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
- 90fa4885-5e03-59ae-9a6e-9f445275a3b5
- pub_date
- 2022-12-08 10:00:07
- section_name
- Sports
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/sports/world-cup/messi-ronaldo-soccer.html
history:
version: 2022-12-08 19:45:04
The Last Stand of Soccer’s Greatest Generation
Thursday, December 08, 2022
The World Cup is bidding farewell to the starriest cast the game has ever assembled. The setting is a perfect fit for the game’s age of excess.
DOHA, Qatar — One by one, they have exited the World Cup stage that has been theirs for so long. Some, like Luis Suárez, restless and helpless, on the substitutes’ bench, could not hold back their tears. Others, like Romelu Lukaku and Edinson Cavani, lashed out at whatever inanimate object crossed their path, unable to contain their rage.
word count: 1335
version: 2022-12-09 11:45:03
The Last Stand of Soccer’s Greatest Generation
Thursday, December 08, 2022
The World Cup is bidding farewell to the starriest cast the game has ever assembled. The setting is a perfect fit for the game’s age of excess.
DOHA, Qatar — One by one, they have exited the World Cup stage that has been theirs for so long. Some, like Luis Suárez, restless and helpless, on the substitutes’ bench, could not hold back their tears. Others, like Romelu Lukaku and Edinson Cavani, lashed out at whatever inanimate object crossed their path, unable to contain their rage.
word count: 1341
version: 2022-12-09 19:45:03
The Last Stand of Soccer’s Greatest Generation
Thursday, December 08, 2022
The World Cup is bidding farewell to the starriest cast the game has ever assembled. The setting is a perfect fit for the game’s age of excess.
Follow live coverage of Argentina vs. Netherlands and to follow teams that have advanced to the knockout stage, see our World Cup bracket page.
word count: 1364
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.