Sri Lanka News API

There are 15 news sources being monitored from Sri Lanka. Daily, over 48 news items are added.

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

Historically, you can search news from Sri Lanka starting January 1st, 2022.



API Examples of how to work with news from Sri Lanka

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

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

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