API Documentation

Author Finder API

Find the verified email address and full profile of any article or blog post author from a URL.

Author Finder API

LIVE

Article URL

Real API data no signup required

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.tomba.io/v1/author-finder?url=https://blog.example.com/post' \
  --header 'X-Tomba-Key: ta_xxxxxxxxxxxx' \
  --header 'X-Tomba-Secret: ts_xxxxxxxxxxxx'

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{
  "data": {
    "email": "author@example.com",
    "first_name": "Sarah",
    "last_name": "Chen",
    "position": "Content Lead",
    "company": "TechCorp",
    "score": 88,
    "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/in/sarahchen",
    "phone_number": "+1 555-123-4567"
  }
}

Based on verified reviews

The Most Reliable Author Finder API API

Tomba has the largest B2B email crawler on the web. We process billions of pages monthly so you always get the freshest, most accurate data.

2B+

Pages crawled monthly

450M+

Verified B2B emails

80M+

Domains indexed

Ranked in benchmark

81%

Email coverage

<5%

Bounce rate

<200ms

API response

99.9%

Uptime SLA

42M+

Tech-indexed sites

150K+

Professionals

Independent 5,000-Lead Benchmark

Same input file, same conditions, every provider. Raw results, no spin.

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Tomba.io

4,015

Anymailfinder

3,875

Findymail

3,757

GetProspect

3,096

Skrapp

2,142

Hunter

1,882

VoilaNorbert

1,800

Snov

1,007

Prospeo

846

More Data, Less Money No One Comes Close

Every plan includes free verification credits, phone data, and credits valid for 12 months.

Basic

$49 /mo

5,000 total credits

2,500 finder + 2,500 Free Verification

Integrate Author Finder API in Your Language

Install Tomba in your language. 10 official SDKs, all open-source on GitHub.

composer require tomba-io/php

Ruby

gem install tomba

go get github.com/tomba-io/go

luarocks install tomba

install.packages("tomba")

Elixir

{:tomba, "~> 1.0"}

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Author Finder API API Features

Author Email

Verified email address for the article author, found by matching byline data against our 450M+ contact database.

Author Profile

Full name, job title, company, department, and seniority level for the identified author.

Social Profiles

LinkedIn URL, Twitter handle, and other social links for the author.

Phone Number

Direct phone number when available, with country code and type.

Company Data

Author's company name, domain, industry, and website.

Built-in Verification

Every author email is SMTP-verified before delivery.

Confidence Score

0-100 confidence score for the email match accuracy.

Source Detection

Extracts author information from meta tags, bylines, schema markup, and page content.

Bulk Available

Process hundreds of article URLs at once via the Bulk Author Finder API.

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Tomba.io is very fast with lots of features. I run leads from Apollo into Tomba and grab prospect info in record time. I'm saving at least 5 hours a week. No joke.

Julian M.

Account Executive, Insight

I've tested over a dozen email finder tools, and Tomba.io stands out as the best. It consistently delivers accurate results. The SDK and docs make integration fast.

Andrei Kholkin

Founder, Superpage.io

Stellar product and amazing support. I have tested many tools and this one is far superior by far. I highly recommend it.

Martin Ebongué

Entrepreneur, Genius Data Flow

Since years, Tomba has provided the most results per search, and it keeps getting better. It recently became one of the most feature-rich tools for our list building.