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PhoneArena API endpoint
PhoneArena author profile API
Returns one PhoneArena staff author's public profile: name, role, biography, image, social links and the recent articles listed on the profile page.
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PhoneArena/phonearena/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /phonearena/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- PhoneArena
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.phonearenaAuthorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Returns one PhoneArena staff author's public profile: name, role, biography paragraphs, profile image, web social links (the staff e-mail link is not returned) and the recent articles listed on the profile page.
Query parameters:
slug(optional): the author's username, e.g.sebastian.f. Lowercase letters, digits, dots, hyphens and underscores.url(optional): a canonicalhttps://www.phonearena.com/team/<slug>URL, as an alternative toslug.
Exactly one of slug/url is required; invalid values return a 400 error and an unknown author returns a 404 error. The profile shows one fixed list of about a dozen recent articles with no pagination and no dates, so each article has a title, canonical url, type (news or review), author and image_url.
PhoneArena serves its HTML pages behind a Cloudflare bot challenge. This endpoint does not try to solve it: when the challenge is not cleared the endpoint returns a 503 error stating that a Cloudflare challenge was served.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"name":"Example Author","slug":"example.a","url":"https://www.phonearena.com/team/example.a","role":"Senior News Writer","biography":["Example biography paragraph."],"image_url":"https://m-cdn.phonearena.com/images/users/334-200/Example.jpg","social_links":[{"platform":"x","url":"https://x.com/example"}],"articles":[{"title":"Example headline","url":"https://www.phonearena.com/news/example-story_id183216","type":"news","author":"Example Author","image_url":"https://m-cdn.phonearena.com/images/article/183216-wide-two_800/Example.webp"}]}}
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /phonearena/author?slug=sebastian.f
- Items in articles
- 100
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 5
| Field | Filled in, of 100 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 100 | median 85 characters |
| url | 100 | phonearena.com |
| type | 100 | |
| author | 100 | |
| image_url | 100 | m-cdn.phonearena.com |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | No | Author username, e.g. sebastian.f | sebastian.f | |
| url | string | No | Canonical phonearena.com/team/<slug> URL; alternative to slug | https://www.phonearena.com/team/sebastian.f | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/phonearena/author" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"name": "Example Author",
"slug": "example.a",
"url": "https://www.phonearena.com/team/example.a",
"role": "Senior News Writer",
"biography": [
"Example biography paragraph."
],
"image_url": "https://m-cdn.phonearena.com/images/users/334-200/Example.jpg",
"social_links": [
{
"platform": "x",
"url": "https://x.com/example"
}
],
"articles": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.phonearena.com/news/example-story_id183216",
"type": "news",
"author": "Example Author",
"image_url": "https://m-cdn.phonearena.com/images/article/183216-wide-two_800/Example.webp"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.phonearenaAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | phonearena.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under PhoneArena top stories API. | |||
| data.biography | array | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.role | string | 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/phonearena/author" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"