Nytimes Times Newswire API

Name: Times Newswire API
Brand: Times Newswire API
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Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Times Newswire API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Times Newswire API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Times Newswire API.

Stream the latest NYT and AP article URLs as they publish

Filter the wire to a specific source (NYT or IHT) or all sources

Restrict the wire to a chosen section such as Politics or Business

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For Agents

Stream the latest NYT and AP article URLs and metadata as soon as they are published, filterable by source and section.

Use for: Get the latest NYT articles published in the last hour, Stream new Politics articles as they publish, Find recently published NYT articles in the Business section, List the latest articles across every section and source

Not supported: Does not provide full article body text, push delivery, or reader engagement metrics - use for chronological streaming of newly-published NYT and AP article metadata only.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Times Newswire API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Newsroom Monitor

Build a near-real-time dashboard that surfaces every newly published NYT article in chosen sections. The /content/{source}/{section}.json endpoint returns the latest entries with title, byline, abstract, multimedia, and the canonical URL, so a polling loop every 30 seconds gives a fresh wire view without overrunning rate limits.

Call /content/nyt/all.json every 30 seconds and emit each article URL not seen in the previous response.

Section-Filtered Content Distribution

Distribute newly published NYT articles to downstream channels filtered by section. The Times Newswire endpoints accept a section path segment so a Politics-only feed can be fed straight into a Slack channel, push notification system, or RSS conversion pipeline.

Call /content/nyt/politics.json every minute and forward new article entries to a Slack channel via webhook.

Editorial Calendar Backfill

Backfill a wider time window using the /content/{source}/{section}/{time-period}.json endpoint, which supports configurable look-back periods. This lets an editorial system reconstruct the publish timeline for a section over recent hours rather than only the latest snapshot.

Call /content/nyt/business/24.json once per day and ingest the full 24-hour publication list for the Business section.

Agent-Driven News Monitoring via Jentic

An AI news monitoring agent uses Jentic to pull the latest NYT wire on demand. Jentic returns the matching /content endpoint with its source/section/time-period parameter schema, the agent loads it and executes the call without manually wiring the URL templates.

Search Jentic for 'stream latest NYT articles', load the /content/{source}/{section}.json operation, and execute it with source='nyt' and section='all'.

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — the new york times times newswire api is a real-time stream of nyt article urls and metadata, updated as soon as articles are published on nytimes.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/content.json

Latest articles across every source and section

GET

/content/{source}/{section}.json

Latest articles for a chosen source and section

GET

/content/{source}/{section}/{time-period}.json

Articles for a chosen source, section, and time period

GET

/content.json

Latest articles across every source and section

GET

/content/{source}/{section}.json

Latest articles for a chosen source and section

GET

/content/{source}/{section}/{time-period}.json

Articles for a chosen source, section, and time period

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your NYT api-key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected into the api-key query parameter at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'stream the latest NYT articles' or 'monitor a NYT section feed', and Jentic returns the matching /content operation with its source, section, and time-period parameters so the agent calls the right endpoint without reading the NYT documentation.

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FAQs

Specific to using Times Newswire API through Jentic.

What authentication does the NYT Times Newswire API use?

Authentication is an API key passed as the api-key query parameter on every endpoint. Provision a key at developer.nytimes.com. Through Jentic the credential lives in the vault and is injected at execution time, so the agent never sees the raw key.

How fresh is the Times Newswire data?

The wire updates within seconds of an article's publication on NYTimes.com or arrival from the Associated Press. Polling /content/nyt/all.json every 30 seconds gives near-real-time coverage without exceeding the 5-requests-per-minute cap.

What are the rate limits for the NYT Times Newswire API?

NYT enforces 500 requests per day and 5 requests per minute per API key, shared across all NYT developer APIs. With the 30-second polling cadence on a single section, a single key can monitor about 2-3 sections simultaneously within budget.

How do I stream the latest NYT articles through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'stream latest NYT articles', load the /content/{source}/{section}.json operation, and execute it with source='nyt' and section='all'. Track the URLs returned and emit each new entry on subsequent calls.

Is the NYT Times Newswire API free to use?

Yes. NYT offers Times Newswire at no cost on the developer portal for non-commercial use within the published rate limits. Commercial redistribution of NYT content requires a separate licensing agreement with the NYT licensing team.

Does this API include full article body text?

No. The wire returns headline, byline, abstract, URL, multimedia, and tag facets, but not full body text. Use the URL to direct readers to NYTimes.com or pair with the Article Search API for archived content lookups.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Times Newswire API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which Times Newswire operations and credentials the agent can use. Since this API is read-only chronological streaming of newly-published article metadata, you can scope it by operation: allow only the content-feed calls the agent needs, such as the combined /content.json feed or a specific /content/{source}/{section}.json source and section, and leave the rest out. Nothing beyond the feed operations you grant will run, and your stored NYT api-key is injected only for the calls you permit.