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New York Times APIs - Why just read the news when you can hack it?

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I'm impressed with NYT's willingness to experiment. Maybe we could do a Product Hunt + NYT API mashup. We're organizing a hackathon (details TBD) so maybe someone will do something then. :)
I'll try and do a hack later this week/wkd, have a cool idea for the integration :)
Ooh! As the person that made sure to get the NYT API team at the TCD hackathons I would love to help facilitate this peanut butter and chocolate combo. I'm going to make sure they see this and LMK if I can help in any way!
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Being part of a Product Hunt hackathon would be great. We're always trying to spread the word about our APIs and we'd love to help out however we can.
that would be awesome. and I will be in touch! :)
Campaign finance API could be fun.
I'm very impressed by the quality of side products launched by the NYT recently - from NYT Now to the beta cooking site.
The cooking site especially. As a young single guy, it's one of my top-visited sites. I use it several times a week.
sp do I! I love this platform. I can't wait for a mobile app.
Same! I'd us an iPad app every night, probably.
Chris this is very very interesting. Can you ping you offline to understand a bit more?
sure! Shoot me a message on Twitter at
One of the best APIs ever available. Great ideas could come up from this, bravo, New York Times!
If only the Netflix API wasn't shutting down () it would be awesome to combine the NYT Movie reviews () with movies that are available on Netflix Instant.
Glad to see that they are testing new business models using their APIs as a way to experiment with new third party integrations
Love this.
this is indeed awesome. i want to point out (as a h/t to the gray lady, i suppose) that these APIs have been available for years. our team used the campaign finance API when building Super PAC App back in 2012. was the go-to dude for the API back then...
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Yup, you're right -- some of our APIs have been public since 2008! Derek is still around and responsible for our political APIs, though he's much busier these days, being a major contributor to The Upshot () and all.
Perfect for a Yo service.
The NYT (along with the Guardian) is one of the most digitally innovative legacy newsrooms around. They have an amazing range of historical data, from campaign finance, to recipes to movie reviews (it's amazing to read the original review of The Godfather, for example). Also neat is Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, who headed the digital report and is now senior editor for strategy in the newsroom.
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