/costar/authors

POST /api/costar/authors

Price: 20 credits

Get a CoStar News journalist profile by author GUID or profile URL. Returns the reporter name, URL slug, newsroom affiliation, contact e-mail, X/Twitter handle, portrait image, full biography and how many articles they have published.

How to use it

Look up a CoStar News reporter. Pass author as the GUID from a costar.com/author/... URL (article records expose it in authors[].id). Use costar/authors/articles to page through everything they wrote.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• author string required — CoStar author GUID or full author profile URL (examples: "00000164-a401-d8a0-ab77-b5c5deb90000"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "CostarAuthor")
• id string required
• alias string nullable
• url string required
• name string nullable
• affiliation string nullable
• email string nullable
• twitter string nullable
• bio string nullable
• image string nullable
• article_count integer nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Author not found Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.