Get Top Writers by Topic Slug

Publish expert directories keyed to Medium topic slugs in legacy integrations

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GET https://api.zenndra.com/top_writers/{topic_slug}

Send your API key as Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY or x-api-key.

What you get back

Ranked writers for a Medium topic slug — leaderboards for expert directories and outreach lists.

What people build with it

Rank authors for partnership outreach in niche topic apps
Feature credible voices on landing pages built around editorial topic taxonomies

Path parameters

Swap the placeholders in the URL for real values.

{topic_slug} Topic slug (e.g. javascript)

Copy & run

const topicSlug = 'javascript';\nconst res = await fetch(`https://api.zenndra.com/top_writers/${topicSlug}`, {\n  headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' },\n});\nconst data = await res.json();

import requests\n\nurl = "https://api.zenndra.com/top_writers/javascript"\nheaders = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}\nr = requests.get(url, headers=headers)\nprint(r.json())

<?php\n$url = 'https://api.zenndra.com/top_writers/javascript';\n$ch = curl_init($url);\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY']);\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);\necho curl_exec($ch);

curl "https://api.zenndra.com/top_writers/javascript" -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "topic_slug": "javascript",
  "writers": [
    {"user_id": "abc123", "username": "janedoe", "name": "Jane Doe", "followers_count": 12000}
  ],
  "count": 1
}