Chronicling America · Pricing Plans

Chroniclingamerica Plans Pricing

Chronicling America is a free public service of the Library of Congress funded by the US federal government through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). There are no paid tiers, API keys, registration requirements, or commercial licensing fees. All API endpoints are open and free to use.

Chroniclingamerica Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Chronicling America on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.

It defines 1 plan, covering free tiers, with named plans including Free Public Access.

Tagged areas include Newspapers, Historical, Archives, Library of Congress, and Government.

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NewspapersHistoricalArchivesLibrary of CongressGovernmentDigitizedOCRSearch

Plans

Free Public Access free

Unrestricted free access to all Chronicling America API endpoints including full-text search, title metadata, issue listings, page records, OCR text, and image downloads. No registration, API key, or authentication required.

Page Search Requests (requests · month) 0.00 USD
Rate Limit (requests_per_minute · minute) 0.00 USD

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