Paste an article or blog post link. See who wrote it, with their photo, role, bio, author page, social profiles, recent articles and an email only when it matches their name. Free, no account needed.
One search gives you the writer behind the article and enough context to decide whether, and how, to contact them. Everything comes from the article and the author's own page, and nothing is shown as the author's unless it is really theirs.
The photo is resized and served by us, so the author's site never sees your visit. Links open only when they are ordinary web addresses.
Most articles name their writer in more than one place, and not always where you can see it. A blog post can show no byline at all while still naming its author in the data written for search engines. Author Finder reads all of it.
When a page credits a newsroom or company rather than a person, or names nobody at all, we say so. A confident wrong name is worse than no name when you are about to email someone.
Use the link to one article or blog post. We first check the link against public lists of phishing and scam sites, then read that one page.
We read everywhere a page can name its author: the byline, the author box, author tags and the structured data search engines use. If the byline only appears once the page has loaded in a browser, we load it that way.
When the article links to an author page, we read that one extra page for their photo, job title, bio, social profiles, contact email and other recent articles. We never crawl the rest of the site.
Profiles count when the author links them from their own author box or page, or when the username matches their name. Emails count only when they match the author's name, and our own email check tells you whether the mailbox can receive mail.
A website rarely has a single author, but each article usually does, so start from one article. These are the places to check, in the order that usually finds the writer fastest.
Most articles name the writer just under the headline or above the first paragraph, often as "By Jane Doe". Scroll to the end too: many blogs put a short author box there with a photo, a one-line bio and links to the writer's profiles.
Smaller sites and company blogs often skip bylines but list their writers on an About, Team, Staff or Contributors page. If the article is a company announcement, the author is often the company itself, and the press or communications contact is the right person to reach.
Right-click the page, choose View Page Source and search for "author". The name often sits in a meta tag or in JSON-LD structured data, written for search engines, even when the page shows no byline. Look for "@type": "Person" next to the article's headline.
Clicking a byline usually leads to an author archive such as /author/jane-doe. That page lists everything the person has written for the site and often their bio, photo and social links, which confirms you have the right writer.
Search for the article's exact title in quotes to find the original version or republished copies that do carry a byline. Add site:example.com to search one site, or search "Jane Doe" plus the publication name to confirm someone writes there.
If a byline was removed or the page has changed, an archived snapshot often still shows the original author. Paste the URL into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and open a snapshot from around the publication date.
On a one-person blog the site owner is usually the writer. A WHOIS lookup sometimes shows the owner's name, although most registrations are now private. The site's About page or footer is often quicker.
A website's contact form goes to whoever reads the shared inbox. The writer is the person who decides what goes into their own article, and the person most likely to reply.
Writers update their own articles. Pitching the person who wrote the piece you want a link from works far better than a generic contact form or info@ inbox.
Find the reporter who already covers your topic, read their recent articles, and pitch a story that fits what they write about.
Editors and regular contributors decide what a blog publishes. Knowing who writes there tells you who to pitch and what topics already work.
Citation styles such as APA and MLA need the author, the publication and the date. The result gives you all three for the page you cite.
Short, specific and easy to answer. Replace every part in braces, and mention something from their article that shows you read it.
Found the right person? Save them to the outreach CRM and send the pitch from your own inbox.
Subject: Your piece on {topic}
Hi {first name},
I read your article "{article title}" on {publication}. The point about {specific detail} was useful.
I work on {your site}, and we recently published {your resource}, which adds {what it adds}. It could be a helpful extra link for readers of that section.
Happy to send a short summary if that helps. If it's not a fit, no reply needed.
Thanks,
{your name}How we find the writer, where profiles and emails come from, and what we never guess.
You paste the link to one article. We check the link is safe, read that page for the writer's name, then read the writer's own author page if the article links to one. We never crawl the rest of the site.
Many pages still name the writer in data written for search engines, and Author Finder reads that too. If nothing on the page names a person, we tell you so instead of guessing. The manual guide on this page lists the next places to look.
The name is as accurate as the page itself. Pages that credit a company rather than a person get an organization result. Sites that block automated visits can't be read, and the result says so instead of showing a guess.
Found first. We show an email as the author's only when it matches their name: their first or last name, initial plus last name, first name plus last initial, or their initials. Generic inboxes like info@ never count as the author's. If nothing is published, we may test a few common patterns such as first.last@ and show one only when our check confirms the mailbox and the domain doesn't accept every address. Those are labelled as a pattern match.
We run every email through our own email check. When the mailbox is confirmed you'll see Deliverable. Many mail servers don't allow anyone to confirm a mailbox, so some addresses show as not confirmed. Check those before sending.
Most publishers don't print writers' emails, and we won't show an unconfirmed guess. The writer's social profiles in the result are usually the best way to reach them, or their author page may have a contact form.
From links the author gives themselves, in their author box or on their author page, and from other links on those pages whose username matches their name. The site's own social accounts are left out.
Start from one article on the site rather than the home page, because each article has its own writer. Paste it into Author Finder, or use the manual steps on this page: byline, author box, About or Team page, page source, author archive, search operators and the Wayback Machine.
Not on this free page. It checks one article at a time. Inside TaskGlaze, the outreach CRM keeps every prospect with their contact details, and you can pitch them in sequences from your own inbox.
Yes. You get three searches a day without an account, or fifteen a day when you are signed in to your TaskGlaze account. Each free tool has its own daily count.
We store the public result, such as the author's name, profile and the article details, for up to 180 days so the same article loads quickly next time. We don't store who searched. If you choose to save an author to your CRM, we hold that author for up to 7 days so we can add them after you sign up.
We check every link against public lists of phishing and scam sites and refuse ones that look unsafe, such as raw IP addresses or lookalike domains. A refused link doesn't use one of your daily searches.
More free checks from TaskGlaze, with the same daily allowance for each tool.
TaskGlaze keeps your link prospects, their contacts and your outreach sequences in one CRM.