The Daily Beast API endpoint
Returns one The Daily Beast reporter's public profile: name, job title, biography, headshot, social link, and their recent articles, from a canonical author URL.
/thedailybeast/authorQuery parameters:
url (required): a canonical https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/<slug>/ URL.bio is the author page's own biography paragraphs, in the order the page renders them. twitter is the author's own social link when the page publishes one; job_title and image_url are omitted when the page doesn't set them.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/isabel-van-brugen/","name":"Isabel van Brugen","job_title":"Freelance Writer","bio":["Isabel van Brugen is a journalist whose work has been published in outlets including Newsweek, The Times, the London Evening Standard, and the Daily Express, covering beats ranging from the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. elections and politics, and human rights in China."],"image_url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/thedailybeast/3UIMYUJG3BKJTN2XRGAUKWTGAE.jpg","twitter":"https://twitter.com/isabelvanbrugen","articles":[{"title":"Punk Legend, 67, Reveals Heartbreaking Diagnosis","url":"https://www.thedailybeast.com/east-bay-ray-dead-kennedys-guitarist-reveals-heartbreaking-parkinsons-diagnosis/"}]}}
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical thedailybeast.com/author/<slug> URL | https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/isabel-van-brugen/ | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/thedailybeast/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fauthor%2Fisabel-van-brugen%2F" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/isabel-van-brugen/",
"name": "Isabel van Brugen",
"job_title": "Freelance Writer",
"bio": [
"Isabel van Brugen is a journalist whose work has been published in outlets including Newsweek, The Times, the London Evening Standard, and the Daily Express, covering beats ranging from the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. elections and politics, and human rights in China."
],
"image_url": "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/thedailybeast/3UIMYUJG3BKJTN2XRGAUKWTGAE.jpg",
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/isabelvanbrugen",
"articles": [
{
"title": "Punk Legend, 67, Reveals Heartbreaking Diagnosis",
"url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/east-bay-ray-dead-kennedys-guitarist-reveals-heartbreaking-parkinsons-diagnosis/"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.dailyBeastAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | thedailybeast.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | ||||
| data.articles[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.bio | array | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.job_title | string | No | ||||
| data.name | 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/thedailybeast/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fauthor%2Fisabel-van-brugen%2F" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"