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Dawn endpoints to turn cricket and business tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Dawn endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Dawn endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those Dawn endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Dawn endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Dawn 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 Dawn endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/dawn/article
/dawn/author
/dawn/headlines
/dawn/news
/dawn/sections
Endpoint catalog
/dawn/headlinesReturns the latest Dawn headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `pakistan`, `pakistan-sindh`, `world-south-asia`, `business-finance`, `sport-cricket`, `opinion` or `prism`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time and, when the outlet provides one, image.
MCP tool dawn_headlines
/dawn/newsReturns the current top stories from Dawn, the Pakistani newspaper. Each item has its title, URL, summary, publication time and, when the outlet provides one, image. Takes no parameters; use `dawn-headlines` for a single section.
MCP tool dawn_news
/dawn/sectionsReturns the complete public Dawn section inventory (Pakistan provinces, World, Business, Sport, Opinion, Technology, Newspaper, Magazines, and Prism) accepted by /dawn/headlines.
MCP tool dawn_sections
/dawn/articleReturns one Dawn article by its canonical `url` in the form `https://www.dawn.com/news/<id>/<slug>`. The response has the title, description, publish and update times, section, authors, lead image and body `paragraphs`. Blocked or malformed pages return an upstream error.
MCP tool dawn_article
/dawn/authorReturns one Dawn byline's public profile (name and biography, when Dawn publishes one) and their recent articles from a canonical author URL.
MCP tool dawn_author
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How to scrape Dawn
Dawn's province-level public sections make it possible to map reporting to Pakistan's regional context rather than treating every story as national. Dawn's Pakistan sections distinguish Balochistan, Islamabad Capital Territory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA, Punjab, and Sindh. A 2026-09-26 report on a DI Khan suicide blast illustrates why province-level context matters. Start with the relevant regional feed, then fetch full articles and retain place names, dates, and canonical links. South Asia, business and finance, and cricket sections should remain separate when measuring coverage; a national headline feed alone can conceal those editorial distinctions.
Select Pakistan, a province, South Asia, business, or sport-cricket.
Use headlines or news for a section feed.
Use article and author endpoints to retain source and byline details.
FAQ
Yes. Its public feed includes Balochistan, Islamabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA, Punjab, and Sindh sections.
The 5-endpoint integration returns the public data documented for each Dawn route. Article, headline, news, and section feeds vary by publisher; an author-related route is also listed, and its behavior is platform-specific.