Books API APIs

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Books API

The New York Times Books API provides programmatic access to NYT Best Sellers lists and book reviews. Agents can retrieve current and historical best seller rankings across more than 50 list categories (hardcover fiction, nonfiction, children's, advice, graphic novels), look up an individual title's appearance history, and pull reviews written by NYT critics. Results include ISBNs, author names, publishers, weeks-on-list counts, and Amazon product URLs, making the data immediately usable for book recommendation and discovery experiences.

6 endpoints

Community API

The New York Times Community API provides read access to comments left by registered users on NYT articles. Agents can pull recent comments site-wide, filter by article URL, retrieve a specific user's comment history, or fetch comments posted within a date range. Each comment record includes the author's display name, comment body, recommendation count, NYT pick flag, and the article URL it was posted on. The API is officially marked deprecated by NYT, but the endpoints continue to respond and remain useful for archival research and sentiment analysis on legacy NYT comment threads.

4 endpoints

Geographic API

The New York Times Geographic API extends the NYT Semantic API with a linked-data layer that resolves location concepts in the NYT controlled vocabulary against external geographic data sources. A single /query.json endpoint accepts a place name or NYT geo concept identifier and returns enriched location records with coordinates, geo facets, and references to the NYT articles tagged with that location. It is designed for agents that need to disambiguate place names mentioned in NYT coverage and link them to consistent geographic identifiers.

Connect Your Agent

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"find live events near a location"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

1 endpoints

Most Popular API

The New York Times Most Popular API returns the most-emailed, most-shared, and most-viewed NYT articles for the past 1, 7, or 30 days. Three GET endpoints take a section filter and a time-period parameter and respond with ranked article lists including title, byline, abstract, publication date, web URL, and embedded media. The API is a fast way to surface trending NYT coverage and identify the stories generating the most reader engagement.

3 endpoints

Movie Reviews API

The New York Times Movie Reviews API exposes the NYT film criticism archive through three GET endpoints. Agents can search reviews by keyword, filter by Critics' Pick status, opening date, or publication date, and look up the roster of NYT film critics with their bio and profile image. Each review record includes the film title, MPAA rating, byline, headline, summary short, link to the full review, and an opening-date flag, supporting film discovery, recommendation, and editorial integrations.

3 endpoints

NYT Archive API

The New York Times Archive API returns the complete list of NYT articles published in a given month, going back to September 1851. Each response is a month's worth of article metadata — headlines, abstracts, bylines, sections, keywords, and links — making it the canonical bulk-retrieval endpoint for NYT content. The API exposes a single GET path keyed by year and month, which is intentionally the simplest possible surface for building local mirrors of NYT metadata, training corpora, longitudinal analysis sets, and timelines.

1 endpoints

NYT Article Search API

The New York Times Article Search API exposes a single search endpoint that runs queries against NYT articles published from September 18, 1851 to today. It supports keyword queries, filter queries (Lucene-style on fields such as section, byline, and date), date ranges, sorting, and faceting, and returns headlines, abstracts, lead paragraphs, multimedia links, and other article metadata. The endpoint is well suited to building topic monitors, citation tools, research dashboards, and AI agents that need to retrieve specific articles rather than walk the full archive.

1 endpoints

Semantic API

The New York Times Semantic API exposes the NYT controlled vocabulary of people, places, organizations, descriptors, titles of works, and other named entities used to tag NYT articles. Two endpoints support the workflow: /search.json returns concepts matching a query string with optional concept-type filtering, and /name/{concept-type}/{specific-concept}.json returns the linked-data record for a single concept including article references, related concepts, and external resource links. The API is designed for entity linking, knowledge-graph enrichment, and disambiguating named entities mentioned in editorial content.

2 endpoints

Times Newswire API

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.com or sourced from the Associated Press. Three GET endpoints return content from a chosen source (all, nyt, or iht), section, and time-period combination. Each item carries title, byline, abstract, publication date, web URL, geographic facets, organisational facets, and embedded multimedia, supporting near-real-time newsroom monitoring and downstream content distribution.

3 endpoints

TimesTags API

The New York Times TimesTags API is an autocomplete service over the NYT controlled vocabulary used to tag NYT articles. A single /timestags endpoint accepts a partial query string and returns ranked tag suggestions across persons, organizations, locations, descriptors, titles of works, and other entity types. Each suggestion includes the canonical tag string with a leading classifier (e.g. 'Per:', 'Org:', 'Geo:'), letting an autocomplete UI label suggestions by entity type. The API is the recommended front door for type-ahead lookups before deeper linked-data calls into the Semantic and Geographic APIs.

1 endpoints

Books API APIs

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Books API

Community API

Geographic API

Connect Your Agent

Most Popular API

Movie Reviews API

NYT Archive API

NYT Article Search API

Semantic API

Times Newswire API

TimesTags API

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