peterldowns / nyt-frontpage-api

An API for downloading frontpages from the New York Times.

The New York Times Frontpage API

A small library to retrieve cover pages of the New York Times as images. Turns out the NYT hosts them and they're all just sitting there. Who would have thought?

Usage

Here's an example, runnable from the included demo.py file:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8
import sys
from datetime import date

import nytfrontpage


if __name__ == '__main__':
  today = date.today()
  print 'Fetching image contents...'
  image_contents = nytfrontpage.get_image_data(today)
  if image_contents:
    with open('frontpage.jpg', 'w') as f:
      f.write(image_contents)
    print 'Successfully downloaded the frontpage.'
  else:
    print 'The frontpage image has not been posted yet.'

$ ./demo.py
$ open frontpage.jpg