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
- 4a7300eb-98ea-58d5-9daa-ca1976c50f51
- pub_date
- 2022-08-16 06:25:57
- section_name
- World
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/world/asia/marshall-islands-covid-outbreak.html
history:
version: 2022-08-16 11:45:04
Marshall Islands, Once Nearly Covid-Free, Confronts an Outbreak
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
It was one of the last places on the planet to see its first Covid-19 cases. Now the virus is spreading rapidly.
As a remote nation in the Pacific, the Marshall Islands had been almost completely spared from Covid-19, registering just a handful of cases throughout the pandemic, with no community transmission detected.
word count: 740
version: 2022-08-16 19:45:05
Marshall Islands, Once Nearly Covid-Free, Confronts an Outbreak
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
It was one of the last places on the planet to see its first Covid-19 cases. Now the virus is spreading rapidly.
As a remote nation in the Pacific, the Marshall Islands had been almost completely spared from Covid-19, registering just a handful of cases throughout the pandemic, with no community transmission detected.
word count: 737
version: 2022-08-17 11:45:09
Marshall Islands, Once Nearly Covid-Free, Confronts an Outbreak
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
The Pacific nation was one of the last places on the planet to see its first Covid-19 cases. Now the virus is spreading rapidly.
As a remote nation in the Pacific, the Marshall Islands have been almost completely spared from Covid-19, registering just a handful of cases throughout the pandemic, with no community transmission detected.
word count: 737
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.