Endpoint Playground
Returns a Philadelphia Inquirer staff author profile by `slug` (for example `gammage_jeff`) or an inquirer.com author `url`; supply exactly one. The response has `name`, `role`, `biography`, `image_url`, public web social links (no email or phone) and the latest 20 stories, with no paging. An unknown slug returns a 404 error.
14 Oct 2026: 20 articles; 6 fields had a value in every checked item and 1 varied between items.
Sample value profiles: published_at: 2026-07-22 to 2026-10-06; url: inquirer.com; title: median 101 characters.
curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/phillyinquirer/author' \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"| Parameter | Type | Required | Prefilled value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | No | Author slug, e.g. gammage_jeff | |
| url | string | No | Canonical inquirer.com/author/<slug> URL; alternative to slug |
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"name": "Jeff Gammage",
"slug": "gammage_jeff",
"url": "https://www.inquirer.com/author/gammage_jeff/",
"role": "I cover immigration in the Philadelphia region.",
"biography": [
"Example biography paragraph."
],
"social_links": [
{
"platform": "bluesky",
"url": "https://bsky.app/profile/example"
}
],
"articles": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.inquirer.com/news/example-story-20260924.html",
"type": "news",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T16:21:30Z",
"author": "Jeff Gammage"
}
]
}
}The sample response, schema and code snippets below work without an account. Sending a live request needs an API key.