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Live Science author profile API

Returns one Live Science author's public profile: name, job title, biography, social links, and one page of their recent articles.

GETapiKey2 credits/requestLive Sciencepublicnews.livescienceAuthorResponseDoc/livescience/author

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /livescience/author
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: Live Science
Response schema: #/definitions/publicnews.livescienceAuthorResponseDoc

Live Science Scraper API Try Live Science author profile API in Playground Live Science API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

slug (optional): an author slug, e.g. ben-turner.
url (optional): a canonical https://www.livescience.com/author/<slug> URL, optionally with a /page/<n> path segment, as an alternative to slug. A URL that carries Live Science's own /page/<n> pagination segment sets the page from that segment.
page (optional): 1-based page number of the author's article list; overrides any page number embedded in url. Defaults to 1.

Exactly one of slug/url is required. has_next_page reports whether Live Science's own pagination link indicates a further page exists.

Example response (truncated):

{"code":200,"data":{"name":"Example Author","slug":"example-author","url":"https://www.livescience.com/author/example-author","job_title":"Features Editor","biography":["Example bio paragraph."],"social_links":[{"platform":"twitter","url":"https://twitter.com/exampleauthor"}],"page":1,"has_next_page":true,"articles":[{"title":"Example headline","url":"https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/example-comet-story"}]}}

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /livescience/author?slug=ben-turner
Items in articles: 25
Fields filled in every checked item: 3
Fields empty in some or all items: 1

Field	Filled in, of 25 checked	Values in the sample
title	25	median 113 characters
url	25	livescience.com
image_url	25	cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net
published_at	24	2026-04-23 to 2026-07-18

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
slug	string	No	Author slug, e.g. ben-turner	ben-turner
url	string	No	Canonical livescience.com/author/<slug> URL, optionally with a /page/<n> segment; alternative to slug	https://www.livescience.com/author/ben-turner
page	integer	No	1-based page number of the author's article list; overrides any page number embedded in url
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes	API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/livescience/author?page=1" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Example Author",
    "slug": "example-author",
    "url": "https://www.livescience.com/author/example-author",
    "job_title": "Features Editor",
    "biography": [
      "Example bio paragraph."
    ],
    "social_links": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/exampleauthor"
      }
    ],
    "page": 1,
    "has_next_page": true,
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/example-comet-story"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/publicnews.livescienceAuthorResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Description
data	livescience.AuthorResponse	No
data.articles	array	No	HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under Live Science top stories API.
data.biography	array	No
data.has_next_page	boolean	No
data.job_title	string	No
data.name	string	No
data.page	integer	No
data.slug	string	No
data.social_links	array	No
data.social_links[].platform	string	No
data.social_links[].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/livescience/author?page=1" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Shared guides

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Live Science API endpoint

Live Science author profile API

Returns one Live Science author's public profile: name, job title, biography, social links, and one page of their recent articles.

GETapiKey2 credits/requestLive Sciencepublicnews.livescienceAuthorResponseDoc/livescience/author

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /livescience/author
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: Live Science
Response schema: #/definitions/publicnews.livescienceAuthorResponseDoc

Live Science Scraper API Try Live Science author profile API in Playground Live Science API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

slug (optional): an author slug, e.g. ben-turner.
url (optional): a canonical https://www.livescience.com/author/<slug> URL, optionally with a /page/<n> path segment, as an alternative to slug. A URL that carries Live Science's own /page/<n> pagination segment sets the page from that segment.
page (optional): 1-based page number of the author's article list; overrides any page number embedded in url. Defaults to 1.

Exactly one of slug/url is required. has_next_page reports whether Live Science's own pagination link indicates a further page exists.

Example response (truncated):

{"code":200,"data":{"name":"Example Author","slug":"example-author","url":"https://www.livescience.com/author/example-author","job_title":"Features Editor","biography":["Example bio paragraph."],"social_links":[{"platform":"twitter","url":"https://twitter.com/exampleauthor"}],"page":1,"has_next_page":true,"articles":[{"title":"Example headline","url":"https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/example-comet-story"}]}}

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /livescience/author?slug=ben-turner
Items in articles: 25
Fields filled in every checked item: 3
Fields empty in some or all items: 1

Field	Filled in, of 25 checked	Values in the sample
title	25	median 113 characters
url	25	livescience.com
image_url	25	cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net
published_at	24	2026-04-23 to 2026-07-18

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
slug	string	No	Author slug, e.g. ben-turner	ben-turner
url	string	No	Canonical livescience.com/author/<slug> URL, optionally with a /page/<n> segment; alternative to slug	https://www.livescience.com/author/ben-turner
page	integer	No	1-based page number of the author's article list; overrides any page number embedded in url
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes	API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/livescience/author?page=1" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Example Author",
    "slug": "example-author",
    "url": "https://www.livescience.com/author/example-author",
    "job_title": "Features Editor",
    "biography": [
      "Example bio paragraph."
    ],
    "social_links": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/exampleauthor"
      }
    ],
    "page": 1,
    "has_next_page": true,
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/example-comet-story"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/publicnews.livescienceAuthorResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Description
data	livescience.AuthorResponse	No
data.articles	array	No	HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under Live Science top stories API.
data.biography	array	No
data.has_next_page	boolean	No
data.job_title	string	No
data.name	string	No
data.page	integer	No
data.slug	string	No
data.social_links	array	No
data.social_links[].platform	string	No
data.social_links[].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/livescience/author?page=1" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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Live Science 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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Live Science 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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