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Khaleej Times API endpoint
Khaleej Times author profile API
Returns a Khaleej Times author's name, photo, biography, and most recent articles (first page) from a canonical author profile URL.
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Khaleej Times/khaleejtimes/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /khaleejtimes/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Khaleej Times
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.khaleejTimesAuthorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Returns a Khaleej Times author's name, slug, photo, biography, X/Twitter handle, total article count, and their most recent articles (the first page of their listing; further pages are not fetched).
Query parameters:
url(required): a canonicalhttps://www.khaleejtimes.com/author/<slug>URL. Any other path is rejected with400; an unknown author returns404.
image_url, biography, and twitter_handle reflect whatever the author's own page shows and are omitted when empty. total_articles is the author's overall published count, not the length of articles.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /khaleejtimes/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.khaleejtimes.com%2Fauthor%2Fwaheed-abbas
- Items in articles
- 10
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 6
| Field | Filled in, of 10 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 10 | median 75 characters |
| url | 10 | khaleejtimes.com |
| summary | 10 | median 161 characters |
| published_at | 10 | 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 10 | |
| image_url | 10 | imgengine.khaleejtimes.com |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Khaleej Times author URL | https://www.khaleejtimes.com/author/jane-doe | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/khaleejtimes/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.khaleejtimes.com%2Fauthor%2Fjane-doe" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.khaleejtimes.com/author/jane-doe",
"name": "Jane Doe",
"slug": "jane-doe",
"image_url": "https://imgengine.khaleejtimes.com/khaleejtimes-english/2025-07-01/abc/jane.png",
"biography": "Jane Doe is a reporter.",
"total_articles": 1200,
"articles": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/example-article-slug",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T06:43:02Z"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.khaleejTimesAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | khaleejtimes.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under Khaleej Times top stories API. | |||
| data.biography | string | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.slug | string | No | ||||
| data.total_articles | integer | No | ||||
| data.twitter_handle | 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/khaleejtimes/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.khaleejtimes.com%2Fauthor%2Fjane-doe" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"