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Chronicling America

Search millions of digitized historic US newspaper pages

📚 Open DataUNMONITORED
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ?HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓

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.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
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())
Endpoints · 6On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /collections/chronicling-america/?fo=json&c=1&at=results awaits first probe
GET/collections/chronicling-america/?fo=json&c=1&at=resultsPROBED

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

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

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?

Yes — Chronicling America returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Chronicling America up right now?

Chronicling America is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.