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The Age API endpoint

The Age journalist profile API

Returns an Age journalist's public profile -- name, short biography, headshot, contact email and social links where published -- plus their recent stories, from a canonical https://www.theage.com.au/by/<name>-<id> URL.

GETapiKey2 credits/requestThe Agepublicnews.theageAuthorResponseDoc/theage/author

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /theage/author
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: The Age
Response schema: #/definitions/publicnews.theageAuthorResponseDoc

The Age Scraper API Try The Age journalist profile API in Playground The Age API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameter: url (required) is a canonical https://www.theage.com.au/by/<name>-<id> journalist URL, for example https://www.theage.com.au/by/chip-le-grand-p4yvib.

Returns the journalist's name, short biography, headshot, contact email and social links where the profile publishes them, and their recent stories (title, canonical URL, summary, author, publication time, image). Good Food reviewer profiles (/goodfood/by/...) are not supported.

Example response (articles shortened):

{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.theage.com.au/by/chip-le-grand-p4yvib","name":"Chip Le Grand","bio":"Chip Le Grand leads our state politics reporting team.","image_url":"https://static.ffx.io/images/...","email":"[email protected]","articles":[{"title":"Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog finally has teeth. These are its new powers","url":"https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victoria-s-anti-corruption-watchdog-finally-has-teeth-these-are-its-new-powers-20260924-p61083.html","published_at":"2026-09-24T08:50:09Z","author":"Chip Le Grand"}]}}

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /theage/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fby%2Fchip-le-grand-p4yvib
Items in articles: 10
Fields filled in every checked item: 6

Field	Filled in, of 10 checked	Values in the sample
title	10	median 79 characters
url	10	theage.com.au
summary	10	median 149 characters
published_at	10	2026-09-24 to 2026-10-13
author	10
image_url	10	static.ffx.io

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
url	string	Yes		Canonical The Age journalist URL	https://www.theage.com.au/by/chip-le-grand-p4yvib
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes		API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/theage/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fby%2Fchip-le-grand-p4yvib" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/by/chip-le-grand-p4yvib",
    "name": "Chip Le Grand",
    "bio": "Chip Le Grand leads our state politics reporting team.",
    "image_url": "https://static.ffx.io/images/...",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog finally has teeth. These are its new powers",
        "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victoria-s-anti-corruption-watchdog-finally-has-teeth-these-are-its-new-powers-20260924-p61083.html",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T08:50:09Z",
        "author": "Chip Le Grand"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/publicnews.theageAuthorResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required
data	theage.AuthorResponse	No
data.articles	array	No
data.articles[].author	string	No
data.articles[].image_url	string	No
data.articles[].published_at	string	No
data.articles[].summary	string	No
data.articles[].title	string	No
data.articles[].type	string	No
data.articles[].url	string	No
data.bio	string	No
data.email	string	No
data.image_url	string	No
data.name	string	No
data.social_links	array	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/theage/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fby%2Fchip-le-grand-p4yvib" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Shared guides

Authentication Errors and retries Rate limits and credits Pricing Acceptable use

More The Age endpoint docs The Age Scraper API The Age article API documentation The Age section headlines API documentation The Age top stories API documentation The Age sections API documentation

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The Age API endpoint

The Age journalist profile API

GETapiKey2 credits/requestThe Agepublicnews.theageAuthorResponseDoc/theage/author

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /theage/author
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: The Age
Response schema: #/definitions/publicnews.theageAuthorResponseDoc

The Age Scraper API Try The Age journalist profile API in Playground The Age API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameter: url (required) is a canonical https://www.theage.com.au/by/<name>-<id> journalist URL, for example https://www.theage.com.au/by/chip-le-grand-p4yvib.

Example response (articles shortened):

{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.theage.com.au/by/chip-le-grand-p4yvib","name":"Chip Le Grand","bio":"Chip Le Grand leads our state politics reporting team.","image_url":"https://static.ffx.io/images/...","email":"[email protected]","articles":[{"title":"Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog finally has teeth. These are its new powers","url":"https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victoria-s-anti-corruption-watchdog-finally-has-teeth-these-are-its-new-powers-20260924-p61083.html","published_at":"2026-09-24T08:50:09Z","author":"Chip Le Grand"}]}}

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /theage/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fby%2Fchip-le-grand-p4yvib
Items in articles: 10
Fields filled in every checked item: 6

Field	Filled in, of 10 checked	Values in the sample
title	10	median 79 characters
url	10	theage.com.au
summary	10	median 149 characters
published_at	10	2026-09-24 to 2026-10-13
author	10
image_url	10	static.ffx.io

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
url	string	Yes		Canonical The Age journalist URL	https://www.theage.com.au/by/chip-le-grand-p4yvib
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes		API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/theage/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fby%2Fchip-le-grand-p4yvib" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/by/chip-le-grand-p4yvib",
    "name": "Chip Le Grand",
    "bio": "Chip Le Grand leads our state politics reporting team.",
    "image_url": "https://static.ffx.io/images/...",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog finally has teeth. These are its new powers",
        "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victoria-s-anti-corruption-watchdog-finally-has-teeth-these-are-its-new-powers-20260924-p61083.html",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T08:50:09Z",
        "author": "Chip Le Grand"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/publicnews.theageAuthorResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required
data	theage.AuthorResponse	No
data.articles	array	No
data.articles[].author	string	No
data.articles[].image_url	string	No
data.articles[].published_at	string	No
data.articles[].summary	string	No
data.articles[].title	string	No
data.articles[].type	string	No
data.articles[].url	string	No
data.bio	string	No
data.email	string	No
data.image_url	string	No
data.name	string	No
data.social_links	array	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/theage/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fby%2Fchip-le-grand-p4yvib" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Shared guides

Authentication Errors and retries Rate limits and credits Pricing Acceptable use

More The Age endpoint docs The Age Scraper API The Age article API documentation The Age section headlines API documentation The Age top stories API documentation The Age sections API documentation

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The Age journalist profile API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

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The Age journalist profile API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

Related