Chronicling America API
type: WebAPI
description: Library of Congress API providing free public access to a searchable database of historic American newspaper pages from 1770 to 1963. Covers over 20 million digitized newspaper pages from hundreds of US newspapers contributed by institutions in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
documentation: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
provider: Library of Congress
license: https://www.loc.gov/legal/
terms of service: https://www.loc.gov/legal/
privacy policy: https://www.loc.gov/legal/privacy-policy/
is part of: National Digital Newspaper Program
potential action: Search Newspaper Pages
  type: SearchAction
  description: Full-text search across 20+ million historic newspaper pages
  target: EntryPoint
    url template: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/
    http method: GET
    encoding type: application/json
  query-input: required name=search_term
potential action: Search Newspaper Titles
  type: SearchAction
  description: Search bibliographic metadata for newspaper titles
  target: EntryPoint
    url template: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/
    http method: GET
    encoding type: application/json
  query-input: required name=search_term
available channel: JSON API
  type: ServiceChannel
  service url: Chronicling America API
  service type: REST API
available channel: Atom Feed
  type: ServiceChannel
  service url: Chronicling America API
  service type: Atom Feed
about: Newspapers
  type: Thing
  description: Historic American newspaper pages
about: Cultural Heritage
  type: Thing
  description: Digitized cultural heritage materials
about: American History
  type: Thing
  description: Historical records from 1770 to 1963
about: OCR Text
  type: Thing
  description: Optical Character Recognition text from digitized pages
temporal coverage: 1770/1963
spatial coverage: United States of America
language: en
language: es
language: fr
language: de
language: it
language: pt
language: cs
language: pl
language: hu
language: da
language: no
language: sv
language: fi
keywords: newspapers
keywords: historical
keywords: archives
keywords: Library of Congress
keywords: government
keywords: digitized
keywords: OCR
keywords: search
keywords: cultural heritage
keywords: LCCN
keywords: NDNP
keywords: IIIF