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Toronto Star API endpoint

Toronto Star author profile API

Returns one Toronto Star author's public profile: name, job title, biography, location and topic focus, avatar, and their recent articles.

GETapiKey2 credits/requestToronto Starpublicnews.torontoStarAuthorResponseDoc/torontostar/author

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /torontostar/author
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: Toronto Star
Response schema: #/definitions/publicnews.torontoStarAuthorResponseDoc

Toronto Star Scraper API Try Toronto Star author profile API in Playground Toronto Star API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

slug (optional): the author's profile slug, e.g. omar-mosleh (the last segment of the thestar.com/users/profile/<slug> link on a byline; matched case-insensitively).
url (optional): a canonical https://www.thestar.com/users/profile/<slug> URL, as an alternative to slug.

Exactly one of slug/url is required. The response is the single page of recent articles shown on the profile (no further pagination); each article has title, url and, when the card shows them, a summary and published_at. job_title, bio, location, topics and image_url are omitted when the profile leaves them blank. Contact email and social links are not returned. An unknown author returns a not-found error.

Example response (truncated):

{"code":200,"data":{"name":"Omar Mosleh","slug":"omar-mosleh","url":"https://www.thestar.com/users/profile/omar-mosleh","job_title":"Staff Reporter","bio":"Omar Mosleh is a Toronto-based reporter for the Star. He previously was based in Alberta.","location":"Edmonton, Alberta","topics":"Generalist","image_url":"https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/thestar.com/content/tncms/avatars/b/7e/5fd/b7e5fd3a-a243-11ed-8909-6367051164ce.37a17bb94b37c933d33dbd8b32a1c1ad.png","articles":[{"title":"Suicide victims' families confront Ontario poison seller Kenneth Law","url":"https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/court-set-to-hear-from-victims-families-in-case-of-international-poison-seller-kenneth-law/article_e760a06a-60da-49b6-ae00-fe14e1b5eb5b.html","summary":"You may one day regain your freedom, Mr. Law, but you will never erase the consequences of what you did.","published_at":"2026-09-24T13:02:54Z"}]}}

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /torontostar/author?slug=omar-mosleh
Items in articles: 8
Fields filled in every checked item: 4

Field	Filled in, of 8 checked	Values in the sample
title	8	median 97 characters
url	8	thestar.com
summary	8	median 115 characters
published_at	8	2026-09-24 to 2026-10-13

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
slug	string	No	Author profile slug (thestar.com/users/profile/<slug>); use this or url	omar-mosleh
url	string	No	Canonical thestar.com/users/profile/<slug> URL; alternative to slug	https://www.thestar.com/users/profile/omar-mosleh/
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes	API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/torontostar/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Omar Mosleh",
    "slug": "omar-mosleh",
    "url": "https://www.thestar.com/users/profile/omar-mosleh",
    "job_title": "Staff Reporter",
    "bio": "Omar Mosleh is a Toronto-based reporter for the Star. He previously was based in Alberta.",
    "location": "Edmonton, Alberta",
    "topics": "Generalist",
    "image_url": "https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/thestar.com/content/tncms/avatars/b/7e/5fd/b7e5fd3a-a243-11ed-8909-6367051164ce.37a17bb94b37c933d33dbd8b32a1c1ad.png",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Suicide victims' families confront Ontario poison seller Kenneth Law",
        "url": "https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/court-set-to-hear-from-victims-families-in-case-of-international-poison-seller-kenneth-law/article_e760a06a-60da-49b6-ae00-fe14e1b5eb5b.html",
        "summary": "You may one day regain your freedom, Mr. Law, but you will never erase the consequences of what you did.",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T13:02:54Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/publicnews.torontoStarAuthorResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required
data	torontostar.AuthorResponse	No
data.articles	array	No
data.articles[].published_at	string	No
data.articles[].summary	string	No
data.articles[].title	string	No
data.articles[].url	string	No
data.bio	string	No
data.image_url	string	No
data.job_title	string	No
data.location	string	No
data.name	string	No
data.slug	string	No
data.topics	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/torontostar/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Shared guides

Authentication Errors and retries Rate limits and credits Pricing Acceptable use

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Toronto Star API endpoint

Toronto Star author profile API

Returns one Toronto Star author's public profile: name, job title, biography, location and topic focus, avatar, and their recent articles.

GETapiKey2 credits/requestToronto Starpublicnews.torontoStarAuthorResponseDoc/torontostar/author

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /torontostar/author
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: Toronto Star
Response schema: #/definitions/publicnews.torontoStarAuthorResponseDoc

Toronto Star Scraper API Try Toronto Star author profile API in Playground Toronto Star API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

slug (optional): the author's profile slug, e.g. omar-mosleh (the last segment of the thestar.com/users/profile/<slug> link on a byline; matched case-insensitively).
url (optional): a canonical https://www.thestar.com/users/profile/<slug> URL, as an alternative to slug.

Example response (truncated):

{"code":200,"data":{"name":"Omar Mosleh","slug":"omar-mosleh","url":"https://www.thestar.com/users/profile/omar-mosleh","job_title":"Staff Reporter","bio":"Omar Mosleh is a Toronto-based reporter for the Star. He previously was based in Alberta.","location":"Edmonton, Alberta","topics":"Generalist","image_url":"https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/thestar.com/content/tncms/avatars/b/7e/5fd/b7e5fd3a-a243-11ed-8909-6367051164ce.37a17bb94b37c933d33dbd8b32a1c1ad.png","articles":[{"title":"Suicide victims' families confront Ontario poison seller Kenneth Law","url":"https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/court-set-to-hear-from-victims-families-in-case-of-international-poison-seller-kenneth-law/article_e760a06a-60da-49b6-ae00-fe14e1b5eb5b.html","summary":"You may one day regain your freedom, Mr. Law, but you will never erase the consequences of what you did.","published_at":"2026-09-24T13:02:54Z"}]}}

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /torontostar/author?slug=omar-mosleh
Items in articles: 8
Fields filled in every checked item: 4

Field	Filled in, of 8 checked	Values in the sample
title	8	median 97 characters
url	8	thestar.com
summary	8	median 115 characters
published_at	8	2026-09-24 to 2026-10-13

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
slug	string	No	Author profile slug (thestar.com/users/profile/<slug>); use this or url	omar-mosleh
url	string	No	Canonical thestar.com/users/profile/<slug> URL; alternative to slug	https://www.thestar.com/users/profile/omar-mosleh/
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes	API key required

cURL example

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/torontostar/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Omar Mosleh",
    "slug": "omar-mosleh",
    "url": "https://www.thestar.com/users/profile/omar-mosleh",
    "job_title": "Staff Reporter",
    "bio": "Omar Mosleh is a Toronto-based reporter for the Star. He previously was based in Alberta.",
    "location": "Edmonton, Alberta",
    "topics": "Generalist",
    "image_url": "https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/thestar.com/content/tncms/avatars/b/7e/5fd/b7e5fd3a-a243-11ed-8909-6367051164ce.37a17bb94b37c933d33dbd8b32a1c1ad.png",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Suicide victims' families confront Ontario poison seller Kenneth Law",
        "url": "https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/court-set-to-hear-from-victims-families-in-case-of-international-poison-seller-kenneth-law/article_e760a06a-60da-49b6-ae00-fe14e1b5eb5b.html",
        "summary": "You may one day regain your freedom, Mr. Law, but you will never erase the consequences of what you did.",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T13:02:54Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/publicnews.torontoStarAuthorResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required
data	torontostar.AuthorResponse	No
data.articles	array	No
data.articles[].published_at	string	No
data.articles[].summary	string	No
data.articles[].title	string	No
data.articles[].url	string	No
data.bio	string	No
data.image_url	string	No
data.job_title	string	No
data.location	string	No
data.name	string	No
data.slug	string	No
data.topics	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/torontostar/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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Toronto Star author profile API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

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Toronto Star author profile API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

Related