/elpais/authors/articles

POST /api/elpais/authors/articles

Price: 5 credits

List the articles El Pais publishes under one byline, newest first, walking the author archive page by page. Returns headline, standfirst, publication time, byline and linked authors, kicker, thumbnail, the body word count El Pais publishes and its subscription badge.

How to use it

Read a journalist's back catalogue on El Pais. alias is the slug used in /autor/ URLs, which elpais/articles and every listing entry return in authors[].alias; a full author page URL is accepted too, an 'en/' prefix switches to english.elpais.com, where the same surface lives under /author/, and a 'cd/' prefix to Cinco Dias. Each entry carries id, article_title, description, web_url, published_at, language, publication, content_type, section, kicker, byline, authors, dateline, has_subscription_badge, has_video, word_count and image; the author template prints no word count, and elpais/articles holds the authoritative subscription tier. Feed id or web_url into elpais/articles for the body, and elpais/authors for the journalist's biography. A byline's catalogue ends where El Pais stops publishing that journalist, so ask for the count you want and read how many rows came back. Collective bylines that El Pais does not link (agency copy, for example) have no alias and cannot be read here, and a house byline such as el-pais fronts evergreen reference pages, which come back with content_type series rather than article.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• alias string required — El Pais author alias, or the URL of the author page; prefix with en/ for the English edition or cd/ for Cinco Dias (examples: "juan-diego-quesada", "https://elpais.com/autor/mariam-martinez-bascunan/", "en/miguel-jimenez", "cd/nuno-rodrigo-palacios"; minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of articles to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "ElpaisArticleCard")
• id string required
• article_title string required
• description string nullable
• web_url string required
• published_at integer nullable
• language string required
• publication string required
• content_type string required
• section string required
• kicker string nullable
• kicker_url string nullable
• byline string nullable
• authors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "ElpaisAuthorRef")
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • profile_url string nullable
  • bio string nullable
  • image string nullable
• dateline string nullable
• has_subscription_badge boolean (default: false)
• has_video boolean (default: false)
• word_count integer nullable
• image string nullable

Errors

• 422 — Not an El Pais author alias or author page URL 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 — No El Pais author page for this alias 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.