# Chronicling America API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/loc/chronicling-america-api/  
**Provider:** Library of Congress — https://apis.io/providers/loc/  
**Base URL:** https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov  
**Documentation:** https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/

Chronicling America API is one of 25 APIs that [Library of Congress](https://apis.io/providers/loc/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Newspapers, Historical, Digitized, Search, and OCR. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The Chronicling America API provides access to the historic American newspapers collection digitized by the Library of Congress and its partners. Endpoints allow searching and retrieving pages, titles, batches, and OCR text. No authentication is required.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/loc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Library of Congress APIs (12)

- [Library of Congress amendments API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-amendments-api/)
- [Library of Congress bill API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-bill-api/)
- [Library of Congress bound-congressional-record API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-bound-congressional-record-api/)
- [Library of Congress collections API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-collections-api/)
- [Library of Congress committee API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-committee-api/)
- [Library of Congress committee-meeting API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-committee-meeting-api/)
- [Library of Congress committee-print API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-committee-print-api/)
- [Library of Congress committee-report API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-committee-report-api/)
- [Library of Congress congress API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-congress-api/)
- [Library of Congress congressional-record API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-congressional-record-api/)
- [Library of Congress crsreport API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-crsreport-api/)
- [Library of Congress daily-congressional-record API](https://apis.io/apis/loc/loc-daily-congressional-record-api/)

## Tags

Newspapers, Historical, Digitized, Search, OCR

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