The New York Times APIs for AI Agents
MediaContent DeliveryData TransformationOfficial Vendor SpecsAPI keyAgent Ready
The New York Times API Catalog
11 APIs across 2 product groups. All share one credential.
Media8
Books APILook up NYT Best Sellers rankings, list metadata, and book reviews for any title or author across more than 50 list categories.~6 endpointsCommunity APIRead NYT user comments by article URL, by user, by date, or as a recent feed across the site.~4 endpointsMost Popular APIGet the most-emailed, most-shared, and most-viewed NYT articles by section over the last 1, 7, or 30 days.~3 endpointsMovie Reviews APISearch NYT movie reviews by keyword, filter Critics' Picks, and look up NYT film critic profiles.~3 endpointsTimes Newswire APIStream the latest NYT and AP article URLs and metadata as soon as they are published, filterable by source and section.~3 endpointsArchive APIRetrieve a complete month of New York Times article metadata going back to 1851 from a single year/month endpoint, authenticated with an API key in the query string.~1 endpointArticle Search APIRun keyword and filter queries across NYT articles from 1851 to today and return headline, abstract, lead paragraph, and metadata fields, authenticated with an API key in the query string.~1 endpointTop Stories APIGet the editor-curated NYT articles from any section front, including home, world, business, technology, opinion, and arts.~1 endpoint
Data Enrichment3
Semantic APIResolve people, organizations, descriptors, and other named entities against the NYT controlled vocabulary and return linked-data records.~2 endpointsGeographic APIResolve place names against the NYT geographic controlled vocabulary and return linked location data with coordinates and article references.~1 endpointTimesTags APIGet autocomplete-style tag suggestions from the NYT controlled vocabulary as a user types a partial query.~1 endpoint
Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
You create one New York Times developer key, enable the Times APIs you want on it, and register it once with Jentic. From then on an agent reaches every enabled Times API through the same search, load, and execute calls, without per-API wiring.
Permission scoping
You decide which Times APIs the key can reach by enabling them in the developer portal, and which operations your agent is allowed to call through Jentic, so a research agent can be limited to read-only article search without touching anything else.
Credential isolation
Your single New York Times developer key is stored encrypted by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. The agent receives results, never the raw key, and the one key covers all 11 Times APIs.
FAQs
Specific to using The New York Times APIs through Jentic.
Can AI agents use New York Times APIs?
Yes. All 11 New York Times APIs have OpenAPI specifications in the Jentic API Directory, so an agent can discover and call them by intent. Through Jentic the agent searches for an operation, loads its schema, and executes, without reading the Times documentation first. Install Jentic One (self-hosted) from https://github.com/jentic/jentic-one to get started.
Do I need a separate key for each New York Times API?
No. The Times uses one developer key across all of its APIs. You create the key once and enable each API on it. Through Jentic the key is stored encrypted and injected at execution time, so it never enters the agent's context.
Does The New York Times publish OpenAPI specs?
The specifications in the Jentic API Directory for the Times APIs are vendor-official, sourced from the Times developer portal. The operations, parameters, and responses match what the Times documents itself.
How do I connect my agent to the New York Times APIs?
Install Jentic One on your own infrastructure from its GitHub repo, register your New York Times developer key with it once, and add the Times APIs from the Jentic API Directory. Your agent then searches by intent, for example 'search New York Times articles', and Jentic returns the matching operation across the Times APIs with its input schema.
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