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Times of Israel API endpoint
Times of Israel author profile API
Returns a Times of Israel writer's byline metadata, biography, social links, and recent articles from a canonical writer profile URL.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestTimes of Israelpublicnews.timesOfIsraelAuthorResponseDoc
Times of Israel/timesofisrael/authorEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /timesofisrael/author
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Times of Israel
- Execution
- Managed browser rendering where the target needs it
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.timesOfIsraelAuthorResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameters:
url(required): a canonicalhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/<slug>/URL.
image_url and biography reflect whatever the writer's own page shows -- not every writer page carries a photo or a bio. social_links lists whatever contact/social icons render on the page (an RSS feed link is common); each entry's type is read directly from the page's own icon markup rather than a fixed enum. Each article's published_at is the page's own rendered publish-date text, not a machine-readable timestamp.
Example response (truncated):
{"code":200,"data":{"url":"https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jane-doe/","name":"Jane Doe","image_url":"https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/terms-images/writers/jane-doe.png","biography":["Jane Doe is a reporter for The Times of Israel."],"social_links":[{"type":"twitter","url":"https://twitter.com/janedoe"}],"articles":[{"title":"Example headline","url":"https://www.timesofisrael.com/example-article-slug","published_at":"September 24, 2026, 6:00 am"}]}}
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Times of Israel author URL | https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jane-doe/ | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/timesofisrael/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Fwriters%2Fjane-doe%2F" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jane-doe/",
"name": "Jane Doe",
"image_url": "https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/terms-images/writers/jane-doe.png",
"biography": [
"Jane Doe is a reporter for The Times of Israel."
],
"social_links": [
{
"type": "twitter",
"url": "https://twitter.com/janedoe"
}
],
"articles": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/example-article-slug",
"published_at": "September 24, 2026, 6:00 am"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.timesOfIsraelAuthorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | timesofisrael.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under Times of Israel top stories API. | |||
| data.biography | array | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.social_links | array | No | ||||
| data.social_links[].type | 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/timesofisrael/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Fwriters%2Fjane-doe%2F" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"