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
- 355241f7-98f3-56c0-bcec-c23b45641d02
- pub_date
- 2022-12-08 05:58:48
- section_name
- World
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/world/europe/viktor-bout-brittney-griner.html
history:
version: 2022-12-08 19:45:04
Who Is Viktor Bout, the Arms Dealer in the Swap for Brittney Griner?
Thursday, December 08, 2022
Viktor Bout has been accused of supplying arms to Al Qaeda, the Taliban and rebels in Rwanda. His exploits helped inspire a 2005 film, “Lord of War,” that starred Nicolas Cage.
Shortly after his conviction in 2011 on charges including conspiring to kill American citizens, the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout relayed a defiant message through his lawyer as he faced the prospect of decades in prison.
word count: 1039
version: 2022-12-09 11:45:03
Who Is Viktor Bout, the Arms Dealer in the Swap for Brittney Griner?
Thursday, December 08, 2022
Viktor Bout has been accused of supplying arms to Al Qaeda, the Taliban and rebels in Rwanda. His exploits helped inspire a 2005 film, “Lord of War,” that starred Nicolas Cage.
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word count: 1056
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.