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NYTimes Exposes 2.8 Million Articles in New API
ReadWriteWeb —
... What do you do when your industry is shifting under your feet? Taking the lead with radical steps is one strategy. The New York Times did just that this afternoon when it announced that it has released a new Application Programming Interface (API) offering every article the paper has written since 1981, 2.8 million articles. The API includes 28 searchable fields and updated content every hour. ...
Search 2.8M articles with New York Times’ API
VentureBeat —
... Anyway, it’s still early to judge The Times’ initiative. Let’s see what the paper does with its coolest API yet — for now, I’m just glad this is available. The Times’ post announcing the API begins, “Finally!” which captures my feelings exactly. ...
NY Times Turning News Into A Platform
Techdirt —
... . Their latest move? To turn the NY Times news articles into a true platform. They've released an API for news, allowing others to actually build useful tools on top of the NY Times' news articles. Contrast that to, say, GateHouse Media, which recently ...
The NYT API: Newspaper as Platform [GigaOM]
Pipes Output —
... and how journalism is at risk because newspapers are dying. But there’s been very little discussion about something that has the potential to fundamentally change the way that newspapers function (or at least one newspaper in particular), and that is the release of the New York Times’ open API for news stories. The Times has talked about this project since last year sometime, and it has finally happened; as developer Derek Gottfrid describes on the Open blog, programmers and developers can now easily access 2.8 million news articles ...
The NYT API: Newspaper as platform
mathewingram.com/work —
... or all of the above — and how journalism is at risk because newspapers are dying. But there’s been very little discussion about something that has the potential to fundamentally change the way that newspapers function (or at least one newspaper in particular), and that is the release of the New York Times’ open API for news stories. The Times has talked about this project since last year sometime, and it has finally happened; as developer Derek Gottfrid describes on the Open blog, programmers and developers can now easily access 2.8 million news articles going ...
Newspaper as a Platform: Guardian Launches API
ReadWriteWeb —
... its Article Search API, which also gives developers access to a complete set of the paper's content (Disclosure: RWW is a syndication partner of the NYT). The New York Times, however, provides access to a more varied set of data and includes specialized APIs for accessing its movie reviews, breaking news, or recipes. Other news organizations like the ...
Not Just for Developers Anymore: New York Times Launches Custom Times Feeds
ReadWriteWeb —
The New York Times just released an interesting new tool that allows users to filter articles from the newspaper's website by tags and keywords and turn them into custom feeds. While developers could already build similar tools on top of the paper's Article Search API and TimesTags API, the new Custom Times Feeds give everybody the ability to create persistent searches based on their personal preferences.
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One neat feature of the application is that users can't just search by keyword but ...
