# Archive API

**Provider:** Archive
**Category:** storage
**Base URL:** `http://api.nytimes.com/svc/archive/v1`
**Auth:** api-key — `GET /endpoint?api-key=YOUR_KEY`
**Rate Limit:** Not officially published
**Free Tier:** Yes — available
**Pricing:** Enterprise / contact sales (subscription)
**Docs:** http://api.nytimes.com/svc/archive/v1

## Description

The Archive API provides lists of NYT articles by month going back to 1851.  You can use it to build your own local database of NYT article metadata.

## Endpoints

| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|--------|----------|-------------|
| GET | `http://api.nytimes.com/svc/archive/v1/{year}/{month}.json` | Archive API |

## Authentication

API key as a query parameter (api-key)

```
GET /endpoint?api-key=YOUR_KEY
```

## Sample Request

```bash
curl -X GET 'http://api.nytimes.com/svc/archive/v1/{year}/{month}.json' \
  -H 'GET /endpoint?api-key=YOUR_KEY'
```

## Sample Response

```json
{}
```

## Pricing Details

Free and open. Internet Archive Wayback Machine API; no paid tiers.

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