Nigeria policy monitoring
Use Punch endpoints to turn nigeria policy monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Track Punch’s Nigerian topic pages alongside its broader RSS news stream.
Extract Nigerian national politics, metro reporting, business and public health from Punch as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Punch",
"endpoint": "punch-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/punch/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Nigerian national politics, metro reporting, business and public health from Punch as structured JSON.
Use Punch endpoints to turn nigeria policy monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
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Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Punch endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Punch endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those Punch endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Punch endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Punch 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.
5 hosted MCP tools back the Punch endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/punch/article
/punch/author
/punch/headlines
/punch/news
/punch/sections
Endpoint catalog
/punch/articleReturns a Punch article by canonical `url` (`https://punchng.com/<slug>/`): title, description, publication and update times, section, authors, image and the body `paragraphs`. Punch articles are free to read, so `paywalled` is never set. Video-led stories may have only a short text summary.
MCP tool punch_article
/punch/authorReturns a Punch author's name and their most recent articles (the first archive page, about 30) from a canonical `url` (`https://punchng.com/author/<slug>/`). `total_pages` is the number of archive pages. Punch author pages have no biography, photo or social links, so none are returned. An unknown author returns not-found.
MCP tool punch_author
/punch/headlinesReturns the current stories, about 30, from one Punch topic page. `section` is required and takes a topic slug such as `news`, `politics`, `business`, `sports`, `metro-plus` or `top-stories`; any other value is an invalid-parameter error. Each item has a title and article URL, plus summary, publication time and image URL when the page shows them.
MCP tool punch_headlines
/punch/newsReturns the latest Punch stories from punchng.com: title, article URL, summary, author and publication time. Takes no parameters. Punch labels its times as UTC but publishes them in West Africa Time (UTC+1), and `published_at` is corrected for that one-hour skew.
MCP tool punch_news
/punch/sectionsLists the Punch topic slugs that `punch-headlines` accepts, such as `news`, `politics`, `business` and `sports`. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and the topic page `url`. The list covers top-level topics linked from Punch's navigation or active in the 90 days before 2026-09-25.
MCP tool punch_sections
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How to scrape Punch
Punch is a Nigerian national newspaper whose official RSS directory separates Metro Plus, Columns, Opinion, Politics, Business, Health, Interview, and other feeds. Editorial columns and opinion should be analyzed separately from straight reporting; the publisher also carries sponsored material and stories continued from print, so retain format and provenance when present. The sections endpoint represents the live-verified topic pages accepted by the headline operation—use its returned values rather than guessing a path from the publisher's RSS labels. The author endpoint is modest, returning a name and recent articles rather than a rich profile.
Call /punch/sections and send one returned topic to /punch/headlines. Keep the topic URL or slug in your dataset so metro reporting can be distinguished from national politics.
/punch/news returns fresh public RSS top stories. Use it as a discovery queue, and reconcile repeated canonical URLs with topic-page results before computing article counts.
Pass a canonical story URL to /punch/article for public paragraphs and metadata. /punch/author can list a byline’s recent articles, but its documented response should not be assumed to include a biography or complete archive.
FAQ
Punch headline collection follows live topic pages. The returned inventory tells you which pages the endpoint accepts and helps prevent a guessed topic label from producing an incomplete series.
The author endpoint lists recent public work only. For longitudinal research, discover stories through repeated news and topic snapshots and use the canonical article URL as the stable key.