NYT Times Newswire API: All the News That Will Fit
We continue to be impressed with the direction The New York Times is taking with their Times Open strategy - exposing more and more data from the Gray Lady via a number of APIs. The level of access that the venerable publication has continued to provide has been laudable. There's just been one thing missing: immediacy. But the latest API - one of the most impressive to date - takes care of that concern. Introducing the Times Newswire API, an interface that provides immediate access to articles on NYTimes.com - as they're published.
The API - unveiled last week at the Times Open event - allows developers to access Times articles as soon as they hit NYTimes.com. It includes information on the geographic locations, companies, and people mentioned in the article, as well as categories and tags from the editorial team. And it updates minute-by-minute. Blog posts aren't available yet, but they will be soon.
Why not just use the RSS feed? According to the NYT, the API is better:
"Better than RSS, the Times Newswire API offers chronologically ordered cross-site results, including rich metadata. The response data fields include headlines, summaries, URLs, sections and subsections, bylines, date fields (created, updated, published), indexing terms, media and more. In the words of NYT developer Michael Donohoe, this truly is 'One Feed to Rule Them All.'"
Think about that for a second: every article the NYT publishes, instantaneously. And every one of those articles is coupled with structured data that makes it easy to mix and match with other data sources. That's pretty forward thinking for a publication that, not so long ago, was still blocking access to their content on the Web. And that's why we find this so compelling.
The potential opportunities for applying this information are mindboggling. It will be interesting to see how it's employed by the development community - and what the NYT has up its API sleeve next.
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This looks promising. But I am not able to understand their business strategy behind this.
I am a big RWW fan, but I think the NY Times love fest has gone a bit overboard. Normally there is a disclosure that RWW is syndicated on the tech section of the Times, which is missing from this post. Also, the new API feature is good, but until someone actually uses it in an interesting way it is fairly pointless. It might be better to cover the site that uses the new API, instead of just covering how great the NY Times is at forward thinking media.
Can't wait to re-read this article on the NY Times.
I continue to be excited about the NYT opening up their content. This continues to be a great way to increase awareness and get more eyeballs. Yet, I'm looking to see how this content will truly become important on the web again with the increase in blogs, social media, twitter, etc. It's exciting to see NYT embracing blogs like RWW - they'll figure it out eventually.
thanks you..
The addition of "immediacy" makes the API a lot more compelling to developers.
As news app developers, we're excited to look at ways to integrate the API's into our products.
I too am curious about their plans to monetize this "open" strategy - One simple option may be for NYT to embed ads into the content. Ads that travel with the content will pick up a lot more impressions.
As a niche news aggregator, we are very excited by how NYT are opening their content to third-parties. RSS does not provide the richness and detail that is required for complex sorting, searching and categorisation of data, unless we hold a copy of that data on our own servers for indexing. At a minimum, NYT will benefit from a larger readership, better visibility of their brand (particularly outside of the US) and more incoming links.
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