---
title: "Get a Manchester Evening News author profile"
method: GET
path: "/men/author"
tags: ["Manchester Evening News"]
---

# Get a Manchester Evening News author profile

`GET /men/author`

## Request

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

Returns a Manchester Evening News author profile, identified by `slug` (such as `lee-swettenham`) or a canonical `manchestereveningnews.co.uk/authors/<slug>/` `url`; provide exactly one. The response has the name, job title, bio, `email`, `twitter` and one page of recent articles with title, URL and label. Contact fields are absent when unlisted.

## Query parameters

- `slug` string
- `url` string

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- PublicnewsMenAuthorResponseDoc
  - `data` MenAuthorResponse
    - `articles` MenAuthorArticle[]
      - `label` string
      - `label_url` string
      - `title` string
      - `url` string
    - `bio` string
    - `email` string
    - `job_title` string
    - `name` string
    - `slug` string
    - `twitter` string
    - `url` string

## Other responses

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

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