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Try the Hindustan Times author profile API

Test Crawlora's Hindustan Times 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: /hindustantimes/author
Platform: Hindustan Times
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Required params: url

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Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/hindustantimes/author?url=<url>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
url	string	Yes		Canonical Hindustan Times author URL

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/author/ht-news-desk-101650005059496",
    "name": "HT News Desk",
    "image_url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2026/06/29/original/ht-news-desk.png",
    "biography": [
      "Follow the latest breaking news, major developments and agenda-setting stories from India and around the world with the newsdesk at Hindustan Times."
    ],
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/example-article-slug-101790173906545.html"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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GET /hindustantimes/author

Get a Hindustan Times author profile

Returns a Hindustan Times author's byline metadata, biography, contact/social links, and their most recent articles (the first page only) from a canonical author URL.

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Required query parameters

url

requiredstring

Canonical Hindustan Times author URL

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/author/ht-news-desk-101650005059496",
    "name": "HT News Desk",
    "image_url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2026/06/29/original/ht-news-desk.png",
    "biography": [
      "Follow the latest breaking news, major developments and agenda-setting stories from India and around the world with the newsdesk at Hindustan Times."
    ],
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/example-article-slug-101790173906545.html"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint details

Returns a Hindustan Times author's byline metadata, biography, contact/social links, and their most recent articles (the first page only) from a canonical author URL.

Method: GET
Path: /hindustantimes/author
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Platform: Hindustan Times
Parameters: 2 documented fields

Request parameters

url:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

datadata.articlesdata.articles[].authordata.articles[].image_urldata.articles[].published_atdata.articles[].summarydata.articles[].titledata.articles[].typedata.articles[].urldata.biographydata.emaildata.facebook_url

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/author/ht-news-desk-101650005059496",
    "name": "HT News Desk",
    "image_url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2026/06/29/original/ht-news-desk.png",
    "biography": [
      "Follow the latest breaking news, major developments and agenda-setting stories from India and around the world with the newsdesk at Hindustan Times."
    ],
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/example-article-slug-101790173906545.html"
      }
    ]
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/hindustantimes/author?url=<url>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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Try the Hindustan Times author profile API

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /hindustantimes/author
Platform: Hindustan Times
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Required params: url

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/hindustantimes/author?url=<url>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
url	string	Yes		Canonical Hindustan Times author URL

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/author/ht-news-desk-101650005059496",
    "name": "HT News Desk",
    "image_url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2026/06/29/original/ht-news-desk.png",
    "biography": [
      "Follow the latest breaking news, major developments and agenda-setting stories from India and around the world with the newsdesk at Hindustan Times."
    ],
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/example-article-slug-101790173906545.html"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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GETapiKey2 credits/requestpublicnews.hindustanTimesAuthorResponseDocHindustan Times

GET /hindustantimes/author

Get a Hindustan Times author profile

Returns a Hindustan Times author's byline metadata, biography, contact/social links, and their most recent articles (the first page only) from a canonical author URL.

API key required. Paste a full key or rotate one from the API Keys page.

Set up API key

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API key

API key required for live requests. Your key is only used to send requests from this Playground.

not configured

Active Playground key: not configured

Manage API keys in Console

Required query parameters

url

requiredstring

Canonical Hindustan Times author URL

Add an API key to send a live request.

If an active API key is configured, Copy cURL includes it. Share links never include API keys.

View docs

Sample responseGET

Shown before your first request. Add an API key and send a request to see the live response, status, latency, and headers.

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/author/ht-news-desk-101650005059496",
    "name": "HT News Desk",
    "image_url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2026/06/29/original/ht-news-desk.png",
    "biography": [
      "Follow the latest breaking news, major developments and agenda-setting stories from India and around the world with the newsdesk at Hindustan Times."
    ],
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/example-article-slug-101790173906545.html"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint details

Returns a Hindustan Times author's byline metadata, biography, contact/social links, and their most recent articles (the first page only) from a canonical author URL.

Method: GET
Path: /hindustantimes/author
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Platform: Hindustan Times
Parameters: 2 documented fields

Request parameters

url:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/author/ht-news-desk-101650005059496",
    "name": "HT News Desk",
    "image_url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2026/06/29/original/ht-news-desk.png",
    "biography": [
      "Follow the latest breaking news, major developments and agenda-setting stories from India and around the world with the newsdesk at Hindustan Times."
    ],
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Example headline",
        "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/example-article-slug-101790173906545.html"
      }
    ]
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/hindustantimes/author?url=<url>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"