POST/v1/email/author-finder

Author Finder API

Find the email of the author behind any article or blog URL.

Point the Author Finder at any article, blog post, or press-release URL and it returns the contact details of the person who wrote it — email, full name, role, and social profiles where available. Ideal for digital PR, link building, and journalist outreach.

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POST/v1/email/author-finderauthor-finder$0.02/call

Response

Example response — hit "Send Request" to see a live result

{
  "data": {
    "contact": {
      "acceptAll": false,
      "company": null,
      "companyDomain": null,
      "confidenceScore": 0,
      "country": null,
      "department": null,
      "disposable": false,
      "email": null,
      "firstName": null,
      "fullName": null,
      "gender": null,
      "hasPhone": false,
      "lastName": null,
      "linkedin": null,
      "position": null,
      "seniority": null,
      "sources": [],
      "twitter": null,
      "type": null,
      "verificationStatus": null,
      "verified": false,
      "webmail": false
    }
  },
  "ok": true
}

Features

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Author email from a single URL

Pass one article URL and the endpoint resolves the writer's contact record, so you skip the manual hunt through bylines and about pages.

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Full contact profile, not just an address

Results include full name, position, department, LinkedIn and Twitter handles, and a confidence score alongside the email.

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Verification signals included

Each response carries verified, verificationStatus, disposable, and accept-all flags so you can filter to deliverable contacts.

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Built for PR and link building

Turn a list of published URLs into a list of the people behind them for outreach, guest-post pitches, or unlinked-mention reclamation.

Use cases

Digital PR Outreach

Find the journalist or blogger behind a piece of coverage and pitch them directly for your next story.

Link Building

Identify the author of a page linking to a competitor so you can request a mention or replacement link.

Content Partnerships

Reach out to writers in your niche for guest posts, quotes, or co-marketing.

Quick start

Copy this snippet and start making calls.

const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/email/author-finder', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "url": "https://example.com/blog/post"
  }),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

The author finder API — the email behind any article

The Author Finder API turns a published URL into the contact record of the person who wrote it: email, name, role, and social handles, with verification flags so you only pitch deliverable addresses. It's purpose-built for digital PR, journalist outreach, and link building at scale.

At $0.02 a call with $5 of free credit and no monthly minimums, it's a pay-per-lookup alternative to Hunter.io's author search. Feed it a list of coverage URLs and get back a ready-to-contact outreach list under one API key.

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Frequently asked questions

Each API call costs $0.02. No monthly minimums or subscriptions — you only pay for what you use.

Sign up for a free API key, then send a POST request to /v1/email/author-finder. Check the code example above for a ready-to-use snippet in JavaScript, cURL, or Python.

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