WIRED API endpoint
Returns one WIRED contributor's public profile: name, job title, biography, headshot, social links, and their recent articles from a canonical author URL.
/wired/authorQuery parameter: required url, a canonical WIRED contributor URL (e.g. https://www.wired.com/author/lauren-goode/). Query strings and fragments are stripped; the URL is canonicalized to https://www.wired.com.
Returns one WIRED contributor's public profile: name, job_title, biography paragraphs, image_url (headshot), social_links, and their recent articles (title, url, published_at).
| Field | Filled in, of 20 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 20 | |
| url | 20 | wired.com |
| published_at | 20 |
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical WIRED author URL | https://www.wired.com/author/lauren-goode/ | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/wired/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fauthor%2Flauren-goode%2F" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"url": "https://www.wired.com/author/example-author/",
"name": "Example Author",
"job_title": "Senior Correspondent",
"biography": [
"Example Author is a senior correspondent at WIRED covering example topics."
],
"image_url": "https://media.wired.com/photos/example/2:3/w_1200,h_1800,c_limit/example-author.jpg",
"social_links": [
"https://www.twitter.com/ExampleAuthor"
],
"articles": [
{
"title": "An Example WIRED Headline",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/example-story/",
"published_at": "Sep 22, 2026 9:00 AM"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/wired.authorResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | wired.AuthorResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | ||||
| data.articles[].published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.articles[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.biography | array | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.job_title | string | No | ||||
| data.name | string | No | ||||
| data.social_links | array | No | ||||
| data.url | string | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | #/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/wired/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fauthor%2Flauren-goode%2F" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"