TimesTags API

Name: TimesTags API API
Brand: TimesTags API
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For Agents

Get autocomplete-style tag suggestions from the NYT controlled vocabulary as a user types a partial query.

Quickstart

Get started with TimesTags API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

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

# Then ask your agent:
"autocomplete NYT vocabulary tag"

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

Capabilities

What an agent can do with TimesTags API API.

Suggest NYT vocabulary tags from a partial query string

Filter suggestions by entity type filter such as Per, Org, or Geo

Limit the number of returned suggestions via the max query parameter

Surface the canonical capitalised tag string for each match

Power type-ahead UIs for editorial content management systems

GET STARTED

Start building with TimesTags API API

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View OpenAPI Document

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.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use TimesTags API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Editorial Tagging Type-Ahead

Power a type-ahead picker in a CMS so journalists tag NYT-controlled-vocabulary entities consistently. The /timestags endpoint accepts a query parameter with the partial string and an optional filter for entity type, returning ranked tag suggestions in canonical capitalisation. Each response is fast enough for keystroke-by-keystroke UI updates.

Call /timestags?query=Apple&max=10 and return the top 10 tag suggestions with their entity-type prefix for picker UI rendering.

Pre-Resolution Before Semantic Lookup

Use TimesTags to narrow a user's free-text query to the canonical NYT vocabulary form before issuing a Semantic API call for the full linked-data record. The autocomplete output gives the agent a confident tag string, which it then passes to /name/{concept-type}/{specific-concept}.json on the Semantic API to retrieve article references and related concepts.

Call /timestags?query=federal+reserve&filter=(Org) and return the highest-ranked Org suggestion for downstream /name lookup on the Semantic API.

Faceted Search Filter Builder

Build a faceted search filter over NYT-tagged content where users select tags from autocomplete suggestions rather than free-text queries. The TimesTags API supplies the filter values; the Article Search API consumes them as fq facets.

Call /timestags?query=climate&filter=(Des) and return the descriptor suggestions to populate the search facet dropdown.

Agent-Driven Tag Suggestion via Jentic

An AI editorial assistant uses Jentic to call TimesTags whenever a user mentions an entity by partial name. Jentic returns the /timestags operation, the agent loads the schema and executes the call without manually wiring the api-key or learning the filter syntax for entity types.

Search Jentic for 'autocomplete NYT vocabulary tag', load the /timestags operation, and execute it with query='gates' and filter='(Per)'.

Key Endpoints

1 endpoints — the new york times timestags api is an autocomplete service over the nyt controlled vocabulary used to tag nyt articles.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/timestags

Get autocomplete tag suggestions matching a partial query

GET

/timestags

Get autocomplete tag suggestions matching a partial query

Why though Jentic?

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

Credential isolation

The NYT api-key is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and injected into the api-key query parameter at execution time. The same credential authenticates every NYT API in the workspace, so a single rotation updates TimesTags, Semantic, Geographic, and the others together.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic for 'autocomplete NYT vocabulary tag' or 'suggest NYT tags' and Jentic returns the /timestags operation with its filter syntax in the parameter schema, removing the need to read NYT documentation.

Time to first call

Direct integration: an hour or two to wire the api-key, learn the (Per,Org,Geo,Des) filter syntax, and add debouncing in the UI. Through Jentic: under 15 minutes.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

NYT Semantic API

Linked-data follow-up to TimesTags suggestions, returning article references and related concepts.

Use TimesTags for autocomplete; pass the resolved tag to Semantic API when full linked-data enrichment is needed.

Complementary

NYT Geographic API

Geographic-specific extension for the Geo tag suggestions returned by TimesTags.

Pipe Geo-filtered TimesTags suggestions into the Geographic API for coordinates and place-specific linked data.

Complementary

NYT Top Stories API

Section-level NYT articles that can be filtered downstream by resolved tag.

After resolving a tag with TimesTags, use Top Stories for the corresponding section's recent coverage.

FAQs

Specific to using TimesTags API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the NYT TimesTags API use?

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

How do I filter suggestions to only people or only locations?

Pass the filter query parameter with a parenthesised type code such as (Per) for persons, (Org) for organizations, (Geo) for locations, or (Des) for descriptors. Combine multiple types with a comma, e.g. filter=(Per,Org). The default returns matches across every type.

What are the rate limits for the NYT TimesTags API?

NYT enforces 500 requests per day and 5 requests per minute per API key, shared across all NYT developer APIs. For type-ahead UIs, debounce keystrokes by 250 ms and only call after 2-3 characters to stay under the per-minute cap.

How do I get tag suggestions for a partial name through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'autocomplete NYT vocabulary tag', load the /timestags operation, and execute it with query set to the partial string and an optional filter type. Jentic returns the parameter schema so the agent uses the correct filter syntax.

Is the NYT TimesTags API free to use?

Yes. NYT offers TimesTags at no cost on the developer portal for non-commercial use within published rate limits. Commercial or high-volume use requires direct contact with the NYT licensing team.

Does this API return article references or only the tag string?

TimesTags returns only the canonical tag string with its entity-type prefix. To retrieve article references, related concepts, and full linked-data records, pass the resolved tag to the Semantic API's /name endpoint or to the Geographic API for locations.