IOL

Get an IOL author profile

Returns an IOL author profile, identified by slug (such as xolile-mtembu) or a canonical iol.co.za/authors/<slug>/ url; provide exactly one. The response has the name, role and image_url when present, and up to 25 recent articles with title, URL, summary, section and a published_date taken from the article URL. Unknown authors return not found.

get/iol/author

Request

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

Query parameters

slugstring

Author slug, e.g. xolile-mtembu

urlstring

Canonical iol.co.za/authors/<slug>/ URL; alternative to slug

Headers

x-api-keystring required

API key required

Response

OK

Changes

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