// free author email finder

Find the Email Address of Any Blog Writer or Journalist

Paste any article URL and get the author's verified email in seconds. The fastest way for PR teams, link builders, and marketers to reach bloggers, journalists, and content creators.

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// api console

Example response from the API reference

email: richard@piedpiper.com
full_name: Richard Hendricks
position: CEO
score: 100
verification.status: valid
info.title: Middle-out compression, explained
info.publisher_name: Pied Piper
info.publish_date: 2025-03-04

Based on verified reviews

// 01 · request

Author Finder is one HTTPS request

Send the parameters with your key and secret. Every SDK, the CLI and the MCP server make this same call.

GET/author-finderParameter

urlrequired: The article URL

// official sdks

The same call from 13 official libraries, each one a thin wrapper over the REST API.

C#
Dart
Deno
Elixir
Go
Lua
Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust

Libraries in the docs

// 02 · response

What comes back

JSON, the same in every language. Fields Tomba doesn't know are null, never guessed.

GET/author-finderField

data.emailstring | null: The address, or null when none is found
data.scoreinteger: Confidence from 0 to 100
data.verification.statusstring | null: valid, accept_all, invalid or unknown, with verification.date
data.full_name, data.position, data.departmentstring | null: Name, job title and team
data.typestring | null: personal or generic (a role address such as sales@)
data.linkedin, data.twitterstring | null: Public profiles
data.sources[]array | null: Up to 20 public pages where the address was found, with dates
data.info.title, data.info.publisher_name, data.info.publish_datestring: The article, who published it and when
data.info.candidates[]array | null: Every author candidate on the page, with a name confidence and score

GET /author-finder

200 OK· 1 search credit

{
  "data": {
    "email": "richard@piedpiper.com",
    "first_name": "Richard",
    "last_name": "Hendricks",
    "full_name": "Richard Hendricks",
    "website_url": "piedpiper.com",
    "company": "Pied Piper",
    "pattern": "{first}",
    "department": "executive",
    "type": "personal",
    "position": "CEO",
    "country": "US",
    "gender": "male",
    "twitter": null,
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hendricks",
    "score": 100,
    "accept_all": false,
    "phone_number": true,
    "verification": {
      "date": "2025-01-15T10:32:00+01:00",
      "status": "valid"
    },
    "sources": [
      {
        "uri": "https://piedpiper.com/blog/engineering",
        "website_url": "piedpiper.com",
        "extracted_on": "2024-06-01T09:14:07+01:00",
        "last_seen_on": "2025-01-10T17:02:44+01:00",
        "still_on_page": true
      }
    ],
    "info": {
      "url": "https://piedpiper.com/blog/middle-out-compression",
      "title": "Middle-out compression, explained",
      "og_image": "https://piedpiper.com/blog/middle-out-compression/cover.png",
      "description": "How middle-out compression reached a Weissman score of 5.2.",
      "article_domain": "piedpiper.com",
      "publisher_name": "Pied Piper",
      "publish_date": "2025-03-04",
      "candidates": [
        {
          "full_name": "Richard Hendricks",
          "first_name": "Richard",
          "last_name": "Hendricks",
          "job_title": "CEO",
          "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hendricks",
          "name_confidence": 0.98,
          "score": 0.95,
          "count": 3
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

// 03 · cost and limits

What a call costs

A call is charged only under the condition below. Rate limits depend on your plan.

// cost

1search credit

Charged when: An address is returned.

Errors, 429 and 451 responses, and the same request again within your usage window cost nothing.

How credits work

// rate limits

Requests per second / minute / day

	Free	Basic	Growth	Pro
Search, finder, similar, technology	1 / 2 / 5	3 / 50 / 500	5 / 80 / 1,000	8 / 150 / 4,000
Email verifier	1 / 2 / 10	2 / 40 / 500	3 / 60 / 1,000	5 / 100 / 4,000

Pro Plus, Scale and credit packs of 50,000 or more: no limit on these endpoints. Enterprise: no per-second or per-minute limit, 100,000 requests a day. Daily limits reset at 00:00 UTC. Rate limits

// 04 · use it anywhere

Author Finder beyond the API

The same endpoint, and the same credits, behind the app and every integration.

// 05 · capabilities

What Author Finder does for you

Paste a URL, Get an Email
Drop any article URL and instantly get the author's verified email address and contact details. No manual research needed.
AI-Powered Author Detection
Our crawler scans the entire page to identify the author, find their profiles, and locate their verified email address.
Every Email Verified Before Delivery
Every author email passes deliverability verification before it reaches you. Send with confidence, not hope.
Results in Seconds, Not Hours
Get author contact information instantly. Built for fast-moving PR teams, link builders, and content marketers.

// use cases

What teams build with Author Finder

// customers

Teams that run Author Finder every day

The Author Finder is perfect for our content marketing outreach. We find journalist and blogger emails in seconds.
Martin EbongueEntrepreneur, Genius Data Flow
Tomba finding the contacts for the perfect prospects at scale is game changing.
Nicholas RizzoSenior Digital Manager, Vizme

// faq

Frequently Asked Questions

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Find the Email Address of Any Blog Writer or Journalist

Author Finder is one HTTPS request

What comes back

What a call costs

Author Finder beyond the API

What Author Finder does for you

Paste a URL, Get an Email

AI-Powered Author Detection

Every Email Verified Before Delivery

Results in Seconds, Not Hours

What teams build with Author Finder

Teams that run Author Finder every day

Frequently Asked Questions

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