---
title: "Get a Sporting News author profile"
method: GET
path: "/sportingnews/author"
tags: ["Sporting News"]
---

# Get a Sporting News author profile

`GET /sportingnews/author`

## Request

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

Returns a Sporting News US author's profile, looked up by `slug` (for example `anne-erickson`) or canonical `url`; exactly one is required. The response has the name, `bio`, photo, social links and about 20 recent articles, each with title, URL, section, author, publication time and image. There is no pagination, and an unknown author returns not-found.

## Query parameters

- `slug` string
- `url` string

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- PublicnewsSportingNewsAuthorResponseDoc
  - `data` SportingnewsAuthorResponse
    - `articles` SportingnewsAuthorArticle[]
      - `author` string
      - `image_url` string
      - `published_at` string
      - `section` string
      - `title` string
      - `url` string
    - `bio` string
    - `image_url` string
    - `name` string
    - `slug` string
    - `social_links` string[]
    - `url` string

## Other responses

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

---

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