Philippine news research
Use Philstar endpoints to turn philippine news research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Philstar’s section pages and public article archives with language and edition context intact.
Extract Philippine national affairs, business, sports and multilingual local editions from Philstar as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Philstar",
"endpoint": "philstar-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/philstar/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Philippine national affairs, business, sports and multilingual local editions from Philstar as structured JSON.
Use Philstar endpoints to turn philippine news research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Philstar endpoints to turn english and local-language comparison into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Philstar endpoints to turn editorial prominence tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Philstar endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Philstar endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those Philstar endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Philstar endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Philstar 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 Philstar endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/philstar/article
/philstar/author
/philstar/headlines
/philstar/news
/philstar/sections
Endpoint catalog
/philstar/articleReturns public Philstar article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Philstar serves full stories to anonymous readers, so no paywall flag is needed.
MCP tool philstar_article
/philstar/authorReturns one Philstar author's public archive: name, profile photo when set, and the most recent stories on the first page of the archive. Authors are identified by the numeric id in the byline link (philstar.com/authors/<id>/<name>).
MCP tool philstar_author
/philstar/headlinesReturns the current headlines from the first page of one public Philstar section page (Philstar publishes no crawlable feeds, so this reads the section page itself).
MCP tool philstar_headlines
/philstar/newsReturns the current Philstar (Philippine Star) top stories from the public homepage: the latest, trending and featured stories with summary, byline, thumbnail and the publication date encoded in the story URL.
MCP tool philstar_news
/philstar/sectionsReturns the public Philstar editorial section inventory: every English, Filipino (Pilipino Star Ngayon, Pang-Masa) and Cebuano (Banat, The Freeman) section page that lists stories.
MCP tool philstar_sections
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How to scrape Philstar
Philstar is a Philippine news publication within Philstar Media Group. Its section directory spans English coverage and Filipino or Cebuano editions, so a corpus that treats every returned item as English national news will be misleading. Philstar’s headline endpoint reads public section pages because the site does not publish crawlable feeds for them; the general news endpoint reads the homepage’s latest, trending and featured selections. Those sources answer different questions about publication and prominence.
Read /philstar/sections and choose the exact section page accepted by /philstar/headlines. Preserve language and edition identity for Pilipino Star Ngayon, Pang-Masa, Banat or The Freeman rather than blending them into an English-only series.
/philstar/news reads the public homepage mix of latest, trending and featured stories. Record the collection time and deduplicate canonical URLs before treating that display as a count of newly published articles.
Use /philstar/article for public story text. A canonical /authors/ profile URL containing the numeric author ID can be sent to /philstar/author for the public profile and first page of recent stories.
FAQ
Philstar’s documented endpoint reads the section page itself; there is no crawlable publisher feed for those desks. Treat its current first page as a snapshot, not a complete historical archive.
The documented article endpoint reads full stories served to anonymous visitors and does not need a paywall flag. Preserve the canonical source URL and publication date for attribution.
Retain the section page and edition returned by /philstar/sections. The inventory includes English, Filipino and Cebuano pages, and language should be identified from that source context before aggregation.