---
title: "Get IOL article content"
method: GET
path: "/iol/article"
tags: ["IOL"]
---

# Get IOL article content

`GET /iol/article`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/iol/article`
- Auth: API key in header `x-api-key`

Returns an IOL article by `url`, a canonical `iol.co.za` story link. The response has the title, description, section (the deepest in the breadcrumb, such as `Crime and Courts`), authors, lead image, publish and update times, and body `paragraphs`. Section, author, tag and search pages are rejected. `paywalled` is never set.

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- PublicnewsArticleResponseDoc
  - `data` NewsplatformArticleResponse
    - `authors` string[]
    - `description` string
    - `image_url` string
    - `paragraphs` string[]
    - `paywalled` boolean: Paywalled is true when the publisher serves only a teaser of this article to anonymous readers, so Paragraphs is a partial body rather than the full text. It is omitted when the full public body was returned.
    - `published_at` string
    - `section` string
    - `title` string
    - `updated_at` string
    - `url` string

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `404`: Not Found
- `503`: Service Unavailable

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