The Telegraph API endpoint
Returns a Telegraph author's profile by `url`, a canonical `telegraph.co.uk/authors/<letter>/<range>/<name>/` link: name, job title, bio and recent articles with title, URL, excerpt and ISO-8601 `published_at`. `job_title` can be empty for contributors without a masthead credit.
/telegraph/authorQuery parameters:
url (required): a canonical https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/<letter>/<range>/<name>/ URL -- the Telegraph buckets author pages alphabetically (for example https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/c/ck-co/con-coughlin/).job_title reflects the author's masthead credit and can be empty for contributors without one. Each article's published_at is an ISO-8601 timestamp taken directly from the page's own <time datetime> element.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/c/ck-co/con-coughlin/","name":"Con Coughlin","job_title":"Executive Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor","bio":"A leading expert on global conflict, international security and the Middle East.","articles":[{"title":"Trump is making a fool of himself over Iran","url":"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/22/trump-making-fool-of-himself-over-iran/","excerpt":"The US president both threatened to annihilate the Iranian regime and claimed it was no longer a bully","published_at":"2026-09-22T17:53:33.545+01:00"}]}}
| Field | Filled in, of 22 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 22 | median 61 characters |
| url | 22 | telegraph.co.uk |
| excerpt | 22 | median 122 characters |
| published_at | 22 | 2026-06-08 to 2026-10-11 |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Telegraph author URL | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/c/ck-co/con-coughlin/ | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/telegraph/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fauthors%2Fc%2Fck-co%2Fcon-coughlin%2F" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/c/ck-co/con-coughlin/",
"name": "Con Coughlin",
"job_title": "Executive Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor",
"bio": "A leading expert on global conflict, international security and the Middle East.",
"articles": [
{
"title": "Trump is making a fool of himself over Iran",
"url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/22/trump-making-fool-of-himself-over-iran/",
"excerpt": "The US president both threatened to annihilate the Iranian regime and claimed it was no longer a bully",
"published_at": "2026-09-22T17:53:33.545+01:00"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.telegraphAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | telegraph.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | ||||
| data.articles[].excerpt | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.bio | string | No | ||||
| data.job_title | string | No | ||||
| data.name | 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/telegraph/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fauthors%2Fc%2Fck-co%2Fcon-coughlin%2F" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"