Endpoint Playground
Returns an author profile from i (inews.co.uk) by `url`, a canonical `https://inews.co.uk/author/<slug>` link. The response has `name`, `bio`, `image_url`, `same_as` social profiles and up to about 30 recent articles, each with title, URL, summary, section and `published_at`. Paginated or non-author URLs return 400, and an unknown author returns 404.
14 Oct 2026: 9 articles; 6 fields had a value in every checked item.
Sample value profiles: published_at: 2026-09-14 to 2026-10-12; url: inews.co.uk; title: median 67 characters.
curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/inews/author?url=https%3A%2F%2Finews.co.uk%2Fauthor%2Fsimon-kelner' \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"| Parameter | Type | Required | Prefilled value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | https://inews.co.uk/author/simon-kelner | Canonical i author URL |
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://inews.co.uk/author/simon-kelner",
"name": "Simon Kelner",
"bio": "Simon Kelner was editor-in-chief of The Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers from May 1998 to 2008. He now writes a column several times a week for The i Paper",
"image_url": "https://inews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/SEI_278701169-e1773929225489.jpg",
"same_as": [
"https://twitter.com/simon_kelner"
],
"articles": [
{
"title": "Musicians in the 1960s used to stand for something - Ed Sheeran should be ashamed",
"url": "https://inews.co.uk/opinion/musicians-1960s-stand-something-ed-sheeran-be-ashamed-4773408",
"summary": "Ed Sheeran's silence says a lot",
"published_at": "2026-09-16T06:00:00Z",
"section": "Opinion"
}
]
}
}The sample response, schema and code snippets below work without an account. Sending a live request needs an API key.