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Manchester Evening News API endpoint
Manchester Evening News Author API
Returns a Manchester Evening News author profile, identified by `slug` (such as `lee-swettenham`) or a canonical `manchestereveningnews.co.uk/authors/<slug>/` `url`; provide exactly one. The response has the name, job title, bio, `email`, `twitter` and one page of recent articles with title, URL and label. Contact fields are absent when unlisted.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestManchester Evening Newspublicnews.menAuthorResponseDoc
Manchester Evening News/men/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /men/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Manchester Evening News
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.menAuthorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameters:
slug(optional): an author slug, e.g.lee-swettenham.url(optional): a canonicalhttps://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/authors/<slug>/URL, as an alternative toslug.
Exactly one of slug/url is required. The response is a single page of the author's most recent articles as shown on their profile page; there is no further pagination. email and twitter reflect whatever contact links the author's page actually shows; unlisted contact details are simply absent, not an error.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"name":"Lee Swettenham","slug":"lee-swettenham","url":"https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/authors/lee-swettenham/","job_title":"Deputy football editor","bio":"Lee is the Deputy Football Editor for the Manchester Evening News...","email":"[email protected]","twitter":"https://twitter.com/lee_swettenham","articles":[{"title":"Sign up for free Man City news and analysis plus transfer updates from the MEN on WhatsApp","url":"https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-whatsapp-latest-news-16484164","label":"Manchester City FC"}]}}
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /men/author?slug=lee-swettenham
- Items in articles
- 24
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 4
| Field | Filled in, of 24 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 24 | median 86 characters |
| url | 24 | manchestereveningnews.co.uk |
| label | 24 | |
| label_url | 24 | manchestereveningnews.co.uk |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | No | Author slug, e.g. lee-swettenham | lee-swettenham | |
| url | string | No | Canonical manchestereveningnews.co.uk/authors/<slug>/ URL; alternative to slug | https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/authors/lee-swettenham/ | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/men/author" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"name": "Lee Swettenham",
"slug": "lee-swettenham",
"url": "https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/authors/lee-swettenham/",
"job_title": "Deputy football editor",
"bio": "Lee is the Deputy Football Editor for the Manchester Evening News...",
"email": "[email protected]",
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/lee_swettenham",
"articles": [
{
"title": "Sign up for free Man City news and analysis plus transfer updates from the MEN on WhatsApp",
"url": "https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-whatsapp-latest-news-16484164",
"label": "Manchester City FC"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.menAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | men.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | ||||
| data.articles[].label | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].label_url | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.bio | string | No | ||||
| data.email | string | No | ||||
| data.job_title | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.slug | string | No | ||||
| data.twitter | 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/men/author" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"