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From their FAQ: 11. What do you mean by "commercial purposes"? Here are a few examples of what we consider commercial purposes: 1. Selling New York Times con
by flocial 12y ago
From their FAQ:
11. What do you mean by "commercial purposes"?
Here are a few examples of what we consider commercial purposes:
1. Selling New York Times content or data in any application.
2. Charging a subscription fee for any New York Times content or data.
3. Selling any application built with one of our APIs.
If you are making more than 5,000 calls per day (via an application or any other method) to an individual API, we will notice that and assume you're using our API for a commercial purpose. Please contact us if you have hit that limit but do not think you are using the API for a commercial purpose.
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It looks enticing but I'm not entirely sure if these limitations negate the purpose of the API existing (aside from internal use and hobbyists using it for personal purposes).
- boise 12y agoWhat do view as the purpose of the API existing?
- flocial 12y agoIt just seems like a blanket ban on any commercial applications without some kind of payment and a very small request limit (5000), limits people who will even consider experimenting with it. It seems more geared for web applications/sites that have no native phone apps.
- superuser2 12y agoMake the API requests from your server and serve clients yourself?
- cowsandmilk 12y ago(a) I've used it for academic research (b) Does not seem to exclude use in an open source application or freeware. (c) They tell you to e-mail them if you want to use it commercially. They have a documented API you can play with, then if you want to make a commercial product, you can pay them and use the same api that you are already familiar with and understand the capabilities of.