Billboard API endpoint
Returns a Billboard author's byline metadata, biography, and recent articles (sourced from the author's own public RSS feed) from a canonical author URL.
/billboard/authorQuery parameters:
url (required): a canonical https://www.billboard.com/author/<slug>/ URL.job_title, bio and image_url reflect whatever Billboard's own byline page shows for that author; many authors have no job title and some have no biography. articles is sourced from the author's own public RSS feed (<author-url>feed/) and carries the 10 most recent items with a machine-readable published_at.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.billboard.com/author/isabela-raygoza/","name":"Isabela Raygoza","job_title":"Associate Editor, Billboard Espa\u00f1ol","bio":"Isabela Raygoza is an associate editor at Billboard, where she covers Latin music.","articles":[{"title":"Example headline","url":"https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/example-headline-1234567890"}]}}
| Field | Filled in, of 10 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 10 | median 112 characters |
| url | 10 | billboard.com |
| summary | 10 | median 79 characters |
| published_at | 10 | 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 10 |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Billboard author URL | https://www.billboard.com/author/gil-kaufman/ | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/billboard/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Fauthor%2Fgil-kaufman%2F" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.billboard.com/author/isabela-raygoza/",
"name": "Isabela Raygoza",
"job_title": "Associate Editor, Billboard Español",
"bio": "Isabela Raygoza is an associate editor at Billboard, where she covers Latin music.",
"articles": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/example-headline-1234567890"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.billboardAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | billboard.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | ||||
| data.articles[].author | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].summary | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].type | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.bio | string | No | ||||
| data.image_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/billboard/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Fauthor%2Fgil-kaufman%2F" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"