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authors

Author profile with biography, publication statistics, genres, ratings, and verification status. Used for book databases, publishing platforms, and literary management systems.

🎯 Request Builder

https://api.mockly.codes/authors?page=1&limit=10&count=10
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Configure your request and click Send Request to see the response here.

Endpoints

GET/authors

Get a collection of authors

Alternative: /people/authors
GET/authors/:id

Get a single author by ID

Alternative: /people/authors/:id
GET/authors/meta

Get resource metadata and schema

Alternative: /people/authors/meta
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How to Use Search

The search feature allows you to filter results by searching for text across all or specific fields. Choose between ?q= or ?search= parameter names.

1. Basic Search

Search across all text fields:

Basic Search
GET https://api.mockly.codes/authors?q=laptop

2. Search Specific Fields

Field-Specific Search
GET https://api.mockly.codes/authors?q=laptop&search_fields=name,description

💡 Pro Tips

  • •Search is case-insensitive and performs partial matching
  • •Without search_fields, all text fields are searched
  • •Combine with pagination to handle large result sets efficiently

Code Examples

JavaScript

Fetch Collection
// Get 10 authors
fetch('https://api.mockly.codes/authors?count=10')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data));

Python

Fetch with Requests
import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://api.mockly.codes/authors?count=10'
)
data = response.json()

cURL

Command Line
curl "https://api.mockly.codes/authors?count=10"

Bypass Cache

Get Fresh Data
fetch('https://api.mockly.codes/authors?nocache=true')

Schema Properties

idinteger

Unique identifier for the author

Gen:random_int
namestring

Full name of the author

Gen:name
emailstring

Author's contact email address

Gen:emailemail
biostring

Author biography or background information

Gen:paragraph
photostring

URL to the author's photo or portrait

Gen:avataruri
websitestring

Author's personal or professional website URL

Gen:urluri
books_countinteger

Total number of books published by this author

Gen:random_int
articles_countinteger

Total number of articles written by this author

Gen:random_int
genresarray

Array of genres the author writes in (e.g., Fiction, Non-Fiction, Mystery)

Gen:tags
ratingnumber

Average reader rating of the author's works, typically on a scale of 1-5

Gen:float
verifiedboolean

Whether the author account is verified as authentic

Gen:boolean

Query Parameters

countinteger

Number of items to return (default: 10, max: 100)

seedinteger

Seed for reproducible data generation

nocacheboolean

Bypass cache and generate fresh data on every request