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
- 08e9c44c-5c04-5e1c-a4be-aa18f8294155
- pub_date
- 2022-08-16 10:45:30
- section_name
- Climate
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/climate/colorado-river-lake-mead-water-drought.html
history:
version: 2022-08-16 19:45:05
A New Round of Colorado River Cuts Is Announced
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
The cuts affect only Arizona, Nevada and Mexico at this time, as a plan for more drastic cuts from seven states remains elusive.
In response to dwindling supplies of water from the drought-ravaged Colorado River, the federal government on Tuesday announced a new round of cuts in the amount two states can take from the river. But for now the government stopped short of mandating large reductions that officials have said will be needed next year to protect the river’s infrastructure.
word count: 600
version: 2022-08-17 03:45:04
A New Round of Colorado River Cuts Is Announced
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
For now, the water-use reductions affect only Arizona and Nevada, together with Mexico. But talks to avoid wider cuts have so far achieved “exactly nothing.”
With water levels in the Colorado River near their lowest point ever, Arizona and Nevada on Tuesday faced new restrictions on the amount of water they can pump out of the river, the most important in the Southwest.
word count: 895
archives:
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