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
- be6d6900-f23a-5cb7-917a-e35259e20584
- pub_date
- 2022-12-08 02:59:48
- section_name
- World
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/world/asia/china-covid-rollback.html
history:
version: 2022-12-08 19:45:04
‘Zero Covid,’ Once Ubiquitous, Vanishes in China’s Messy Pivot
Thursday, December 08, 2022
As China casts aside many Covid rules, it is also playing down the threat of the virus. The move could help ease the burden on hospitals but comes with its own risks.
A day after China’s ruling Communist Party announced a broad rollback of the “zero Covid” restrictions that had smothered the economy and transformed life in the country, the propaganda apparatus on Thursday began the daunting task of promoting an audacious revision of history.
word count: 1577
version: 2022-12-09 11:45:03
‘Zero Covid,’ Once Ubiquitous, Vanishes in China’s Messy Pivot
Thursday, December 08, 2022
As China casts aside many Covid rules, it is also playing down the threat of the virus. The move could help ease the burden on hospitals but comes with its own risks.
A day after China’s ruling Communist Party announced a broad rollback of the “zero Covid” restrictions that had smothered the economy and transformed life in the country, the propaganda apparatus on Thursday began the daunting task of promoting an audacious revision of history.
word count: 1577
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.