Chronicling America

aid: chroniclingamerica
name: Chronicling America
description: Chronicling America is a Library of Congress initiative providing free public access to a searchable database
  of historic American newspaper pages from 1770 to 1963. The platform hosts over 20 million digitized newspaper pages from
  hundreds of US newspapers contributed by institutions in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The API exposes
  search, title, issue, batch, and OCR text endpoints with no authentication required, returning responses in JSON and Atom
  feed formats.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/chroniclingamerica.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chroniclingamerica/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Newspapers
- Historical
- Archives
- Library of Congress
- Government
- Digitized
- OCR
- Search
- Cultural Heritage
apis:
- aid: chroniclingamerica:chroniclingamerica-batches-api
  name: Chronicling America Batches API
  description: Endpoints for retrieving digitization batch information.
  humanURL: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  tags:
  - Batches
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chroniclingamerica-batches-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/privacy-policy/
- aid: chroniclingamerica:chroniclingamerica-issues-api
  name: Chronicling America Issues API
  description: Endpoints for retrieving newspaper issue metadata.
  humanURL: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  tags:
  - Issues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chroniclingamerica-issues-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/privacy-policy/
- aid: chroniclingamerica:chroniclingamerica-ocr-api
  name: Chronicling America OCR API
  description: Endpoints for retrieving OCR text from digitized newspaper pages.
  humanURL: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  tags:
  - OCR
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chroniclingamerica-ocr-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/privacy-policy/
- aid: chroniclingamerica:chroniclingamerica-pages-api
  name: Chronicling America Pages API
  description: Endpoints for retrieving individual newspaper page metadata and content.
  humanURL: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  tags:
  - Pages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chroniclingamerica-pages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/privacy-policy/
- aid: chroniclingamerica:chroniclingamerica-search-api
  name: Chronicling America Search API
  description: Full-text search endpoints for newspaper pages and titles.
  humanURL: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chroniclingamerica-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/privacy-policy/
- aid: chroniclingamerica:chroniclingamerica-titles-api
  name: Chronicling America Titles API
  description: Endpoints for retrieving newspaper title bibliographic metadata.
  humanURL: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  tags:
  - Titles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chroniclingamerica-titles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/privacy-policy/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/chroniclingamerica-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/chroniclingamerica-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chroniclingamerica-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
- type: Documentation
  url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
- type: About
  url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/librarycongress
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/library-of-congress
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.loc.gov/legal/privacy-policy/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/chroniclingamerica-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/chroniclingamerica-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/chroniclingamerica-finops.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chroniclingamerica/refs/heads/main/json-ld/chroniclingamerica.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com