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
- 9eb37bca-a85d-5057-92e0-acfc72ad56be
- pub_date
- 2022-08-05 02:00:11
- section_name
- Opinion
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/opinion/the-case-for-longtermism.html
history:
version: 2022-08-05 11:45:09
The Case for Longtermism
Friday, August 05, 2022
We are living through an extraordinary and precarious chapter in humanity’s story.
Imagine living the life of every human being who has ever existed — in order of birth.
word count: 2140
version: 2022-08-06 03:45:05
The Case for Longtermism
Friday, August 05, 2022
We are living through an extraordinary and precarious chapter in humanity’s story.
Imagine living the life of every human being who has ever existed — in order of birth.
word count: 2138
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.