---
title: authors
framework: corespotlight
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/contentdomain/documents-swift.struct/authors
---

# authors

Attributes queried for document authors. Default: authorNames

## Declaration

```swift
var authors: [SearchableItemAttribute]?
```

## See Also

### Getting the domain attributes

- [created](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/contentdomain/documents-swift.struct/created.md)
- [keywords](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/contentdomain/documents-swift.struct/keywords.md)
- [modified](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/contentdomain/documents-swift.struct/modified.md)