Authors

API + MCP

GET/v3/social-media/authors

Requests to this endpoint are free and do not consume any API units.

Query parameters

outputstring

The output format.

Allowed values:jsoncsvxmlphp

Responses

authorsarray<object>

author_idstring

Unique identifier of the author.

author_namestring

Name of the author.

Parameters

output

API key

Request

curl "https://api.ahrefs.com/v3/social-media/authors" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AHREFS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

import requests

url = "https://api.ahrefs.com/v3/social-media/authors"
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer $AHREFS_API_KEY",
    "Accept": "application/json"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch("https://api.ahrefs.com/v3/social-media/authors", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer $AHREFS_API_KEY",
    "Accept": "application/json"
  }
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.ahrefs.com/v3/social-media/authors", nil)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer $AHREFS_API_KEY")
req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")

resp, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer resp.Body.Close()

data, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(data))

Response

200 OK

{
  "authors": [
    {
      "author_id": "string",
      "author_name": "string"
    }
  ]
}