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Try the Sydney Morning Herald Journalist API

Test Crawlora's Sydney Morning Herald Journalist 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: /smh/author
Platform: The Sydney Morning Herald
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Required params: url

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Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/smh/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 The Sydney Morning Herald journalist URL

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/by/michael-mcgowan-p536tc",
    "name": "Michael McGowan",
    "bio": "Michael McGowan is state political editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.",
    "image_url": "https://static.ffx.io/images/...",
    "email": "michael.mcgowan@nine.com.au",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "‘Identity rabbit hole’: One Nation cops spray over criticism of Aboriginal flag pin",
        "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/identity-rabbit-hole-one-nation-cops-spray-over-criticism-of-aboriginal-flag-pin-20260924-p6107h.html",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T09:30:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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GETapiKey2 credits/requestpublicnews.smhAuthorResponseDocThe Sydney Morning Herald

GET /smh/author

Get a Sydney Morning Herald journalist profile

Returns a Sydney Morning Herald journalist's public profile -- name, short biography, headshot, contact email and social links where published -- plus their recent stories, from a canonical https://www.smh.com.au/by/<name>-<id> URL.

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Required query parameters

url

requiredstring

Canonical The Sydney Morning Herald journalist URL

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/by/michael-mcgowan-p536tc",
    "name": "Michael McGowan",
    "bio": "Michael McGowan is state political editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.",
    "image_url": "https://static.ffx.io/images/...",
    "email": "michael.mcgowan@nine.com.au",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "‘Identity rabbit hole’: One Nation cops spray over criticism of Aboriginal flag pin",
        "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/identity-rabbit-hole-one-nation-cops-spray-over-criticism-of-aboriginal-flag-pin-20260924-p6107h.html",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T09:30:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint details

Method: GET
Path: /smh/author
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Platform: The Sydney Morning Herald
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.biodata.emaildata.image_url

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/by/michael-mcgowan-p536tc",
    "name": "Michael McGowan",
    "bio": "Michael McGowan is state political editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.",
    "image_url": "https://static.ffx.io/images/...",
    "email": "michael.mcgowan@nine.com.au",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "‘Identity rabbit hole’: One Nation cops spray over criticism of Aboriginal flag pin",
        "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/identity-rabbit-hole-one-nation-cops-spray-over-criticism-of-aboriginal-flag-pin-20260924-p6107h.html",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T09:30:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

cURL example

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

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Try the Sydney Morning Herald Journalist API

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /smh/author
Platform: The Sydney Morning Herald
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Required params: url

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/smh/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 The Sydney Morning Herald journalist URL

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/by/michael-mcgowan-p536tc",
    "name": "Michael McGowan",
    "bio": "Michael McGowan is state political editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.",
    "image_url": "https://static.ffx.io/images/...",
    "email": "michael.mcgowan@nine.com.au",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "‘Identity rabbit hole’: One Nation cops spray over criticism of Aboriginal flag pin",
        "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/identity-rabbit-hole-one-nation-cops-spray-over-criticism-of-aboriginal-flag-pin-20260924-p6107h.html",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T09:30:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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GETapiKey2 credits/requestpublicnews.smhAuthorResponseDocThe Sydney Morning Herald

GET /smh/author

Get a Sydney Morning Herald journalist profile

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API key

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Required query parameters

url

requiredstring

Canonical The Sydney Morning Herald journalist URL

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/by/michael-mcgowan-p536tc",
    "name": "Michael McGowan",
    "bio": "Michael McGowan is state political editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.",
    "image_url": "https://static.ffx.io/images/...",
    "email": "michael.mcgowan@nine.com.au",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "‘Identity rabbit hole’: One Nation cops spray over criticism of Aboriginal flag pin",
        "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/identity-rabbit-hole-one-nation-cops-spray-over-criticism-of-aboriginal-flag-pin-20260924-p6107h.html",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T09:30:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint details

Method: GET
Path: /smh/author
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Platform: The Sydney Morning Herald
Parameters: 2 documented fields

Request parameters

url:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/by/michael-mcgowan-p536tc",
    "name": "Michael McGowan",
    "bio": "Michael McGowan is state political editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.",
    "image_url": "https://static.ffx.io/images/...",
    "email": "michael.mcgowan@nine.com.au",
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "‘Identity rabbit hole’: One Nation cops spray over criticism of Aboriginal flag pin",
        "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/identity-rabbit-hole-one-nation-cops-spray-over-criticism-of-aboriginal-flag-pin-20260924-p6107h.html",
        "published_at": "2026-09-24T09:30:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

cURL example

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