Nyt MCP server

@pipeworx/nyt

New York Times Developer APIs: article search, top stories by section, bestseller lists and movie reviews, as headlines, abstracts, bylines and nytimes.com URLs.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1679+ live data sources.

Tools

articles (Article Search API); 10 results per page, newest first by default. Exposed on the gateway as nytsearcharticles (eight packs export a search_articles; the bare name is ambiguous).

• searcharticles(query, page?, begindate?, sort?) — full-text search of NYT

(home, world, business, technology, science, health, sports, arts, …).

• top_stories(section?) — the current top stories for a section

(hardcover-fiction, hardcover-nonfiction, combined-print-and-e-book-fiction, …): rank, title, author, publisher, weeks on list.

• books_bestsellers(list?) — the current bestseller list by list name

filtered to Critics' Picks.

• moviereviews(query?, criticspick?) — NYT movie reviews, optionally

Auth

Platform key (PLATFORMNYTKEY) with BYO override via _apiKey. The key is sent as the api-key query parameter. Upstream limits per API (portal FAQ #11): 500 requests per day and 5 requests per minute; the pack has no backoff, so a tight agent loop can hit the per-minute ceiling.

Licence terms (read 2026-09-14, fleet #1977; resolved 2026-09-15, fleet #1980)

The NYT API Terms of Use are non-commercial only, and the portal FAQ defines "commercial" to include "using our content inside an application that is paid or has a paid tier currently or in the future". They also forbid providing "archived or cached data sets containing Content to another person or entity" and cap any caching at 24 hours; the Branding guide requires the attribution "Data provided by The New York Times" (or the Times API logo) wherever the content is displayed, and unmodified headlines and links. The verbatim clauses, the bucket verdict and the traffic numbers are in docs/data/vendor-tos-audit.md (addendum 2026-09-14). Do not add a mirror or ingest of NYT content, and do not re-read the terms: the portal page is a JS shell, the text is served by /portals/api/sites/nyt-apigeex-prd-devportal/liveportal/page/terms.

Resolved 2026-09-15: Bruce chose zero-rate-attribute over asking NYT Licensing for written permission. The gateway pack entry carries zeroRated: true (0 credits, no pricing-v2 bracket advance) and every tool response carries an attribution field — "Data provided by The New York Times (developer.nytimes.com). Non-commercial use only under the NYT Developer Terms of Use; Pipeworx charges nothing for this data." This is good faith, not compliance: NYT's FAQ still calls a paid-tier app commercial, and §1(e)(v) still requires written permission to share access "whether for direct commercial or monetary gain or otherwise". Same posture already accepted for guardian/last-fm/watchmode/acled on 2026-08-18. Do not remove either mechanism without a fresh Bruce decision.

Data sources

guide (/branding), FAQ (/faq).

• — Article Search.
• — Top Stories.
• — Books.
• — Movie Reviews.
• — portal, terms (/terms), attribution

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nyt": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nyt/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.