Any Site API / /guardian/authors/search

Anysite tool anysite-api-guardian-authors-search on looot: input fields, $0.0719 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Browse the full Guardian contributor catalogue alphabetically. Returns every writer filed under the requested index bucket, a letter a-z, or 1-9 for names starting with a digit, with their profile id, display name, alias and profile url. Price: 20 credits

Tool id: anysite-api-guardian-authors-search
Provider: Anysite
Job: Search api guardian authors (api.guardian.authors.search)
Price: $0.0719 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`count`	integer	yes	Max number of contributors to return
`letter`	string	yes
`timeout`	integer	no	Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds)
`x-request-id`	string	no

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect anysite-api-guardian-authors-search prints its fields.

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"anysite-api-guardian-authors-search","input":{"letter":"<letter>","count":1},"wait":30}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "anysite-api-guardian-authors-search",
    input: {
      letter: "<letter>",
      count: 1,
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "anysite-api-guardian-authors-search",
        "input": {
            "letter": "<letter>",
            "count": 1,
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:api.guardian.authors.search as endpointId; see the job page.