Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes critic directory

Returns current or inactive critics from Rotten Tomatoes' public author directory. Browse one letter or search by name; use next_cursor as after or previous_cursor as before, as indicated by the corresponding page flag. The letter values come from the live directory controls.

get/rottentomatoes/critics/authors

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1
  • URL: https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rottentomatoes/critics/authors
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

letter'#' | 'a' | 'b' | 'c' | 'd' | 'e' | 'f' | 'g' | 'h' | 'i' | 'j' | 'k' | 'l' | 'm' | 'n' | 'o' | 'p' | 'q' | 'r' | 's' | 't' | 'u' | 'v' | 'w' | 'x' | 'y' | 'z'

Directory letter. Omit when using search; default a.

searchstring

Search critics by name; cannot be combined with letter

inactiveboolean

Include the site's inactive critics list

afterstring

Opaque cursor from data.next_cursor

beforestring

Opaque cursor from data.previous_cursor; cannot be combined with after

limitinteger

Rows per page, default 100, range 1 to 100

Headers

x-api-keystring required

API key required

Response

OK

codeinteger
msgstring

Example response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "authors": [
      {
        "badges": [
          "Individually approved"
        ],
        "name": "Mae Abdulbaki",
        "path": "/critics/mae-abdulbaki",
        "publication_label": "when published by",
        "publications": [
          {
            "editorial_url": "https://example.com/reviews",
            "id": "2784",
            "name": "Firstpost",
            "path": "/critics/source/2784"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-26T10:00:00Z",
    "has_next_page": true,
    "letter": "a",
    "limit": 100,
    "next_cursor": "MQ==",
    "previous_cursor": "MA==",
    "public_page_derived": true,
    "source_url": "https://www.rottentomatoes.com/napi/critics/authors?isInactiveCriticsList=false&letter=a&pageCount=100&userToken=null"
  },
  "msg": "OK"
}

Changes

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