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The Sydney Morning Herald API endpoint
Sydney Morning Herald Journalist API
Returns a Sydney Morning Herald journalist's public profile -- name, short biography, headshot, contact email and social links where published -- plus their recent stories, from a canonical https://www.smh.com.au/by/<name>-<id> URL.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestThe Sydney Morning Heraldpublicnews.smhAuthorResponseDoc
The Sydney Morning Herald/smh/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /smh/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- The Sydney Morning Herald
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.smhAuthorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: url (required) is a canonical https://www.smh.com.au/by/<name>-<id> journalist URL, for example https://www.smh.com.au/by/michael-mcgowan-p536tc.
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.smh.com.au/by/michael-mcgowan-p536tc","name":"Michael McGowan","bio":"Michael McGowan is state political editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.","image_url":"https://static.ffx.io/images/...","email":"[email protected]","articles":[{"title":"‘Identity rabbit hole’: One Nation cops spray over criticism of Aboriginal flag pin","url":"https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/identity-rabbit-hole-one-nation-cops-spray-over-criticism-of-aboriginal-flag-pin-20260924-p6107h.html","published_at":"2026-09-24T09:30:00Z"}]}}
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /smh/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fby%2Fmichael-mcgowan-p536tc
- Items in articles
- 10
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 6
| Field | Filled in, of 10 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 10 | median 73 characters |
| url | 10 | smh.com.au |
| summary | 10 | median 149 characters |
| published_at | 10 | 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-12 |
| author | 10 | |
| image_url | 10 | static.ffx.io |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical The Sydney Morning Herald journalist URL | https://www.smh.com.au/by/michael-mcgowan-p536tc | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/smh/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fby%2Fmichael-mcgowan-p536tc" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.smh.com.au/by/michael-mcgowan-p536tc",
"name": "Michael McGowan",
"bio": "Michael McGowan is state political editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.",
"image_url": "https://static.ffx.io/images/...",
"email": "[email protected]",
"articles": [
{
"title": "‘Identity rabbit hole’: One Nation cops spray over criticism of Aboriginal flag pin",
"url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/identity-rabbit-hole-one-nation-cops-spray-over-criticism-of-aboriginal-flag-pin-20260924-p6107h.html",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T09:30:00Z"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.smhAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | smh.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/smh/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fby%2Fmichael-mcgowan-p536tc" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"