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Chronicling America Pages API

Endpoints for retrieving individual newspaper page metadata and content.

Chronicling America Pages API is one of 6 APIs that Chronicling America publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Pages. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.

2 operations 2 paths 3 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Pages 2

Endpoints for retrieving individual newspaper page metadata and content.

GET
/titles/{lccn}/issues/{date}/ed-{edition}/seq-{sequence}.json
Get a specific newspaper page
getPage 4 params → 200404
GET
/titles/{lccn}/issues/{date}/ed-{edition}/seq-{sequence}/ocr.txt
Get OCR text for a newspaper page
getPageOcrText 4 params → 200404

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are PageDetail (12 properties), TitleSummary (8 properties), IssueSummary (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

IssueSummary
object
Summary of a single newspaper issue.
2 properties
PageDetail
object
Detailed metadata for a single newspaper page.
12 properties
TitleSummary
object
Summary record for a newspaper title.
8 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

chroniclingamerica-pages-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Chronicling America publishes across the network.

Chronicling America Batches API
Chronicling America Issues API
Chronicling America OCR API
Chronicling America Search API
Chronicling America Titles API
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