---
title: "Get a Business Standard author profile"
method: GET
path: "/businessstandard/author"
tags: ["Business Standard"]
---

# Get a Business Standard author profile

`GET /businessstandard/author`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/businessstandard/author`
- Auth: API key in header `x-api-key`

Returns a Business Standard author's profile from `url`, a canonical `https://www.business-standard.com/author/<slug>` address: name, designation, biography, image, and Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube links where listed, plus about 20 recent stories. Stories carry a title, URL and optionally summary, date and a `premium` flag for subscriber-only text. An unknown author returns `404`.

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- PublicnewsBusinessstandardAuthorResponseDoc
  - `data` BusinessstandardAuthorResponse
    - `articles` BusinessstandardAuthorArticle[]
      - `premium` boolean: Premium is true when the site flags the story as subscriber-only; its text is not available from the article endpoint.
      - `published_at` string
      - `summary` string
      - `title` string
      - `url` string
    - `biography` string[]
    - `designation` string
    - `facebook_url` string
    - `image_url` string
    - `linkedin_url` string
    - `name` string
    - `twitter_url` string
    - `url` string
    - `youtube_url` string

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `404`: Not Found
- `503`: Service Unavailable

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/crawlora/apis/crawlora-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/crawlora/apis/crawlora-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/crawlora/apis/crawlora-api/revisions/afac9b012a27?raw)