# /npr/authors/articles

`POST /api/npr/authors/articles`

Price: 20 credits

List the stories published by one NPR journalist, host or contributor, newest first: headline, teaser, publication date, section, program, lead image with caption and credit, and the direct mp3 and duration when the story was broadcast.

## How to use it

List what one NPR person has published. Pass the people id from npr/articles authors[].id or a https://www.npr.org/people/{id}/{slug} URL, plus count. Stories come back newest first with id (usable in npr/articles), article_title, description, web_url, published_date as YYYY-MM-DD, section, show, image and audio_url with duration in seconds.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `author` (string, required) — NPR people id or the full npr.org people URL (examples: "2100593", "https://www.npr.org/people/g-s1-128730/maham-javaid"; minLength: 1)
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of stories to return (min: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "NprStoryCard")
- `id` (string, required)
- `article_title` (string, required)
- `description` (string, nullable)
- `web_url` (string, nullable)
- `published_date` (string, nullable)
- `section` (string, nullable)
- `section_url` (string, nullable)
- `show` (string, nullable)
- `show_url` (string, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `image_caption` (string, nullable)
- `image_credit` (string, nullable)
- `audio_id` (string, nullable)
- `audio_url` (string, nullable)
- `duration` (integer, nullable)
- `has_audio` (boolean) (default: false)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: 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 NPR person with this id — the id is unknown or points at another kind of page

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these 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.