NYT has a public api that can be used to track some so-called "stealth edits". Full text is not supported, but the API has endpoints that provide headlines, abstracts, lead paragraphs, and article word counts.
Everything should work. Headlines that do not appear to have changed are resulting in different MD5 hashes and being duplicated in database. I will fix that at some point.
- why are some articles/edits missing?
- The tracker uses the Archive endpoint, which is only updated three times per day (around 3:30PT, 11:30PT, and 19:30PT). Articles can be published and edited before the tracker sees them. If you do not like this, build your own. It takes like 15 minutes.
article info:
- article_id
- 040d155b-6ee7-5008-94d5-e05ff83200d0
- pub_date
- 2022-08-05 02:00:15
- section_name
- New York
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/nyregion/tourism-nyc-instagram.html
history:
version: 2022-08-05 11:45:09
Can a Neighborhood Be Instagrammed to Death?
Friday, August 05, 2022
The return of tourism to New York has brought crowds back to one of the most popular selfie spots on earth. People who live there aren’t feeling #grateful.
Two years ago, Prokopis Christou, a scholar of the social and psychological dynamics of tourism, published a paper that sought to determine whether people who took selfies at popular destinations tended to marginalize the destination itself, focusing instead almost entirely on their own image.
word count: 1002
version: 2022-08-06 03:45:05
Can a Neighborhood Be Instagrammed to Death?
Friday, August 05, 2022
The return of tourism to New York has brought crowds back to one of the most popular selfie spots on earth. People who live there aren’t feeling #grateful.
Two years ago, Prokopis Christou, a scholar of the social and psychological dynamics of tourism, published a paper that sought to determine whether people who took selfies at popular destinations tended to marginalize the destination itself, focusing instead almost entirely on their own image.
word count: 1003
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.