Article Search API
Article Search API
New York Times Article Search API full-text-searches NYT articles from 1851 to present — filter by keyword, date, author, section.
170-year news archive — unmatched depth
Articles before 1980 return abstract only (no full text)
GET /svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json?q=climate+change&begin_date=20200101&api-key=...
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About this API
Article Search is NYT's "historical archive API" — search every NYT article from 1851 to present. This is one of the biggest goldmines in news APIs: research questions like "how did NYT report the week Lincoln was shot" can't be answered by any other API. Users include news researchers, journalists doing fact-checking, historians, and developers needing historical news context for LLMs. Each article returns title, abstract, author, publish time, section, keyword tags, and (post-1980) abstract. Rate limit is actually tight (10/min); large-scale research must crawl slowly. Free to use, with required attribution.
What you can build
- 1News research and fact-checking
- 2Article retrieval for historical events
- 3Provide historical news context for LLMs
- 4News dataset construction
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- 170-year news archive — unmatched depth
- Full-text indexed (not just titles)
- Free tier 4000/day
Limitations
- Articles before 1980 return abstract only (no full text)
- Rate limit is actually 10/min — large research must wait
Example request
curl https://nytimes.com/<endpoint>Getting started
GET /svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json?q=climate+change&begin_date=20200101&api-key=...
FAQ
Can I get full article text?+
No — NYT's paywall policy means API returns abstracts only. Full text requires NYT subscription.
What's the actual rate limit?+
Official docs say 4000/day, but there's an additional 10/min short-window limit. Research projects must crawl slowly.
Technical details
- Auth type
- unknown
- Pricing
- unknown
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- python, javascript, go
- Response time
- 582 ms
- Last health check
- 5/12/2026, 7:37:58 AM
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