Library of Congress

Chronicling America API

The Chronicling America API provides access to the historic American newspapers collection digitized by the Library of Congress and its partners. Endpoints allow searching and retrieving pages, titles, batches, and OCR text. No authentication is required.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: Chronicling America API
description: The Chronicling America API provides access to the historic American newspapers collection
  digitized by the Library of Congress and its partners. Endpoints allow searching and retrieving pages,
  titles, batches, and OCR text. No authentication is required.
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
baseURL: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
tags:
- Newspapers
- Historical
- Digitized
- Search
- OCR
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
contact:
- FN: Library of Congress
  url: https://www.loc.gov/about/contact-us/