Southeast Asian policy monitoring
Use Straits Times endpoints to turn southeast asian policy monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
The Straits Times is SPH Media Trust's Singapore news title. Follow Singapore, Asia, world, business, sport, lifestyle, and opinion feeds through structured public feeds and article records for Southeast Asian policy monitoring.
Extract Singapore public affairs, the economy, ASEAN reporting, and global news from The Straits Times with structured article, section, headline, news.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Straits Times",
"endpoint": "straitstimes-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/straitstimes/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Singapore public affairs, the economy, ASEAN reporting, and global news from The Straits Times with structured article, section, headline, news.
Use Straits Times endpoints to turn southeast asian policy monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Straits Times endpoints to turn straits times section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Straits Times endpoints to turn article and byline research for singapore, asean, and regional-business researchers into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Straits Times endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Straits Times endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those Straits Times endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Straits Times endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Straits Times 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 Straits Times endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/straitstimes/article
/straitstimes/author
/straitstimes/headlines
/straitstimes/news
/straitstimes/sections
Endpoint catalog
/straitstimes/articleReturns public The Straits Times article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. A subscriber-only article returns only its publicly served teaser paragraphs with paywalled set to true.
MCP tool straitstimes_article
/straitstimes/authorReturns a The Straits Times author's profile by `url`, a canonical `straitstimes.com/authors/<slug>` link: name, email when the author's page publishes one, and recent articles with title, URL, summary, author, image, `type` and publication time.
MCP tool straitstimes_author
/straitstimes/headlinesReturns the current headlines for one The Straits Times section. `section` is required and takes a slug such as `singapore`, `singapore/housing`, `asia/se-asia`, `business/economy`, `sport/formula-one` or `breaking-news`. Items carry the title and URL. Top-level sections such as `singapore` and `business` add summary and publication time; subsection pages such as `singapore/housing` add an image when shown.
MCP tool straitstimes_headlines
/straitstimes/newsReturns the current top stories from The Straits Times. It takes no parameters. Each item has its title, URL and, where the outlet gives them, a summary, author, publication time, image URL and `type`. Use the headlines endpoint for one section.
MCP tool straitstimes_news
/straitstimes/sectionsLists The Straits Times section slugs that the headlines endpoint accepts, including nested ones such as `singapore/politics`, `asia/east-asia`, `world/europe`, `life/food`, `business/invest`, `sport/tennis`, `tech` and `breaking-news`. Each entry has a `slug`, display `name` and `url`.
MCP tool straitstimes_sections
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How to scrape Straits Times
The Straits Times, a Singapore title of SPH Media Trust, covers Singapore public affairs, the economy, Asia, world news, business, sport, and lifestyle. Its Singapore and regional desks can illuminate the same issue at different scales. For an ASEAN policy or business study, retain both the publisher's section and each article's country focus so cross-border reporting does not get mislabeled as domestic Singapore news.
Call /straitstimes/sections to inspect the publisher's current taxonomy. Map Singapore, Asia, world, business, and opinion feeds. Choose a country-aware section before gathering articles about trade, security, or public policy.
Use /straitstimes/headlines for a selected section and /straitstimes/news for the broader current stream. Take dated headline snapshots for Singapore and the relevant regional desk, then compare them using article country tags rather than section names alone.
Pass a canonical public URL to /straitstimes/article for public article text and metadata; subscriber-only stories may return only a teaser. Use /straitstimes/author for the contributor record when available. Identify the cited government, company, and jurisdiction from the returned text, and preserve any update time.
Deduplicate stories by canonical URL, keep the collection date and publisher section, and retain the article's original publication time. For Southeast Asian policy monitoring, compare like editorial formats and geographic scopes rather than treating every item in the latest feed as equivalent.
FAQ
Yes. Use the publisher's section routes for initial filtering and verify the main country in each article body. A Singapore business piece may discuss ASEAN markets, while an Asia item may still have direct Singapore implications.
Store the section slug, canonical URL, publication date, author, and article-level country or agency tags. Revisit current feeds for fresh stories, but do not silently overwrite an earlier dated snapshot.