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
- 0be96bcc-79bd-5ec3-9465-98c939c87466
- pub_date
- 2024-03-26 08:01:20
- section_name
- World
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/world/europe/russia-terror-attack-ukraine.html
history:
version: 2024-03-26 11:45:07
Russia Digs In on Claim Ukraine and West Were Behind Terrorist Attack
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
The head of Russia’s top security agency said, without providing evidence, that the assault was “facilitated by Western special services.” Ukraine has denied involvement, calling the assertions “lies.”
Russia on Tuesday deepened its accusations against Ukraine and its Western allies, claiming again, without evidence, that they were most likely involved in the terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow that killed at least 139 people.
word count: 894
version: 2024-03-26 19:45:07
Rocked by Deadly Terror Attack, Kremlin Amps Up Disinformation Machine
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Conceding that the Islamic State alone carried out the assault on a Moscow concert hall would mean admitting to a security failure, and risk diluting Vladimir Putin’s narrative war with the West.
The bloody terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow had barely subsided before Russia launched a disinformation campaign suggesting that Ukraine and the West were somehow behind it, pushing a version of events molded to fit the Kremlin war narrative and downplay a significant security failure.
word count: 1372
archives:
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