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
- 635226a2-678e-54ef-96e7-d0938b42dd74
- pub_date
- 2022-08-03 13:41:50
- section_name
- U.S.
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/politics/alex-jones-trial-sandy-hook.html
history:
version: 2022-08-03 19:45:09
Alex Jones, Under Questioning, Is Confronted With Evidence of Deception
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
The Infowars conspiracy theorist was presented with text messages from his own cellphone showing that he had withheld evidence in defamation lawsuits brought by Sandy Hook families.
AUSTIN, Texas — In a brutal cross-examination on Wednesday in the trial of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a lawyer for Sandy Hook parents produced text messages from Mr. Jones’s cellphone showing that he had withheld key evidence in defamation lawsuits brought by the families for lies he had spread about the 2012 school shooting.
word count: 587
version: 2022-08-04 03:45:08
Alex Jones, Under Questioning, Is Confronted With Evidence of Deception
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
The Infowars conspiracy theorist was presented with text messages from his own cellphone that his lawyers appeared to have accidentally sent to lawyers for Sandy Hook parents.
AUSTIN, Texas — In a brutal cross-examination on Wednesday in the trial of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a lawyer for Sandy Hook parents produced text messages from Mr. Jones’s cellphone showing that he had withheld key evidence in defamation lawsuits brought by the families for lies he had spread about the 2012 school shooting.
word count: 1010
version: 2022-08-04 19:45:03
Alex Jones, Under Questioning, Is Confronted With Evidence of Deception
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
The Infowars conspiracy theorist was presented with text messages from his own cellphone that his lawyers appeared to have accidentally sent to lawyers for Sandy Hook parents.
Follow our live coverage of the decision in the Alex Jones defamation trial.
word count: 1022
version: 2022-08-05 11:45:09
Alex Jones, Under Questioning, Is Confronted With Evidence of Deception
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
The Infowars conspiracy theorist was presented with text messages from his own cellphone that his lawyers appeared to have accidentally sent to lawyers for Sandy Hook parents.
Follow our live coverage of the Alex Jones defamation trial.
word count: 1019
version: 2022-08-06 03:45:05
Alex Jones, Under Questioning, Is Confronted With Evidence of Deception
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
The Infowars conspiracy theorist was presented with text messages from his own cellphone that his lawyers appeared to have accidentally sent to lawyers for Sandy Hook parents.
Follow our live coverage of the trial of Alex Jones.
word count: 1019
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.