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Medical News Today API endpoint
Medical News Today author profile API
Returns a Medical News Today author profile by `slug` including its numeric id (for example `peter-brown-1595`) or by the profile `url`; provide one of the two. The response has the author's `name`, a `bio` when one is listed, and recent articles with title and URL, plus summary, date and image where present.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestMedical News Todaymedicalnewstoday.authorResponseDoc
Medical News Today/medicalnewstoday/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /medicalnewstoday/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Medical News Today
- Response schema
- #/definitions/medicalnewstoday.authorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameters:
slug(optional): author slug including numeric id, e.g.peter-brown-1595.url(optional): canonical author profile URL, e.g.https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/authors/peter-brown-1595.
Provide either slug or url. Returns the public name, biography when listed, and recent article links.
Workflow check
Start from the checked request: GET /medicalnewstoday/author?slug=peter-brown-1595. Live check on 2026-10-14: 27 articles returned. Fields present in every checked item: title, url.
Return to section story discovery with Get Medical News Today section headlines.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /medicalnewstoday/author?slug=peter-brown-1595
- Items in articles
- 27
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 2
| Field | Filled in, of 27 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 27 | median 54 characters |
| url | 27 | medicalnewstoday.com |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | No | Author slug including numeric id, e.g. peter-brown-1595 | peter-brown-1595 | |
| url | string | No | Public author profile URL | https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/authors/peter-brown-1595 | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/medicalnewstoday/author" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Illustrative JSON response shape
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"name": "Peter Morales-Brown",
"slug": "peter-brown-1595",
"url": "https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/authors/peter-brown-1595",
"articles": [
{
"title": "FDA clears 2 new Alzheimer’s blood tests",
"url": "https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/example"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/medicalnewstoday.authorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | medicalnewstoday.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under Medical News Today News API. | |||
| data.bio | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.slug | string | No | ||||
| data.url | string | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
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/medicalnewstoday/author" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"