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India Today API endpoint
India Today author profile API
Returns an India Today author profile by `url`, a canonical `https://www.indiatoday.in/author/<slug>` link; desk bylines such as `india-today-business-desk` work too. The response has the name, job title, headshot, biography and the first page of recent text stories (typically 20), each with title, URL, section, summary and image. Stories carry no dates.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestIndia Todaypublicnews.indiaTodayAuthorResponseDoc
India Today/indiatoday/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /indiatoday/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- India Today
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.indiaTodayAuthorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameters:
url(required): a canonicalhttps://www.indiatoday.in/author/<slug>URL. Desk bylines such asindia-today-business-deskare accepted.
title, image_url, and biography reflect whatever the author's own record carries; many reporters have no job title or biography. articles is the first page of the author's recent text stories (typically 20), each with title, url, section, summary, and image_url; the author page prints no per-story dates, and older stories are not paged.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.indiatoday.in/author/jane-doe","name":"Jane Doe","image_url":"https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/author/jane-doe.jpg","articles":[{"title":"Example headline","url":"https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/example-story-slug-3002364-2026-09-24","section":"India"}]}}
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /indiatoday/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiatoday.in%2Fauthor%2Favishek-g-dastidar
- Items in articles
- 19
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 5
| Field | Filled in, of 19 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 19 | median 66 characters |
| url | 19 | indiatoday.in |
| section | 19 | |
| summary | 19 | median 153 characters |
| image_url | 19 | akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical India Today author URL | https://www.indiatoday.in/author/jane-doe | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/indiatoday/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiatoday.in%2Fauthor%2Fjane-doe" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.indiatoday.in/author/jane-doe",
"name": "Jane Doe",
"image_url": "https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/author/jane-doe.jpg",
"articles": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/example-story-slug-3002364-2026-09-24",
"section": "India"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.indiaTodayAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | indiatoday.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | ||||
| data.articles[].image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].section | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].summary | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.biography | array | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.title | 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/indiatoday/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiatoday.in%2Fauthor%2Fjane-doe" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"