/nytimes/articles

POST /api/nytimes/articles

Price: 1 credit

Get one New York Times article by URL, path or nyt:// identifier: headline, SEO headline and sub-headline, summary, kicker, the complete body text, every in-body photograph with caption and credit, authors with their profile links and job titles, section and subsection, topic tags, collections the piece belongs to, publish and last-modified times, word count, desk, tone, language, print-edition placement, comment status, translations into Spanish or Chinese, and the pieces the newsroom linked as related where it recorded any.

How to use it

Fetch one nytimes.com article. article takes the full URL, the bare path ('2026/08/14/world/europe/russia-moldova-putin.html') or the nyt://article/<uuid> uri that nytimes/articles/search returns as uri. text holds the whole article body as plain text — the metered paywall on the web page does not withhold it. published_at and updated_at are unix seconds and differ when the piece was edited. authors[].web_url feeds nytimes/authors, section.name is a value nytimes/articles/search accepts as section, and collections[].web_url feeds nytimes/collections/articles. related is an era field rather than a dead one — the newsroom recorded it on 29 of 100 sampled 2015 articles and on 0 of 100 sampled from 2024, so expect it on older pieces and empty on recent ones. A URL that points at a section front, a topic hub or an author page is rejected rather than returned as an article.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• article string required — New York Times article URL, its path, or a nyt://article/<uuid> identifier (examples: "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/world/europe/russia-moldova-putin.html", "2026/08/14/world/europe/france-court-strikes-down-ban-social-media-children.html", "nyt://article/e5a96c5a-b33a-5178-8d0a-678be656d577"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "NytimesArticle")
• uri string required
• asset_type string required
• document_type string nullable
• web_url string nullable
• alias string nullable
• document_title string required
• seo_title string nullable
• sub_headline string nullable
• kicker string nullable
• summary string nullable
• promotional_headline string nullable
• promotional_summary string nullable
• published_at integer nullable
• updated_at integer nullable
• word_count integer nullable
• tone string nullable
• desk string nullable
• language string nullable
• section object nullable
  • @type string (default: "NytimesSectionRef")
  • uri string nullable
  • name string required
  • display_name string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• subsection object nullable
  • @type string (default: "NytimesSectionRef")
  • uri string nullable
  • name string required
  • display_name string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• authors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NytimesPersonRef")
  • uri string nullable
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • job_title string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• byline string nullable
• image object nullable
  • @type string (default: "NytimesImage")
  • uri string nullable
  • image string required
  • width integer nullable
  • height integer nullable
  • caption string nullable
  • credit string nullable
  • alt_text string nullable
• tags array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NytimesTag")
  • uri string nullable
  • name string required
  • tag_type string nullable
• related array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NytimesArticleReference")
  • uri string required
  • asset_type string nullable
  • document_title string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• source_id string nullable
• short_url string nullable
• major_update_at integer nullable
• source string nullable
• column object nullable
  • @type string (default: "NytimesCollectionRef")
  • uri string nullable
  • name string required
  • collection_type string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• collections array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NytimesCollectionRef")
  • uri string nullable
  • name string required
  • collection_type string nullable
  • web_url string nullable
• print_information object nullable
  • @type string (default: "NytimesArticlePrintInfo")
  • edition string nullable
  • headline string nullable
  • page string nullable
  • section string nullable
  • published_at integer nullable
• comment_status string nullable
• text string nullable
• block_count integer nullable
• images array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NytimesImage")
  • uri string nullable
  • image string required
  • width integer nullable
  • height integer nullable
  • caption string nullable
  • credit string nullable
  • alt_text string nullable
• translations array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "NytimesArticleTranslation")
  • language string required
  • web_url string required

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — No article at this identifier, or it points at a section, topic, video or author page Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.