swagger: '2.0' basePath: /svc/archive/v1 host: api.nytimes.com info: version: 2.0.0 title: Archive description: | The Archive API returns an array of NYT articles for a given month, going back to 1851. Its response fields are the same as the Article Search API. The Archive API is very useful if you want to build your own database of NYT article metadata. You simply pass the API the year and month and it returns a JSON object with all articles for that month. The response size can be large (~20mb). ``` /{year}/{month}.json ``` ## Example Call ``` https://api.nytimes.com/svc/archive/v1/2019/1.json?api-key=yourkey ``` schemes: - https produces: - application/json security: - apikey: [] paths: '/{year}/{month}.json': get: summary: Returns an array of articles for a given month. description: | Pass in year and month and get back JSON with all articles for that month. The response can be big (~20 megabytes) and contain thousands of articles, depending on the year and month. parameters: - name: year in: path description: 'Year: 1851-2019' required: true type: integer default: 2018 - name: month in: path description: 'Year: 1-12' required: true type: integer default: 9 tags: - Archive responses: '200': description: An array of articles. schema: type: object properties: copyright: type: string response: type: object properties: meta: type: object properties: hits: type: integer docs: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Article' '401': description: Unauthorized request, check api-key is set. schema: type: object properties: fault: type: object properties: faultstring: type: string detail: type: object properties: errorcode: type: string '429': description: Too many requests. You reached your per minute or per day rate limit. definitions: Article: type: object properties: web_url: type: string snippet: type: string print_page: type: integer source: type: string multimedia: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Multimedia' headline: $ref: '#/definitions/Headline' keywords: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Keyword' pub_date: type: string document_type: type: string news_desk: type: string byline: $ref: '#/definitions/Byline' type_of_material: type: string _id: type: string word_count: type: integer score: type: integer uri: type: string Byline: type: object properties: original: type: string person: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Person' organization: type: string Headline: type: object properties: main: type: string kicker: type: string content_kicker: type: string print_headline: type: string name: type: string seo: type: string sub: type: string Keyword: type: object properties: name: type: string value: type: string rank: type: integer major: type: string Multimedia: type: object properties: rank: type: integer subtype: type: string caption: type: string credit: type: string type: type: string url: type: string height: type: integer width: type: integer legacy: type: object properties: xlarge: type: string xlargewidth: type: integer xlargeheight: type: integer crop_name: type: string Person: type: object properties: firstname: type: string middlename: type: string lastname: type: string qualifier: type: string title: type: string role: type: string organization: type: string rank: type: integer securityDefinitions: apikey: type: apiKey name: api-key in: query