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Try the FT author profile API

Test Crawlora's FT author profile API with realistic prefilled parameters. Generate a cURL request, inspect the expected structured JSON response, and open the full docs or pricing page when you are ready to integrate this public web data extraction endpoint into your application.

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /ft/author
Platform: FT
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Required params: None
Common optional params: slug, url, page

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Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/ft/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
slug	string	No	Author URL slug, e.g. martin-wolf
url	string	No	Canonical www.ft.com/<slug> author URL; alternative to slug
page	integer	No	1-based page number of the author's article list

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Martin Wolf",
    "slug": "martin-wolf",
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/martin-wolf",
    "job_title": "Chief Economics Commentator",
    "email": "martin.wolf@ft.com",
    "social_accounts": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://www.twitter.com/@martinwolf_"
      }
    ],
    "page": 1,
    "has_more": true,
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "With AI, 'I told you so' will be too late",
        "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/9dd894cd-dddd-4388-ac00-dbd14d40dc52",
        "summary": "Reducing the speed of innovation is going to be hard, both practically and politically",
        "section": "Artificial intelligence"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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Method

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Endpoint

GETapiKey2 credits/requestft.authorResponseDocFT

GET /ft/author

Get an FT author profile

Returns one Financial Times contributor's public byline profile (name, job title, email, social accounts) plus one page of their recent articles. FT author pages carry no bio paragraph, only this byline metadata.

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Martin Wolf",
    "slug": "martin-wolf",
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/martin-wolf",
    "job_title": "Chief Economics Commentator",
    "email": "martin.wolf@ft.com",
    "social_accounts": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://www.twitter.com/@martinwolf_"
      }
    ],
    "page": 1,
    "has_more": true,
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "With AI, 'I told you so' will be too late",
        "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/9dd894cd-dddd-4388-ac00-dbd14d40dc52",
        "summary": "Reducing the speed of innovation is going to be hard, both practically and politically",
        "section": "Artificial intelligence"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint details

Method: GET
Path: /ft/author
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Platform: FT
Parameters: 4 documented fields

Request parameters

slug:queryurl:querypage:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

codedatadata.articlesdata.articles[].image_urldata.articles[].published_atdata.articles[].sectiondata.articles[].summarydata.articles[].titledata.articles[].urldata.emaildata.has_moredata.image_url

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Martin Wolf",
    "slug": "martin-wolf",
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/martin-wolf",
    "job_title": "Chief Economics Commentator",
    "email": "martin.wolf@ft.com",
    "social_accounts": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://www.twitter.com/@martinwolf_"
      }
    ],
    "page": 1,
    "has_more": true,
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "With AI, 'I told you so' will be too late",
        "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/9dd894cd-dddd-4388-ac00-dbd14d40dc52",
        "summary": "Reducing the speed of innovation is going to be hard, both practically and politically",
        "section": "Artificial intelligence"
      }
    ]
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/ft/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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Try the FT author profile API

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /ft/author
Platform: FT
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Required params: None
Common optional params: slug, url, page

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/ft/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
slug	string	No	Author URL slug, e.g. martin-wolf
url	string	No	Canonical www.ft.com/<slug> author URL; alternative to slug
page	integer	No	1-based page number of the author's article list

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Martin Wolf",
    "slug": "martin-wolf",
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/martin-wolf",
    "job_title": "Chief Economics Commentator",
    "email": "martin.wolf@ft.com",
    "social_accounts": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://www.twitter.com/@martinwolf_"
      }
    ],
    "page": 1,
    "has_more": true,
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "With AI, 'I told you so' will be too late",
        "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/9dd894cd-dddd-4388-ac00-dbd14d40dc52",
        "summary": "Reducing the speed of innovation is going to be hard, both practically and politically",
        "section": "Artificial intelligence"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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Endpoint

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Method

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Endpoint

GETapiKey2 credits/requestft.authorResponseDocFT

GET /ft/author

Get an FT author profile

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Martin Wolf",
    "slug": "martin-wolf",
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/martin-wolf",
    "job_title": "Chief Economics Commentator",
    "email": "martin.wolf@ft.com",
    "social_accounts": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://www.twitter.com/@martinwolf_"
      }
    ],
    "page": 1,
    "has_more": true,
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "With AI, 'I told you so' will be too late",
        "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/9dd894cd-dddd-4388-ac00-dbd14d40dc52",
        "summary": "Reducing the speed of innovation is going to be hard, both practically and politically",
        "section": "Artificial intelligence"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint details

Method: GET
Path: /ft/author
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Platform: FT
Parameters: 4 documented fields

Request parameters

slug:queryurl:querypage:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

codedatadata.articlesdata.articles[].image_urldata.articles[].published_atdata.articles[].sectiondata.articles[].summarydata.articles[].titledata.articles[].urldata.emaildata.has_moredata.image_url

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "name": "Martin Wolf",
    "slug": "martin-wolf",
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/martin-wolf",
    "job_title": "Chief Economics Commentator",
    "email": "martin.wolf@ft.com",
    "social_accounts": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://www.twitter.com/@martinwolf_"
      }
    ],
    "page": 1,
    "has_more": true,
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "With AI, 'I told you so' will be too late",
        "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/9dd894cd-dddd-4388-ac00-dbd14d40dc52",
        "summary": "Reducing the speed of innovation is going to be hard, both practically and politically",
        "section": "Artificial intelligence"
      }
    ]
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/ft/author" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"