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 endpointsCommunity 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 endpointsMost 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.
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.