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Fast Company API endpoint
Fast Company contributor API
Returns a Fast Company contributor's name, biography, and recent articles from a canonical contributor URL. The biography is omitted if the contributor's profile page cannot be loaded. It does not bypass authentication or access controls.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestFast Companypublicnews.fastCompanyAuthorResponseDoc
Fast Company/fastcompany/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /fastcompany/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Fast Company
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.fastCompanyAuthorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: url is a canonical HTTPS
fastcompany.com/user/<slug> URL. Returns the contributor's name,
biography, and recent articles. Name and recent articles come from the
contributor's own public RSS feed; the biography comes from the
contributor's profile page and is omitted when that page's
bot-verification challenge cannot be cleared.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /fastcompany/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fastcompany.com%2Fuser%2Fharvey-deutschendorf
- Items in articles
- 20
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 6
| Field | Filled in, of 20 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 20 | median 58 characters |
| url | 20 | fastcompany.com |
| summary | 20 | median 434 characters |
| published_at | 20 | 2024-02-19 to 2026-09-13 |
| author | 20 | |
| image_url | 20 | images.fastcompany.com |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Fast Company contributor URL | https://www.fastcompany.com/user/example-writer | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/fastcompany/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fastcompany.com%2Fuser%2Fexample-writer" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/user/example-writer",
"name": "Example Writer",
"biography": [
"Example Writer is a contributor covering example topics."
],
"articles": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91611506/example-headline"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.fastCompanyAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | fastcompany.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.biography | array | No | ||||
| 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/fastcompany/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fastcompany.com%2Fuser%2Fexample-writer" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"