# Article Author and Byline Detector

> Article Author and Byline Detector is a paid API for AI agents from intel.rallylive.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Extracts author name, byline, publisher, and publication/modification dates from a web page using meta tags, schema.org, rel=author links, and byline patterns.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/site/author
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/article-author-and-byline-detector-7ebd2a81
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FYxY6HJ8SkAub8HY-qsOF

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability article-author-and-byline-detector-7ebd2a81
```

Example prompt: Who wrote this article and when was it published? Fetch the author, byline, publisher name, and publication date from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/15/openai-chatgpt-update.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured author attribution, byline, or publication date data from a specific article URL — especially for research, citation generation, or content provenance verification. It is preferable to general-purpose page scrapers when the primary goal is author/publisher metadata rather than full page content.

## Known failure modes

- Page has no author metadata — returns null or empty author fields
- URL is behind a paywall or requires login — may return incomplete data
- Dynamically rendered pages (JavaScript-heavy) may not expose author markup to a server-side fetch
- Ambiguous byline patterns may result in incorrect author attribution
- Network timeout or unreachable URL returns an error response

## How this service works

Article author and byline detection: author from meta tags, schema.org Article/Person, rel=author links and byline patterns, plus published/modified dates and the publisher name. Attribution for research and citation. $0.01 per page.

## Output

Returns the detected author name and byline, the publisher/outlet name, the original publication date, and the last modified date — sourced from meta tags, schema.org Article/Person markup, rel=author links, and heuristic byline patterns found on the page.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/article-author-and-byline-detector-7ebd2a81/health.json
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