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Evening Standard author profile API

Returns an Evening Standard author profile, found by `slug` (for example `nicholas-cecil`) or by a canonical `url`; send exactly one of the two. The response has the name, job title, bio, X/Twitter link and the author's recent articles with their section. It is one page, with no further pagination.

GETapiKey2 credits/requestEvening Standardpublicnews.standardAuthorResponseDoc/standard/author

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /standard/author
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: Evening Standard
Response schema: #/definitions/publicnews.standardAuthorResponseDoc

Evening Standard scraping API Try Evening Standard author profile API in Playground Evening Standard API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

slug (optional): an author slug, e.g. nicholas-cecil.
url (optional): a canonical https://www.standard.co.uk/author/<slug> URL, as an alternative to slug.

Exactly one of slug/url is required. The response is a single page of the author's most recent articles as shown on their profile page; there is no further pagination.

Example response (truncated):

{"code":200,"data":{"name":"Nicholas Cecil","slug":"nicholas-cecil","url":"https://www.standard.co.uk/author/nicholas-cecil","job_title":"Chief Reporter","bio":"Nicholas Cecil is Chief Reporter at The Standard...","twitter":"https://twitter.com/nicholascecil","articles":[{"title":"Greens to win ZERO London MPs as Labour gets 'Burnham bounce' - poll","url":"https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/yougov-mrp-poll-london-zack-polanski-green-party-labour-burnham-b1298184.html","section":"Politics","section_url":"https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics"}]}}

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /standard/author?slug=nicholas-cecil
Items in articles: 21
Fields filled in every checked item: 4

Field	Filled in, of 21 checked	Values in the sample
title	21	median 68 characters
url	21	standard.co.uk
section	21
section_url	21	standard.co.uk

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
slug	string	No	Author slug, e.g. nicholas-cecil	nicholas-cecil
url	string	No	Canonical standard.co.uk/author/<slug> URL; alternative to slug	https://www.standard.co.uk/author/nicholas-cecil
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes	API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/standard/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Nicholas Cecil",
    "slug": "nicholas-cecil",
    "url": "https://www.standard.co.uk/author/nicholas-cecil",
    "job_title": "Chief Reporter",
    "bio": "Nicholas Cecil is Chief Reporter at The Standard...",
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/nicholascecil",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Greens to win ZERO London MPs as Labour gets 'Burnham bounce' - poll",
        "url": "https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/yougov-mrp-poll-london-zack-polanski-green-party-labour-burnham-b1298184.html",
        "section": "Politics",
        "section_url": "https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/publicnews.standardAuthorResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required
data	standard.AuthorResponse	No
data.articles	array	No
data.articles[].section	string	No
data.articles[].section_url	string	No
data.articles[].title	string	No
data.articles[].url	string	No
data.bio	string	No
data.job_title	string	No
data.name	string	No
data.slug	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/standard/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Shared guides

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Evening Standard API endpoint

Evening Standard author profile API

GETapiKey2 credits/requestEvening Standardpublicnews.standardAuthorResponseDoc/standard/author

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /standard/author
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: Evening Standard
Response schema: #/definitions/publicnews.standardAuthorResponseDoc

Evening Standard scraping API Try Evening Standard author profile API in Playground Evening Standard API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

slug (optional): an author slug, e.g. nicholas-cecil.
url (optional): a canonical https://www.standard.co.uk/author/<slug> URL, as an alternative to slug.

Exactly one of slug/url is required. The response is a single page of the author's most recent articles as shown on their profile page; there is no further pagination.

Example response (truncated):

{"code":200,"data":{"name":"Nicholas Cecil","slug":"nicholas-cecil","url":"https://www.standard.co.uk/author/nicholas-cecil","job_title":"Chief Reporter","bio":"Nicholas Cecil is Chief Reporter at The Standard...","twitter":"https://twitter.com/nicholascecil","articles":[{"title":"Greens to win ZERO London MPs as Labour gets 'Burnham bounce' - poll","url":"https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/yougov-mrp-poll-london-zack-polanski-green-party-labour-burnham-b1298184.html","section":"Politics","section_url":"https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics"}]}}

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /standard/author?slug=nicholas-cecil
Items in articles: 21
Fields filled in every checked item: 4

Field	Filled in, of 21 checked	Values in the sample
title	21	median 68 characters
url	21	standard.co.uk
section	21
section_url	21	standard.co.uk

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
slug	string	No	Author slug, e.g. nicholas-cecil	nicholas-cecil
url	string	No	Canonical standard.co.uk/author/<slug> URL; alternative to slug	https://www.standard.co.uk/author/nicholas-cecil
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes	API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/standard/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Nicholas Cecil",
    "slug": "nicholas-cecil",
    "url": "https://www.standard.co.uk/author/nicholas-cecil",
    "job_title": "Chief Reporter",
    "bio": "Nicholas Cecil is Chief Reporter at The Standard...",
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/nicholascecil",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Greens to win ZERO London MPs as Labour gets 'Burnham bounce' - poll",
        "url": "https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/yougov-mrp-poll-london-zack-polanski-green-party-labour-burnham-b1298184.html",
        "section": "Politics",
        "section_url": "https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/publicnews.standardAuthorResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required
data	standard.AuthorResponse	No
data.articles	array	No
data.articles[].section	string	No
data.articles[].section_url	string	No
data.articles[].title	string	No
data.articles[].url	string	No
data.bio	string	No
data.job_title	string	No
data.name	string	No
data.slug	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/standard/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Shared guides

Authentication Errors and retries Rate limits and credits Pricing Acceptable use

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Evening Standard author profile API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

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Evening Standard author profile API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

Related