New York Times APIs

Official NYT APIs providing access to article search, top stories, book reviews, and movie reviews content.

Status
🔴 Offline · 814 ms

30-day uptime
0%

Free tier
500 calls/day, 10 calls/min, free key, email signup

Auth
API key

Last 30 days

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does New York Times APIs require an API key?

Yes, New York Times APIs requires a free API key. You can sign up via https://developer.nytimes.com/docs.

What is New York Times APIs's free tier?

500 calls/day, 10 calls/min, free key, email signup

Is New York Times APIs currently online?

We check New York Times APIs every hour. The current status is shown at the top of this page. You can also see the 30-day uptime history in the chart above.

Implementation notes

When to use New York Times APIs

The NYT API is the right tool for historical research and analysis — its Archive API covers articles back to 1851, and the Article Search API exposes full metadata for half a million articles. Free tier covers 500 calls/day across both APIs.

Common pitfalls

Each individual API (Article Search, Top Stories, Most Popular, Archive, Books, Movies, etc.) requires separate registration in the developer dashboard. The shared free quota applies but you can't query an API you haven't enabled.
Full article text is not available via the API. You get headlines, abstracts (1-2 sentences), and metadata — for full text you need a NYT subscription and content scraping, which violates the ToS.
Rate limiting is enforced at 10 calls/minute on top of the 500/day quota. Bursty research scripts trigger 429s without warning if not throttled client-side.

Quick start (bash)

curl "https://api.nytimes.com/svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json?q=climate&api-key=YOUR_KEY"

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