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New York Times Developer APIs

Free NYT key unlocks Top Stories, Article Search, Most Popular and a full headline Archive.

The New York Times Developer portal exposes a family of free APIs over its journalism: Top Stories (current section fronts), Article Search (query the archive with filters and facets back to 1851), Most Popular (most viewed/emailed/shared), Times Wire (real-time published feed), Archive (every article for a given month) and more. One free registered key covers all of them. It returns headlines, abstracts, metadata, keywords and URLs (not full body text), which is ideal for headline digests, trend analysis and citation-grade news context in a Claude automation.

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Free with a registered developer account; no paid tier for standard usage.

Rate limits

Default per key: 5 requests/minute and 500 requests/day (some APIs differ slightly). Subject to change.

Auth

API key

Base URL

https://api.nytimes.com/svc

What you'd build with it

Daily Top Stories digest by section
Historical headline trend analysis via Article Search/Archive
Most-popular rollups for a news brief
Citation-backed news grounding for an LLM agent

Key endpoints

GET/topstories/v2/{section}.jsonTop stories for a section (home, world, technology, ...).
GET/search/v2/articlesearch.jsonSearch the article archive with q, filters, facets and pagination.
GET/mostpopular/v2/viewed/{period}.jsonMost viewed articles over 1/7/30 days (also emailed/shared).
GET/archive/v1/{year}/{month}.jsonEvery article published in a given month.

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