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Content publishers are jumping for joy on this one: The New York Times announced that it has launched its Article Search API covering articles from 1981 to the present day.
API means “application programming interface.”
The API can be used for retrieving headlines, abstracts, lead paragraphs and links to associated multimedia. To use it, you need to get an API key from the Time and also need to agree to their terms and conditions and attribution guidelines.
You can read the New York Times’ developer announcement here.
I am almost positive that we’ll see some interesting software programs come out within the next few weeks that integrate keyword searches and the New York Times’ article search API.
The Times might be the leader of the pack when it comes to technology. Newspapers are finding that Internet media may be more popular than printed papers. Who knows … this API might turn some profits for the paper, since it appears that to read the entire article that may appear in the search results, a person will need to pay for the content.
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At a time of diminishing paper sales I think the papers need to start integrating with the on-line community more and the New York Times is obviously ahead of the game. Its a good idea that they are making all that information available.
Great observation, Khaled. I suspect that we’re going to be seeing the major media charging for access to its online content at some point.
nice.
I’m looking forward to seeing some of the applications that come out so we can use this data easily … without having to do our own programming.