South African policy coverage
Use News24 endpoints to turn south african policy coverage into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Track News24’s public South African news surface with subscriber labels retained on cards and articles.
Extract South African politics, investigations, business and sport from News24 as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
4
Documented params
6
Examples
4
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
4
Methods
GET
Required params
6
Schema refs
4
{
"platform": "News24",
"endpoint": "news24-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/news24/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract South African politics, investigations, business and sport from News24 as structured JSON.
Use News24 endpoints to turn south african policy coverage into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live News24 endpoint catalog — 4 endpoints, 6 documented request parameters, and 4 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
4 documented News24 endpoints, grouped into 4 request families — Article, Headlines and News, plus 1 more.
6 request parameters are documented across those News24 endpoints, 6 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
4 of the 4 News24 endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 4 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
News24 endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 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.
4 hosted MCP tools back the News24 endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/news24/article
/news24/headlines
/news24/news
/news24/sections
Endpoint catalog
/news24/articleReturns public News24 article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Subscriber-only articles return the standfirst as the only paragraph with paywalled set to true.
MCP tool news24_article
/news24/headlinesReturns News24 headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes a path such as `business/markets`, `sport/rugby/springboks` or `politics`, from the 73 listed by `news24-sections`. Each item has a title and URL, and `type` is `subscriber` on cards News24 marks subscriber-only. Summary, author, publication time and image appear when available.
MCP tool news24_headlines
/news24/newsReturns the current News24 top stories, with no parameters. Each item has a title, canonical URL and image. `type` is `subscriber` when News24 marks the story subscriber-only and is omitted for freely readable stories.
MCP tool news24_news
/news24/sectionsLists the 73 News24 sections accepted by `news24-headlines`. Each entry has a `slug` (the URL path under news24.com, which may contain `/`, as in `sport/rugby/springboks`), a display `name` and a page `url`. Top-level groups include `business`, `life`, `opinions`, `southafrica`, `sport` and `world`.
MCP tool news24_sections
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How to scrape News24
News24 is a Media24 South African news publication whose sections span national affairs, economy, investigations and sport. Its four cataloged endpoints have no author-profile operation. That matters when designing a collection: a byline on an article is useful attribution, but there is no separate author archive in this API. News24 labels subscriber stories in both headline cards and article results, and the article endpoint returns only the public standfirst for those pieces.
Read /news24/sections to get the accepted section names. Select a desk for /news24/headlines and keep each card’s subscriber type when estimating what a public reader can actually access.
/news24/news supplies current top stories from the public homepage. Use a collection timestamp and canonical URL so changes in editorial prominence can be compared without counting repeated cards as fresh reporting.
/news24/article returns metadata and public paragraphs for a canonical URL. When paywalled is true, the standfirst is the only returned paragraph. Distinguish that preview from a full body in search indexes and downstream summaries.
FAQ
No. The catalog lists article, headlines, news and sections only. Keep article-level byline metadata where available, but do not construct an author profile from it.
Top-story and section cards can carry type subscriber. An individual subscriber article sets paywalled and provides its public standfirst only, allowing coverage analysis without claiming access to the complete story.
Yes. Keep the subscriber card type from headlines or news and its canonical URL. It is a valid coverage observation, but it should not be represented as a full-text article.