In content explorer you can export lists with the meta author name scraped, would be great for all backlink lists have this Hunter ready data.

Of course, my thinking is that it would be invaluable to filter competitor backlinks by ‘blog’ platform and export domains and author names to reach out to

Likewise, searching by keyword explorer, you can see the top ten results and everyone that links to those which would also be super useful to get author names from when you've created a similar bit of content as these are all active linkers.