Malaysian news intelligence
Use The Star endpoints to turn malaysian news intelligence into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
The Star Malaysia is Star Media Group's Malaysian news title. Follow Malaysia, nation, business, metro, lifestyle, sport, and regional desks through structured public feeds and article records for Malaysian news intelligence.
Extract Malaysian politics, business, local affairs, and Southeast Asian news from The Star Malaysia with structured article, section, headline, news.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "The Star",
"endpoint": "thestarmy-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/thestarmy/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Malaysian politics, business, local affairs, and Southeast Asian news from The Star Malaysia with structured article, section, headline, news.
Use The Star endpoints to turn malaysian news intelligence into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Star endpoints to turn the star section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Star endpoints to turn article and byline research for malaysia market, policy, and asean researchers into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live The Star endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented The Star endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those The Star endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 The Star endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
The Star endpoints document their error responses (400, 403, 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 The Star endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/thestarmy/article
/thestarmy/author
/thestarmy/headlines
/thestarmy/news
/thestarmy/sections
Endpoint catalog
/thestarmy/articleReturns public The Star (Malaysia) story metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical story URL. Metered and premium stories return only the public teaser paragraphs the server shows anonymous readers, flagged with paywalled; a story with no readable teaser returns a permission error.
MCP tool thestarmy_article
/thestarmy/authorReturns one The Star (Malaysia) byline's public author page: display name, the public byline email, and their most recent stories.
MCP tool thestarmy_author
/thestarmy/headlinesReturns the current stories of one The Star (Malaysia) section page, usually 10 and up to 100 on column-style sections. `section` is required, for example `news-nation`, `latest-business`, `sport-badminton` or `latest-food`. Items have a title and URL, and when the page shows them a `type`, summary, byline, image and publication time. Older stories are not paginated.
MCP tool thestarmy_headlines
/thestarmy/newsReturns the current top stories on The Star (Malaysia) home page. It takes no parameters. Each item has a title and canonical URL, plus a short section label in `type`, a summary and a byline when the page shows them. `published_at` is omitted here; the section headlines endpoint carries it.
MCP tool thestarmy_news
/thestarmy/sectionsLists the 94 The Star (Malaysia) sections that returned at least one story to an anonymous reader when checked on 2026-09-25, and that the headlines endpoint accepts. Examples are `news-latest`, `latest-nation`, `business-smebiz` and `sport-football`. Each entry has a `slug`, a `name` and the section page `url`.
MCP tool thestarmy_sections
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How to scrape The Star
The Star is Star Media Group's Malaysian news title, combining national politics, business, metro, lifestyle, sports, and regional Southeast Asian coverage. A market dataset should keep Malaysia-specific stories separate from wider ASEAN developments. The section directory offers editorial scope, and the article text supplies the state, agency, company, or neighboring country that gives each headline its actual geography.
Call /thestarmy/sections to inspect the publisher's current taxonomy. Inspect Nation, Metro, Business, and regional sections before selecting a feed. A local council item may be relevant to one Malaysian state rather than the whole market.
Use /thestarmy/headlines for a selected section and /thestarmy/news for the broader current stream. Collect section headlines on a consistent schedule and retain the section label. Business coverage can move between national policy and individual company stories.
Pass a canonical public URL to /thestarmy/article and use /thestarmy/author for the named contributor when available. Open the article and contributor record to capture names, institutions, and publication context. Use the article's stated location before adding state or ASEAN tags.
FAQ
Start with national and metro or local feeds, then read each article for the state, city, and responsible institution. Feed membership helps discovery, but the full story is needed to assign a reliable geographic label.
Keep country and topic tags independently. A story published by a Malaysian outlet may concern Singapore or another neighbor; do not infer Malaysian location merely from the publisher's home market.
Business and metro coverage can surface companies, but read the article for the entity's actual role. A quoted company, market subject, and advertiser are different relationships and should not be conflated.