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
- be457504-99e4-595d-bda8-04f073bde7f7
- pub_date
- 2022-08-16 16:01:09
- section_name
- World
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/world/europe/crimea-russia-ukraine-explosions.html
history:
version: 2022-08-17 03:45:04
Ukraine Strikes Again in Crimea, Challenging Russian Hold on Peninsula
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Explosions rocked a munitions depot in Crimea days after blasts hit a Russian airfield there. President Vladimir V. Putin has made the seizure of Crimea a centerpiece of his 22-year rule.
ODESA, Ukraine — Russian warships patrol Crimea’s coasts and Russian warplanes fly from its territory, transformed by eight years of occupation into a fortress. President Vladimir V. Putin has called Crimea a “sacred place,” Russia’s “holy land,” and one of his top advisers has warned that if the peninsula were attacked, Ukraine would face “Judgment Day.”
word count: 1461
version: 2022-08-17 11:45:09
Ukraine Strikes Again in Crimea, Posing a New Challenge for Putin
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
President Vladimir V. Putin has made Russia’s seizure of the peninsula a centerpiece of his 22-year rule, but a series of clandestine attacks by Ukrainian forces recently have tested security there.
ODESA, Ukraine — Russian warships patrol Crimea’s coasts and Russian warplanes fly from its territory, transformed by eight years of occupation into a fortress. President Vladimir V. Putin has called Crimea a “sacred place,” Russia’s “holy land,” and one of his top advisers has warned that if the peninsula were attacked, Ukraine would face “Judgment Day.”
word count: 1461
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.