---
title: "Get a Collider author profile"
method: GET
path: "/collider/author"
tags: ["Collider"]
---

# Get a Collider author profile

`GET /collider/author`

## Request

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

Returns a Collider author profile for a `url` of the form `https://collider.com/author/<slug>/`. The response has the name, title, image, biography, `social_links` (type and URL) and the roughly 20 latest articles on the profile. Paginated author URLs are rejected, so older articles are not available.

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- PublicnewsColliderAuthorResponseDoc
  - `data` ColliderAuthorResponse
    - `articles` NewsplatformHeadlineItem[]
      - `author` string
      - `image_url` string
      - `published_at` string
      - `summary` string
      - `title` string
      - `type` string
      - `url` string
    - `biography` string
    - `image_url` string
    - `name` string
    - `social_links` ValnetAuthorSocialLink[]
      - `type` string
      - `url` string
    - `title` string
    - `url` string

## Other responses

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

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