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Daily Express API endpoint
Daily Express journalist profile API
Returns one Daily Express journalist's public profile: name, job title, bio, and their recent articles, from a canonical journalist URL.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestDaily Expresspublicnews.dailyExpressAuthorResponseDoc
Daily Express/dailyexpress/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /dailyexpress/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Daily Express
- Execution
- Managed browser rendering where the target needs it
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.dailyExpressAuthorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameters:
url(required): a canonicalhttps://www.express.co.uk/journalist/<id>/<name>URL. Daily Express journalist pages are addressed by a publisher-assigned numeric id plus a name slug that cannot be derived from the journalist's name alone, so there is noslugshortcut for this endpoint (unlike other author endpoints in this family).
bio is the author page's own free-form paragraph list -- typically a "BASED IN" line, a "TOPIC EXPERTISE" line, one or more prose paragraphs, and contact lines ("Email: ...", "X: ..."), in the order the page renders them. email and twitter are pulled out of that same content when present; unlisted contact details are simply absent, not an error.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.express.co.uk/journalist/123944/Rebecca-Russell","name":"Rebecca Russell","job_title":"Deputy Royal Editor","bio":["BASED IN: London","TOPIC EXPERTISE: Royal Family, Royal Family history","She covers current Royal Family events, as well as frequently writes about the Royal Family's traditions and history.","Email: [email protected]","X: @RMRussell29"],"email":"[email protected]","twitter":"https://x.com/RMRussell29","articles":[{"title":"Earl Spencer humiliated as he's forced to issue grovelling apology to Piers Morgan","url":"https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2250779/earl-spencer-piers-morgan-apology"}]}}
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /dailyexpress/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.express.co.uk%2Fjournalist%2F123944%2FRebecca-Russell
- Items in articles
- 15
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 2
| Field | Filled in, of 15 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 15 | median 69 characters |
| url | 15 | express.co.uk |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Daily Express journalist URL | https://www.express.co.uk/journalist/123944/Rebecca-Russell | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/dailyexpress/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.express.co.uk%2Fjournalist%2F123944%2FRebecca-Russell" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.express.co.uk/journalist/123944/Rebecca-Russell",
"name": "Rebecca Russell",
"job_title": "Deputy Royal Editor",
"bio": [
"BASED IN: London",
"TOPIC EXPERTISE: Royal Family, Royal Family history",
"She covers current Royal Family events, as well as frequently writes about the Royal Family's traditions and history.",
"Email: [email protected]",
"X: @RMRussell29"
],
"email": "[email protected]",
"twitter": "https://x.com/RMRussell29",
"articles": [
{
"title": "Earl Spencer humiliated as he's forced to issue grovelling apology to Piers Morgan",
"url": "https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2250779/earl-spencer-piers-morgan-apology"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.dailyExpressAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | dailyexpress.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | ||||
| data.articles[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.bio | array | No | ||||
| data.email | string | No | ||||
| data.job_title | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.twitter | string | No | ||||
| data.url | string | No |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Code examples
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/dailyexpress/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.express.co.uk%2Fjournalist%2F123944%2FRebecca-Russell" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"