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
- dc74c13c-def4-5937-8970-7ba3e5cab363
- pub_date
- 2022-12-07 02:00:39
- section_name
- Arts
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/arts/music/best-songs-2022.html
history:
version: 2022-12-07 11:45:03
Best Songs of 2022
Wednesday, December 07, 2022
Seventy-two tracks that identify, grapple with or simply dance away from the anxieties of yet another uncertain year.
Full disclosure: There can’t be a definitive list of best songs — only a sampling of what any one listener, no matter how determined, can find the time to hear in the course of a year. For discovery’s sake, my list rules out the (excellent) songs on my favorite albums of the year, and it’s designed more like a playlist than a countdown or a ranking. Feel free to switch to shuffle.
word count: 3105
version: 2022-12-07 19:45:03
Best Songs of 2022
Wednesday, December 07, 2022
Seventy tracks that identify, grapple with or simply dance away from the anxieties of yet another uncertain year.
Full disclosure: There can’t be a definitive list of best songs — only a sampling of what any one listener, no matter how determined, can find the time to hear in the course of a year. For discovery’s sake, my list rules out the (excellent) songs on my favorite albums of the year, and it’s designed more like a playlist than a countdown or a ranking. Feel free to switch to shuffle.
word count: 3112
archives:
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