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Wall Street Journal API endpoint

Wall Street Journal author profile API

Returns one Wall Street Journal author's profile (name, job title, bio, and social links when available) and the recent articles listed on their author page, read directly from the live page. The author page sits behind the same access wall as article pages, so a nonexistent author slug returns 404.

GETapiKey6 credits/requestWall Street Journalwsj.authorResponseDoc/wsj/author

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /wsj/author
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 6 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: Wall Street Journal
Execution: Managed browser rendering where the target needs it
Response schema: #/definitions/wsj.authorResponseDoc

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How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

slug (optional): a WSJ author slug, e.g. matt-grossman.
url (optional): a canonical https://www.wsj.com/news/author/<slug> URL, as an alternative to slug.

Exactly one of slug/url is required.

Returns one Wall Street Journal author's profile — name, job_title, bio, email, and social_accounts when the page shows them — plus the recent articles listed on that author's page (each with a title, url, and published_at when WSJ's own page data includes it).

Behavior:

The author-listing page itself is not paywalled content (WSJ paywalls article bodies, not the byline directory), but it sits behind the same anti-bot wall as the rest of wsj.com, so this endpoint fetches the live page through the production browser-rendering fleet rather than a plain request, which the origin challenges. No WSJ cookies, login state, or subscription are used.
A nonexistent author slug returns 404. A page that clears the anti-bot wall but carries no usable profile/article content returns 503 rather than a hollow success.
Non-wsj.com hosts and malformed author URLs return 400 before any upstream request.
job_title, bio, email, and social_accounts reflect whatever the live page actually shows; any of them can be absent for a given author.

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /wsj/author?slug=matt-grossman
Items in articles: 50
Fields filled in every checked item: 3

Field	Filled in, of 50 checked	Values in the sample
title	50
url	50	wsj.com
published_at	50	2026-08-06 to 2026-10-11

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
slug	string	No	WSJ author slug	matt-grossman
url	string	No	Canonical https://www.wsj.com/news/author/<slug> URL, as an alternative to slug	https://www.wsj.com/news/author/matt-grossman
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes	API key required

cURL example

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

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.wsj.com/news/author/matt-grossman",
    "name": "Matt Grossman",
    "job_title": "Reporter",
    "bio": "Matt Grossman covers economics for The Wall Street Journal from Washington, D.C. He writes about economic trends and policy developments and contributes to coverage of the Federal Reserve.",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "social_accounts": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://www.twitter.com/mattgrossman"
      },
      {
        "platform": "linkedin",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-grossman-83714983/"
      }
    ],
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "New Report on SVB Collapse Pins Blame on Fed’s Own Regulators, Fed Official Says",
        "url": "https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/new-fed-report-on-svb-collapse-pins-blame-on-feds-own-regulators-9a3cb062",
        "published_at": "2026-09-18T17:51:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/wsj.authorResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Example
code	integer	No	200
data	wsj.AuthorResponse	No
data.articles	array	No
data.articles[].published_at	string	No
data.articles[].title	string	No
data.articles[].url	string	No
data.bio	string	No
data.email	string	No
data.job_title	string	No
data.name	string	No
data.social_accounts	array	No
data.social_accounts[].platform	string	No
data.social_accounts[].url	string	No
data.url	string	No
msg	string	No	OK

Failure responses

Status	Description	Schema
400	Bad Request	#/definitions/app.Response
403	Forbidden	#/definitions/app.Response
404	Not Found	#/definitions/app.Response
429	Too Many Requests	#/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/wsj/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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Wall Street Journal API endpoint

Wall Street Journal author profile API

GETapiKey6 credits/requestWall Street Journalwsj.authorResponseDoc/wsj/author

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /wsj/author
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 6 credits/request
Charged on: Successful 2xx responses only
Platform: Wall Street Journal
Execution: Managed browser rendering where the target needs it
Response schema: #/definitions/wsj.authorResponseDoc

Wall Street Journal API Try Wall Street Journal author profile API in Playground Wall Street Journal API documentation

How this endpoint behaves

Query parameters:

slug (optional): a WSJ author slug, e.g. matt-grossman.
url (optional): a canonical https://www.wsj.com/news/author/<slug> URL, as an alternative to slug.

Exactly one of slug/url is required.

Behavior:

The author-listing page itself is not paywalled content (WSJ paywalls article bodies, not the byline directory), but it sits behind the same anti-bot wall as the rest of wsj.com, so this endpoint fetches the live page through the production browser-rendering fleet rather than a plain request, which the origin challenges. No WSJ cookies, login state, or subscription are used.
A nonexistent author slug returns 404. A page that clears the anti-bot wall but carries no usable profile/article content returns 503 rather than a hollow success.
Non-wsj.com hosts and malformed author URLs return 400 before any upstream request.
job_title, bio, email, and social_accounts reflect whatever the live page actually shows; any of them can be absent for a given author.

Sampled response

Request, 14 Oct 2026: GET /wsj/author?slug=matt-grossman
Items in articles: 50
Fields filled in every checked item: 3

Field	Filled in, of 50 checked	Values in the sample
title	50
url	50	wsj.com
published_at	50	2026-08-06 to 2026-10-11

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
slug	string	No	WSJ author slug	matt-grossman
url	string	No	Canonical https://www.wsj.com/news/author/<slug> URL, as an alternative to slug	https://www.wsj.com/news/author/matt-grossman
x-api-key (header)	string	Yes	API key required

cURL example

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

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.wsj.com/news/author/matt-grossman",
    "name": "Matt Grossman",
    "job_title": "Reporter",
    "bio": "Matt Grossman covers economics for The Wall Street Journal from Washington, D.C. He writes about economic trends and policy developments and contributes to coverage of the Federal Reserve.",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "social_accounts": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://www.twitter.com/mattgrossman"
      },
      {
        "platform": "linkedin",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-grossman-83714983/"
      }
    ],
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "New Report on SVB Collapse Pins Blame on Fed’s Own Regulators, Fed Official Says",
        "url": "https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/new-fed-report-on-svb-collapse-pins-blame-on-feds-own-regulators-9a3cb062",
        "published_at": "2026-09-18T17:51:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/wsj.authorResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Example
code	integer	No	200
data	wsj.AuthorResponse	No
data.articles	array	No
data.articles[].published_at	string	No
data.articles[].title	string	No
data.articles[].url	string	No
data.bio	string	No
data.email	string	No
data.job_title	string	No
data.name	string	No
data.social_accounts	array	No
data.social_accounts[].platform	string	No
data.social_accounts[].url	string	No
data.url	string	No
msg	string	No	OK

Failure responses

Status	Description	Schema
400	Bad Request	#/definitions/app.Response
403	Forbidden	#/definitions/app.Response
404	Not Found	#/definitions/app.Response
429	Too Many Requests	#/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/wsj/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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Wall Street Journal author profile API

Endpoint facts

How this endpoint behaves

Sampled response

Request parameters

cURL example

Example JSON response

Failure responses

Code examples

Shared guides

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Wall Street Journal 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