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Hindustan Times API endpoint
Hindustan Times author profile API
Returns a Hindustan Times author's byline metadata, biography, contact/social links, and their most recent articles (the first page only) from a canonical author URL.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestHindustan Timespublicnews.hindustanTimesAuthorResponseDoc
Hindustan Times/hindustantimes/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /hindustantimes/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Hindustan Times
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.hindustanTimesAuthorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameters:
url(required): a canonicalhttps://www.hindustantimes.com/author/<slug>-<id>URL.
articles is the first page of the author's recent coverage only; no further pages are returned. image_url, biography, email, twitter_url, facebook_url, and linkedin_url reflect whatever the author's own profile carries -- not every profile has all of these, and staff/desk bylines typically have none of the social fields. email omits Hindustan Times' own internal placeholder address for contributors with no real assigned email.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.hindustantimes.com/author/ht-news-desk-101650005059496","name":"HT News Desk","image_url":"https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2026/06/29/original/ht-news-desk.png","biography":["Follow the latest breaking news, major developments and agenda-setting stories from India and around the world with the newsdesk at Hindustan Times."],"articles":[{"title":"Example headline","url":"https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/example-article-slug-101790173906545.html"}]}}
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /hindustantimes/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Fauthor%2Fpraphul-chandra-101790234213784
- Items in articles
- 1
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 5
| Field | Filled in, of 1 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 1 | median 66 characters |
| url | 1 | hindustantimes.com |
| summary | 1 | median 79 characters |
| published_at | 1 | 2026-09-24 |
| image_url | 1 | hindustantimes.com |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Hindustan Times author URL | https://www.hindustantimes.com/author/ht-news-desk-101650005059496 | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/hindustantimes/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Fauthor%2Fht-news-desk-101650005059496" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/author/ht-news-desk-101650005059496",
"name": "HT News Desk",
"image_url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2026/06/29/original/ht-news-desk.png",
"biography": [
"Follow the latest breaking news, major developments and agenda-setting stories from India and around the world with the newsdesk at Hindustan Times."
],
"articles": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/example-article-slug-101790173906545.html"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.hindustanTimesAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | hindustantimes.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.email | string | No | ||||
| data.facebook_url | string | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.linkedin_url | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.twitter_url | 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/hindustantimes/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Fauthor%2Fht-news-desk-101650005059496" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"