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How many newspapers have an API?

26 points by iamelgringo 18y ago

seldo 18y ago
At least one other: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/inside/authors/matt_mcalister/index.html http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/inside/authors/matt_mcalister/in... (although theirs seems to have no published APIs or documentation that I can find, yet)
danw 18y ago
Does rss count as an api?
- SingAlong 18y ago
  IMO yes if they can offer different parameters for search keywords etc. (like Twitter's search RSS/Atom feed allows search parameters) Newspapers, have read about a few sometime ago. Associated Press offers one (feeds). But the best choice would be to go for Daylife's API. http://developer.daylife.com http://developer.daylife.com They index news sources including blogs and newspapers and other sites. You can refine the sources by the sourceIDs and hence select only newspapers for your API results. Good luck!
- nir 18y ago
  That's exactly what I was thinking... Since it's all GET, a properly implemented RSS/Atom feed could go a long way towards a newspaper API, and might even be a better solution in some ways - no extra code to develop/maintain, no API key requirement, little need for documentation etc.
- Harkins 18y ago
  If you work at a newspaper, any XML output of any kind is called an API and spoken of as equivalent to, say, the Amazon Associates API.
petercooper 18y ago
Title doesn't match the content.
ajkirwin 18y ago
And here I thought it'd be about news. But no, movie reviews. Give me a news API and then we'll talk, NYTimes.
- iamelgringo 18y ago
  Additionally, the terms you retrieve with the TimesTags API can be used with the Times Article Search API (currently in development). It's coming. I took the above quote from here: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/timestags_api http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/timestags_api
- lawrence 18y ago
  and you can't actually pull the reviews - only a snippet, and then link to them. and their whole api is crippled by a non commercial use clause. looks great on paper, but the NYT has been very timid in their implementation.
pchristensen 18y ago
About as many as will be around in 20 years...
jonursenbach 18y ago
If you click your back button when you're on the documentation page (not the loading page), you'll send yourself into an infinite loop with their login system. Heh.
iamelgringo 18y ago
I've just been impressed with what the Times has been doing with the web recently. They seem to get it. So many newspapers are going the way of the Auk, it's nice to see the Times start to offer some compelling offerings to developers. Newspapers have an immense amount of long tail content, but most of them don't have a clue that their old content is valuable. I'm excited to see that the Times is starting offer API's to let developers play with some of that long tail content. The movie reviews API is really just a start. They also have a tags API, and they say that they're working on a search API on this page: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/timestags_api http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/timestags_api
bonaldi 18y ago
Compared to the blundering idiocy that's rampant in the traditional media -- including attempting to sue people for linking to their stories! -- the NYTimes crew are operating at genius-level. It's really refreshing to see someone get it, especially considering how vital print newsrooms are.
snprbob86 18y ago
The API metric is missing from this, otherwise excellent, chart: http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/newspaper-study-2b.png http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/newspap...
vkgupta 18y ago
I work for Daylife and any newspaper or blogger can have an API for their own content using our API platform, as long as they are in our index (http://developer.daylife.com http://developer.daylife.com). The API interface is scalable, very malleable and flexible to use letting you ask almost 400+ questions through the interface. A sample Nytimes API can look as simple as this - http://nytimes.enterpriseapi.daylife.com/articles/obama http://nytimes.enterpriseapi.daylife.com/articles/obama Vineet at daylife dot com

26 points by iamelgringo 18y ago

seldo 18y ago

At least one other: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/inside/authors/matt_mcalister/index.html http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/inside/authors/matt_mcalister/in... (although theirs seems to have no published APIs or documentation that I can find, yet)

danw 18y ago

Does rss count as an api?

SingAlong 18y ago
IMO yes if they can offer different parameters for search keywords etc. (like Twitter's search RSS/Atom feed allows search parameters) Newspapers, have read about a few sometime ago. Associated Press offers one (feeds). But the best choice would be to go for Daylife's API. http://developer.daylife.com http://developer.daylife.com They index news sources including blogs and newspapers and other sites. You can refine the sources by the sourceIDs and hence select only newspapers for your API results. Good luck!
nir 18y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking... Since it's all GET, a properly implemented RSS/Atom feed could go a long way towards a newspaper API, and might even be a better solution in some ways - no extra code to develop/maintain, no API key requirement, little need for documentation etc.
Harkins 18y ago
If you work at a newspaper, any XML output of any kind is called an API and spoken of as equivalent to, say, the Amazon Associates API.

petercooper 18y ago

Title doesn't match the content.

ajkirwin 18y ago

And here I thought it'd be about news. But no, movie reviews. Give me a news API and then we'll talk, NYTimes.

iamelgringo 18y ago
Additionally, the terms you retrieve with the TimesTags API can be used with the Times Article Search API (currently in development). It's coming. I took the above quote from here: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/timestags_api http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/timestags_api
lawrence 18y ago
and you can't actually pull the reviews - only a snippet, and then link to them. and their whole api is crippled by a non commercial use clause. looks great on paper, but the NYT has been very timid in their implementation.

pchristensen 18y ago

About as many as will be around in 20 years...

jonursenbach 18y ago

If you click your back button when you're on the documentation page (not the loading page), you'll send yourself into an infinite loop with their login system. Heh.

iamelgringo 18y ago

I've just been impressed with what the Times has been doing with the web recently. They seem to get it. So many newspapers are going the way of the Auk, it's nice to see the Times start to offer some compelling offerings to developers. Newspapers have an immense amount of long tail content, but most of them don't have a clue that their old content is valuable. I'm excited to see that the Times is starting offer API's to let developers play with some of that long tail content. The movie reviews API is really just a start. They also have a tags API, and they say that they're working on a search API on this page: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/timestags_api http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/timestags_api

bonaldi 18y ago

Compared to the blundering idiocy that's rampant in the traditional media -- including attempting to sue people for linking to their stories! -- the NYTimes crew are operating at genius-level. It's really refreshing to see someone get it, especially considering how vital print newsrooms are.

snprbob86 18y ago

The API metric is missing from this, otherwise excellent, chart: http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/newspaper-study-2b.png http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/newspap...

vkgupta 18y ago

I work for Daylife and any newspaper or blogger can have an API for their own content using our API platform, as long as they are in our index (http://developer.daylife.com http://developer.daylife.com). The API interface is scalable, very malleable and flexible to use letting you ask almost 400+ questions through the interface. A sample Nytimes API can look as simple as this - http://nytimes.enterpriseapi.daylife.com/articles/obama http://nytimes.enterpriseapi.daylife.com/articles/obama Vineet at daylife dot com