South Africa News API

There are 22 news sources being monitored from South Africa. Daily, over 62 news items are added.

The country code for South Africa is za. For every API endpoint that asks for source-country, just put za to retrieve news from South Africa. And the language code of South Africa is en, use this two-letter code for the language parameter.

Historically, you can search news from South Africa starting January 1st, 2022.



API Examples of how to work with news from South Africa

Here are some examples how you can get breaking news, search by category, and get front pages for South Africa. Be sure to check out the in-depth documentation as each API offers many different parameters to explore.

Get today's breaking news from South Africa
source-country=za
GET
https://api.worldnewsapi.com/top-news?source-country=za
See the full documentation of how to get news headlines.
Get live news from South Africa
source-country=za
GET
https://api.worldnewsapi.com/search-news?source-country=za
See the full documentation of how to search news.
Get news from South Africa in the last week for the category politics
source-country=za categories=politics
GET
https://api.worldnewsapi.com/search-news?source-country=za&categories=politics
See the full documentation of how to search news by category.
Get front pages from news papers in South Africa
source-country=za date=2024-07-09
GET
https://api.worldnewsapi.com/retrieve-front-page?source-country=za&date=2024-07-09
See the full documentation of how to get newspaper front pages.

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