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
- 6206b68f-1e14-573b-b429-9ae392005fc7
- pub_date
- 2024-03-27 02:01:14
- section_name
- Books
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/article/stephen-king-books.html
history:
version: 2024-03-27 11:45:07
The Essential Stephen King
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here’s where to start.
Before the vampires and the haunted hotels, before the killer clowns, killer cars and killer dogs, before Shawshank and that green mile, there was Carrie. A teenage girl, bullied to her very limit, who discovers that she can move things with her mind, and uses that power to massacre her classmates.
word count: 1868
version: 2024-03-27 19:45:11
The Essential Stephen King
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here’s where to start.
Before the vampires and the haunted hotels, before the killer clowns, killer cars and killer dogs, before Shawshank and that green mile, there was Carrie. A teenage girl, bullied to her very limit, who discovers that she can move things with her mind, and uses that power to massacre her classmates.
word count: 1861
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.