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
- 5199bb98-3ebb-5ec7-b3f0-db3cadd49862
- pub_date
- 2022-12-08 04:44:20
- section_name
- World
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/world/middleeast/iran-protests-execution.html
history:
version: 2022-12-08 19:45:04
Iran Executes Man Over Nationwide Protests
Thursday, December 08, 2022
Mohsen Shekari, 23, had been sentenced to death on accusations of blocking a street in Tehran and attacking a member of the Basij militia during a protest.
The Iranian government announced that it had hanged a 23-year-old prisoner on Thursday, the first known execution of a person arrested in the protests that have engulfed the country for the past three months.
word count: 1140
version: 2022-12-09 11:45:03
Iran Executes Man Over Nationwide Protests
Thursday, December 08, 2022
Mohsen Shekari, 23, had been sentenced to death on accusations of blocking a street in Tehran and attacking a member of the Basij militia during a protest.
The Iranian government announced that it had hanged a 23-year-old prisoner on Thursday, the first known execution of a person arrested in the protests that have engulfed the country for the past three months.
word count: 1140
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.