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
- 34e2c892-6de9-5775-82c1-8291f4d51680
- pub_date
- 2022-08-04 21:00:07
- section_name
- Style
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/style/stevenson-boyce-sharhea-wade-wedding.html
history:
version: 2022-08-05 03:45:09
After a First Date at Popeyes, Marriage Was on the Menu
Thursday, August 04, 2022
Sharhea Wade was ready to forget about Stevenson Boyce, whom she met on Hinge, because he twice canceled their first date. But soon after a third (successful) attempt, she was ready to marry him.
The parking lot of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in Roslindale, Mass., is not a particularly romantic spot for a first date. Nevertheless, when Stevenson Ricardo Boyce asked Sharhea Octavia Wade if she would meet him there one afternoon in May 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, she didn’t say no.
word count: 723
version: 2022-08-06 03:45:05
After a First Date at Popeyes, Marriage Was on the Menu
Thursday, August 04, 2022
Sharhea Wade was ready to forget about Stevenson Boyce, whom she met on Hinge, because he twice canceled their first date. But soon after a third (successful) attempt, she was ready to marry him.
The parking lot of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston is not a particularly romantic spot for a first date. Nevertheless, when Stevenson Ricardo Boyce asked Sharhea Octavia Wade if she would meet him there one afternoon in May 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, she didn’t say no.
word count: 726
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.