The New York Times (APIs.json)

The official developer area for accessing The New York Times archive, article search, books, most popular, reviews, semantic, times tags, times wire, and top stories APis.

Archive API

The Archive API returns an array of NYT articles for a given month, going back to 1851. Its response fields are the same as the Article Search API. The Archive API is very useful if you want to build your own database of NYT article metadata.

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  • Archive
  • Months
  • Years

Article Search API

Use the Article Search API to look up articles by keyword. You can refine your search using filters and facets.

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  • Articles
  • Search

Books API

The Books API provides information about book reviews and The New York Times Best Sellers lists.

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Most Popular

Provides services for getting the most popular articles on NYTimes.com based on emails, shares, or views.

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Movie Reviews API

As an alternative, use the Article Search API to get New York Times movie reviews using the following filter query.

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  • Bio
  • Critics
  • Images
  • Movie
  • Names
  • Reviewers
  • Reviews
  • Search
  • Search
  • Types

Semantic API

The Semantic API complements the Articles API. With the Semantic API, you get access to the long list of people, places, organizations and other locations, entities and descriptors that make up the controlled vocabulary used as metadata by The New York Times (sometimes referred to as Times Tags and used for Times Topics pages.

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  • Concepts
  • Names
  • Search
  • Specific
  • Types

TimesTags API

With the TimesTags API, you can mine the riches of the New York Times tag set. The TimesTags service matches your query to the controlled vocabularies that fuel NYTimes.com metadata. You supply a string of characters, and the service returns a ranked list of suggested terms.

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  • Tags

Times Newswire API

With the Times Newswire API, you can get links and metadata for Times' articles as soon as they are published on NYTimes.com. The Times Newswire API provides an up-to-the-minute stream of published articles. You can filter results by source (all, nyt, inyt) and section (arts, business, ...).

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  • Content
  • Sections
  • Sources

Top Stories

The Top Stories API returns an array of articles currently on the specified section (arts, business, ...).

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