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E! News API endpoint
E! News author page API
Returns an E! News writer's `name` and the articles on their author page, about 45 per page, for a `url` like `https://www.eonline.com/authors/natalie-finn` (add `/page/<n>` for older ones). There is no biography or photo. `published_at` is the page's own text, such as `18 minutes ago`, not a timestamp.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestE! Newspublicnews.eonlineAuthorResponseDoc
E! News/eonline/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /eonline/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- E! News
- Execution
- Managed browser rendering where the target needs it
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.eonlineAuthorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameters:
url(required): a canonicalhttps://www.eonline.com/authors/<slug>URL, optionally with/page/<n>for older articles. The slug is the writer's name in lowercase with hyphens and no accents (for examplenatalie-finn,sofia-viera); the byline on an article gives the name.
E! News author pages carry no biography, photo or social links, so the response holds only name and articles (about 45 per page; only /news/ articles are returned, photo galleries and videos are skipped). Each article's published_at is the page's own rendered text, either a relative phrase such as 18 minutes ago or a date such as September 19, 2026, not a machine-readable timestamp. An unknown author, or a page number past the last page, returns not-found.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.eonline.com/authors/natalie-finn","name":"Natalie Finn","articles":[{"title":"Inside Taylor Swift and Dakota Johnson's Very Real Decade-Long Friendship","url":"https://www.eonline.com/news/1436400/inside-taylor-swift-dakota-johnsons-friendship","published_at":"18 minutes ago"}]}}
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /eonline/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eonline.com%2Fauthors%2Fnatalie-finn
- Items in articles
- 25
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 3
| Field | Filled in, of 25 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 25 | median 75 characters |
| url | 25 | eonline.com |
| published_at | 25 |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical E! News author URL | https://www.eonline.com/authors/natalie-finn | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/eonline/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eonline.com%2Fauthors%2Fnatalie-finn" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.eonline.com/authors/natalie-finn",
"name": "Natalie Finn",
"articles": [
{
"title": "Inside Taylor Swift and Dakota Johnson's Very Real Decade-Long Friendship",
"url": "https://www.eonline.com/news/1436400/inside-taylor-swift-dakota-johnsons-friendship",
"published_at": "18 minutes ago"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.eonlineAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | eonline.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under E! News top stories API. | |||
| data.name | 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/eonline/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eonline.com%2Fauthors%2Fnatalie-finn" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"