New York Daily News API endpoint
Returns one New York Daily News author's public profile: name, job title, bio, public email and X/Twitter handle, and their recent articles.
/nydailynews/authorReturns one New York Daily News author's public profile: name, job title, bio, the public email and X/Twitter handle shown on the page, and the recent articles listed on the first page of the author's archive.
Query parameters:
slug (optional): an author slug, e.g. rocco-parascandola, taken from the author's byline link.url (optional): a canonical https://www.nydailynews.com/author/<slug>/ URL, as an alternative to slug.Exactly one of slug/url is required. Each article has title, url, and, when the card shows them, summary and published_at. Later archive pages (/page/2/ and beyond) are not fetched. An unknown author returns a not-found error.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"name":"Rocco Parascandola","slug":"rocco-parascandola","url":"https://www.nydailynews.com/author/rocco-parascandola","job_title":"Police Bureau Chief","bio":"Rocco Parascandola covers the NYPD and criminal justice issues for the New York Daily News.","email":"[email protected]","twitter":"rparascandola","articles":[{"title":"Loaded firearm found in backpack following fight inside Queens high school","url":"https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/24/loaded-firearm-found-in-backpack-following-fight-inside-queens-high-school","published_at":"2026-09-24T21:31:11Z"}]}}
| Field | Filled in, of 10 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 10 | median 69 characters |
| url | 10 | nydailynews.com |
| summary | 10 | median 169 characters |
| published_at | 10 | 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-13 |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | No | Author slug, e.g. rocco-parascandola | rocco-parascandola | |
| url | string | No | Canonical nydailynews.com/author/<slug>/ URL; alternative to slug | https://www.nydailynews.com/author/rocco-parascandola/ | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/nydailynews/author" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"name": "Rocco Parascandola",
"slug": "rocco-parascandola",
"url": "https://www.nydailynews.com/author/rocco-parascandola",
"job_title": "Police Bureau Chief",
"bio": "Rocco Parascandola covers the NYPD and criminal justice issues for the New York Daily News.",
"email": "[email protected]",
"twitter": "rparascandola",
"articles": [
{
"title": "Loaded firearm found in backpack following fight inside Queens high school",
"url": "https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/24/loaded-firearm-found-in-backpack-following-fight-inside-queens-high-school",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T21:31:11Z"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.nyDailyNewsAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | nydailynews.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | ||||
| data.articles[].published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].summary | 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 |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/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/nydailynews/author" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"