ABC News API endpoint
Returns an ABC News author's profile: name, job title/biography when the page carries one, and social links, from a canonical author URL. Does not include a list of the author's recent articles.
/abcnews/authorQuery parameter: url is a canonical HTTPS abcnews.com/author/<slug> URL. Returns the author's profile: name, job title/biography when the page carries one, and social links.
This endpoint does not return a list of the author's recent articles, unlike this API's other news-author endpoints.
| Field | Filled in, of 1 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| label | 1 | |
| url | 1 | twitter.com |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical ABC News author URL | https://abcnews.com/author/benjamin_siegel | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/abcnews/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.com%2Fauthor%2Fbenjamin_siegel" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://abcnews.com/author/example_author",
"name": "Example Author",
"info": [
{
"label": "X",
"url": "https://twitter.com/ExampleAuthor"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.abcNewsAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | abcnews.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.biography | array | No | ||||
| data.info | array | No | ||||
| data.info[].label | string | No | ||||
| data.info[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.job_title | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.url | string | No |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/abcnews/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.com%2Fauthor%2Fbenjamin_siegel" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"