# The New York Times APIs

Category: [Publishers and feeds](https://free-web-services.com/web-services/news/publishers/)  
Page: https://free-web-services.com/web-services/news/publishers/the-new-york-times-apis.html  
Documentation: https://developer.nytimes.com/apis

The New York Times offers a set of free APIs: Article Search for articles back to 1851, Top Stories per section, Most Popular articles, the Books API with the bestseller lists, the Times Wire for the newest articles, the Archive by month, and more. Responses are JSON. Free, with a free API key and a daily request limit.

- API key: Needed, free
- Pricing: Free, with a free API key and a daily request limit.
- From the browser: Yes (CORS)
- Formats: JSON
- Interface: REST, HTTP-GET
- Provider: developer.nytimes.com
- Last checked: Working on November 2nd, 2026

Example request:

```sh
curl 'https://api.nytimes.com/svc/search/v2/articlesearch.json?q=london&api-key=YOUR_API_KEY'
```

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your own key. The JavaScript works in a web page as well as in Node.js 18 or newer.