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
- bb680bc8-f984-574b-956b-05e89057f78b
- pub_date
- 2024-03-26 15:11:14
- section_name
- Business Day
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/business/media/ronna-mcdaniel-nbc-msnbc.html
history:
version: 2024-03-26 19:45:07
NBC News Cuts Ties With Ronna McDaniel After Network Firestorm
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
A string of top stars denounced the hiring of Ms. McDaniel, the former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, on their own airwaves.
The Ronna McDaniel era at NBC News has come to an abrupt and chaotic end.
word count: 822
version: 2024-03-27 03:45:08
NBC News Cuts Ties With Ronna McDaniel After Network Firestorm
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
A string of top stars had denounced the hiring of Ms. McDaniel, the former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, on their own airwaves.
The Ronna McDaniel era at NBC News has come to an abrupt and chaotic end.
word count: 877
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.