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
- 57fa6258-6f38-5eb5-896c-24809c866f87
- pub_date
- 2022-11-19 11:35:09
- section_name
- Sports
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/article/world-cup-schedule-watch-stream.html
history:
2022-11-19 19:45:05: word count changed to 863 words.
2022-11-19 19:45:05: abstract changed
2022-11-19 19:45:05: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-20 11:45:04: word count changed to 857 words.
2022-11-20 11:45:04: abstract changed
2022-11-20 11:45:04: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-20 19:45:04: word count changed to 858 words.
2022-11-20 19:45:04: abstract changed
2022-11-20 19:45:04: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-21 11:45:04: word count changed to words.
2022-11-21 11:45:04: abstract changed
2022-11-21 11:45:04: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-21 19:45:03: word count changed to 840 words.
2022-11-21 19:45:03: abstract changed
2022-11-21 19:45:03: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-22 11:45:03: word count changed to 822 words.
2022-11-22 11:45:03: abstract changed
2022-11-22 11:45:03: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-22 19:45:04: word count changed to 816 words.
2022-11-22 19:45:04: abstract changed
2022-11-22 19:45:04: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-23 11:45:06: word count changed to 798 words.
2022-11-23 11:45:06: abstract changed
2022-11-23 11:45:06: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-23 19:45:05: word count changed to 792 words.
2022-11-23 19:45:05: abstract changed
2022-11-23 19:45:05: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-24 11:45:05: word count changed to 777 words.
2022-11-24 11:45:05: abstract changed
2022-11-24 11:45:05: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-25 11:45:04: word count changed to 743 words.
2022-11-25 11:45:04: abstract changed
2022-11-25 11:45:04: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-25 19:45:04: word count changed to 734 words.
2022-11-25 19:45:04: abstract changed
2022-11-25 19:45:04: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-26 19:45:04: word count changed to 719 words.
2022-11-26 19:45:04: abstract changed
2022-11-26 19:45:04: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-27 11:45:05: word count changed to 699 words.
2022-11-27 11:45:05: abstract changed
2022-11-27 11:45:05: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-27 19:45:05: word count changed to 694 words.
2022-11-27 19:45:05: abstract changed
2022-11-27 19:45:05: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-28 11:45:04: word count changed to 679 words.
2022-11-28 11:45:04: abstract changed
2022-11-28 11:45:04: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-28 19:45:04: word count changed to 674 words.
2022-11-28 19:45:04: abstract changed
2022-11-28 19:45:04: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-29 19:45:06: word count changed to 709 words.
2022-11-29 19:45:06: abstract changed
2022-11-29 19:45:06: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-30 03:45:04: word count changed to 703 words.
2022-11-30 03:45:04: abstract changed
2022-11-30 03:45:04: lead paragraph changed.
2022-11-30 19:45:05: word count changed to 718 words.
2022-11-30 19:45:05: abstract changed
2022-11-30 19:45:05: lead paragraph changed.
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