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Founded in 1851 – original price one cent

Largest metro newspaper in the U.S.

101 Pulitzer Prizes

11 national bureaus and 26 foreign bureaus

1904 - moved to Long Acre Square

That’s us!

Core Purpose

Core Purpose

Enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high quality news, information and entertainment.

APIs

APIsNY State Legislaturemember and committee info.

Times TagsNYT standardized terms

TimesPeopleprofile and activity data

Movie Reviews reviews, summaries, critics’ picks

Campaign Financecampaign contribution & expenditure data

Congressional Votesvoting and member info.

Article Search1981 to now, facets, metadata

TimesWireup-to-the-minute links and metadata

Real Estateaggregate listings and sales data

Communityuser-generated comments

Bestsellersrankings, lists, reviews

http://developer.nytimes.com

http://open.nytimes.com

Let’s Build Something

Grab a TimesPeople user’s network recommendations and sync them to InstaPaper

TimesPeople

TimesPeople

TimesPeople

TimesPeople

Goal

Grab my network’s recommendations and sync them to InstaPaper

TimesPeople API

Retrieve Users – Profile– Activities– Newsfeed– Followers– Following

User Lookup MD5 hash of e-

mail

User Lookup

http://api.nytimes.com/svc/timespeople/api/v1/user/2eaf32ad1f520768c2ff97c9689fb94c/id.xml?api-key=####

Get the User’s Newsfeed

http://api.nytimes.com/svc/timespeople/api/v1/user/52396025/newsfeed.xml?api-key=####

YQL

YQL for User Lookup

insert into yql.storage.admin (value) values ('foo');

YQL for User’s Newsfeed

YQL for InstaPaper

On to the Code…

Execute YQL

Lookup User ID

Get Newsfeed

Filter, Uniq, Count & Sort Recommendations

Insert Into InstaPaper

Big Slide of Code - Review

Resources

Code - http://github.com/derekg/ TimesPeople-InstaPaper-Sync

Demo - http://tp-ip-sync.appspot.com

More Coding Fun

Article Search API Facets: The Hidden Secret

NYT Article Trender

APIsNY State Legislaturemember and committee info.

Times TagsNYT standardized terms

TimesPeopleprofile and activity data

Movie Reviews reviews, summaries, critics’ picks

Campaign Financecampaign contribution & expenditure data

Congressional Votesvoting and member info.

Article Search1981 to now, facets, metadata

TimesWireup-to-the-minute links and metadata

Real Estateaggregate listings and sales data

Communityuser-generated comments

Bestsellersrankings, lists, reviews

And now for the totally useless

And now for the totally useless MJ + News

And now for the totally useless MJ + News

Echo Nest API + TimesWire API + Code=

The Worst Podcast Ever

The APIs http://developer.nytimes.com

The blog http://open.nytimes.com