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Chronicling America

Search millions of digitized historic US newspaper pages

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The Library of Congress serves its Chronicling America collection of historic American newspapers as JSON through the loc.gov API. Search by keyword, place or date to retrieve page-level records with titles, dates and image links.

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Uptime history
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Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/?fo=json&c=1&at=results

{
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "The monitor (Omaha, Neb.), July 3, 1915",
      "date": "1915-07-03",
      "contributor": [
        "university of nebraska-lincoln libraries, lincoln, ne"
      ],
      "subject": [
        "nebraska",
        "douglas",
        "united states",
        "omaha"
      ],
      "digitized": true,
      "language": [
        "english"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/?fo=json&c=1&at=results"
const res = await fetch("https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/?fo=json&c=1&at=results");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/?fo=json&c=1&at=results")
print(res.json())

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Search millions of digitized historic US newspaper pages

GET/collections

Collections — documented GET route.

GET/collections/1

Collections details by ID (example: 1).

GET/collections?limit=10

Collections — documented GET route.

GET/collections/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/collections/chronicling-america/?limit=5

Chronicling America — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Chronicling America: common questions

Is Chronicling America free to use?

Yes — Chronicling America is a free open data API. Free tier: Free — public-domain collection data. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does Chronicling America need an API key?

No — Chronicling America needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (LoC throttles heavy crawling (see LoC API policy)).

Can I call Chronicling America from the browser?

Not directly — Chronicling America doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is Chronicling America up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Chronicling America is dead. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.