The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company Stories API

The Stories API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for stories.

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Operations 1

GET /{section}.json Top Stories #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: 2.0.0
  title: Top Stories API
  description: The Top Stories API returns an array of articles currently on the specified section (arts, business, ...).
servers:
- url: https://api.nytimes.com/svc/topstories/v2
security:
- apikey: []
tags:
- name: Stories
paths:
  /{section}.json:
    get:
      summary: Top Stories
      description: The Top Stories API returns an array of articles currently on the specified section.
      parameters:
      - name: section
        in: path
        description: The section the story appears in.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - arts
          - automobiles
          - books
          - business
          - fashion
          - food
          - health
          - home
          - insider
          - magazine
          - movies
          - national
          - nyregion
          - obituaries
          - opinion
          - politics
          - realestate
          - science
          - sports
          - sundayreview
          - technology
          - theater
          - tmagazine
          - travel
          - upshot
          - world
          default: home
      tags:
      - Stories
      responses:
        '200':
          description: An array of articles.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  status:
                    type: string
                  copyright:
                    type: string
                  section:
                    type: string
                  last_updated:
                    type: string
                  num_results:
                    type: integer
                  results:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Article'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized request.  Make sure api-key is set.
        '429':
          description: Too many requests.  You reached your per minute or per day rate limit.
      operationId: get{section}Json
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  schemas:
    Article:
      type: object
      properties:
        section:
          type: string
        subsection:
          type: string
        title:
          type: string
        abstract:
          type: string
        url:
          type: string
        byline:
          type: string
        item_type:
          type: string
        updated_date:
          type: string
        created_date:
          type: string
        published_date:
          type: string
        material_type_facet:
          type: string
        kicker:
          type: string
        des_facet:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        org_facet:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        per_facet:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        geo_facet:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        multimedia:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              url:
                type: string
              format:
                type: string
              height:
                type: integer
              width:
                type: integer
              type:
                type: string
              subtype:
                type: string
              caption:
                type: string
              copyright:
                type: string
        short_url:
          type: string
  securitySchemes:
    apikey:
      type: apiKey
      name: api-key
      in: query

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