Author Finder API
Find the author and their email address from an article URL, with a simple API call.
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The Author Finder requires an online article URL. It returns the author's name, the email address, and a confidence score. If the email address is displayed somewhere online, the sources are also returned. 


GET https://api.hunter.io/v2/author-finder?url=https://hunter.io/blog/how-to-know-if-someone-read-your-email/&api_key=API_KEY

{
    "data": {
      "first_name": "Irina",
      "last_name": "Maltseva",
      "email": "irina@hunter.io",
      "score": 99,
      "domain": "hunter.io",
      "accept_all": false,
      "position": "Head of Marketing",
      "twitter": "irinamaltseva",
      "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinamaltseva",
      "phone_number": null,
      "company": "Hunter",
      "sources": [
        {
          "domain": "hunter.io",
          "uri": "http://hunter.io/blog/author/irina",
          "extracted_on": "2020-10-09",
          "last_seen_on": "2020-11-15",
          "still_on_page": true
        }
      ],
      "verification": {
        "date": "2021-02-11",
        "status": "valid"
      }
    },
    "meta": {
      "params": {
        "url": "https://hunter.io/blog/how-to-know-if-someone-read-your-email/",
        "max_duration": null
      }
    }
  }

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