NBC News API endpoint
Returns an NBC News author's byline metadata (job title, bio, social links) and their recent articles from a canonical author URL.
/nbc/authorParameters:
url: required; a canonical https://www.nbcnews.com/author/<name>-ncpn<id> author URL.x-api-key: required API key.social_links reflects whatever "Follow" links the author's page actually shows (Twitter/X, Instagram, YouTube, email, ...) -- the set varies per author and unlisted platforms are simply absent, not an error. articles comes from the page's own "Latest from <name>" feed; published_at is NBC News' own relative time string (e.g. "4h ago", "2d ago") since the feed carries no absolute, machine-readable timestamp. An article's url is not restricted to nbcnews.com -- some entries link to a cross-posted version of the same story on a sibling NBCUniversal property such as today.com.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/author/daniella-silva-ncpn211","name":"Daniella Silva","job_title":"National Reporter","bio":"I am an award-winning journalist covering national and international issues for NBC News, with a focus on immigration.","image_url":"https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/.../190619-daniella-silva-byline2558.jpg","social_links":[{"platform":"twitter","url":"https://x.com/DaniellaLSilva"},{"platform":"email","url":"mailto:[email protected]"}],"articles":[{"title":"Venezuelan man shot by ICE in Texas says he's in pain and still has bullet in his back","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelan-man-shot-ice-texas-says-s-pain-still-bullet-back-rcna598999","section":"Immigration","published_at":"4h ago","image_url":"https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/.../260920-austin-ice-shooting-ww-1440-460939.jpg"}]},"msg":"OK"}
| Field | Filled in, of 11 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 11 | |
| url | 11 | nbcnews.com |
| section | 11 | |
| published_at | 11 | |
| image_url | 11 | media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical NBC News author URL | https://www.nbcnews.com/author/daniella-silva-ncpn211 | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/nbc/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fauthor%2Fdaniella-silva-ncpn211" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/author/daniella-silva-ncpn211",
"name": "Daniella Silva",
"job_title": "National Reporter",
"bio": "I am an award-winning journalist covering national and international issues for NBC News, with a focus on immigration.",
"image_url": "https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/.../190619-daniella-silva-byline2558.jpg",
"social_links": [
{
"platform": "twitter",
"url": "https://x.com/DaniellaLSilva"
},
{
"platform": "email",
"url": "mailto:[email protected]"
}
],
"articles": [
{
"title": "Venezuelan man shot by ICE in Texas says he's in pain and still has bullet in his back",
"url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelan-man-shot-ice-texas-says-s-pain-still-bullet-back-rcna598999",
"section": "Immigration",
"published_at": "4h ago",
"image_url": "https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/.../260920-austin-ice-shooting-ww-1440-460939.jpg"
}
]
},
"msg": "OK"
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/nbc.authorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | nbc.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | ||||
| data.articles[].image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].published_at | string | No | PublishedAt is NBC News' own relative time string for this feed (e.g. "4h ago", "2d ago") -- the author feed's markup carries no machine-readable timestamp to convert to an absolute date. | |||
| data.articles[].section | string | No | Section is the article's topic label as NBC News' own byline shows it (e.g. "Immigration"), distinct from the "news"/"world"/etc. site brand label shown alongside it. | |||
| data.articles[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.bio | string | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.job_title | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.social_links | array | No | ||||
| data.social_links[].platform | string | No | ||||
| data.social_links[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.url | string | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/nbc/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fauthor%2Fdaniella-silva-ncpn211" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"