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
- a8ef2ecf-7cf0-5f6d-b632-f8479b6d71c3
- pub_date
- 2022-12-09 02:00:14
- section_name
- Opinion
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/opinion/death-penalty-texas-ramiro-gonzalez.html
history:
version: 2022-12-09 11:45:03
What You Can Learn on Texas’ Death Row
Friday, December 09, 2022
Jails and prisons are places where the sanctity of life transforms from a philosophical concern into an obvious truth, both indisputable and urgent.
The State of Texas intended to kill Ramiro Gonzales on July 13. Mr. Gonzales, who is 40, has been on Texas’ death row for 16 years. He is guilty of having raped and murdered a woman named Bridget Townsend when he was 18 years old and has been incarcerated his entire adult life. For most of that time, he has lived knowing that he may one day have to lie down, say his last words and participate in his own killing.
word count: 2255
version: 2022-12-09 19:45:03
What You Can Learn on Texas’ Death Row
Friday, December 09, 2022
Jails and prisons are places where the sanctity of life transforms from a philosophical concern into an obvious truth, both indisputable and urgent.
The State of Texas intended to kill Ramiro Gonzales on July 13. Mr. Gonzales, who is 40, has been on Texas’ death row for 16 years. He is guilty of having raped and murdered a woman named Bridget Townsend when he was 18 years old and has been incarcerated his entire adult life. For most of that time, he has lived knowing that he may one day have to lie down, say his last words and participate in his own killing.
word count: 2257
version: 2022-12-10 03:45:03
On Death Row, He Is Grasping at Grace
Friday, December 09, 2022
Jails and prisons are places where the sanctity of life transforms from a philosophical concern into an obvious truth, both indisputable and urgent.
The State of Texas intended to kill Ramiro Gonzales on July 13. Mr. Gonzales, who is 40, has been on Texas’ death row for 16 years. He is guilty of having raped and murdered a woman named Bridget Townsend when he was 18 years old and has been incarcerated his entire adult life. For most of that time, he has lived knowing that he may one day have to lie down, say his last words and participate in his own killing.
word count: 2257
archives:
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check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.