Verified Sourcepaths · REST API

Library of Congress item JSON (Chronicling America title)

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Publisher

Library of Congress

Human landing

https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/

Artifact URL

https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83030214/?fo=json

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Auth

none recorded

Rate limit

LOC JSON representations; 20 requests per minute, with a 1-hour block on breach. Cloudflare bot challenges appear on some legacy chroniclingamerica.loc.gov paths.

Evidence

cultural-heritage · newspapers · open-government

Publisher identity: Library of Congress Artifact relationship: official domain Automated access: plain GET succeeded Integrity hash: 14aebc9a6b2d… Parseability: valid Effects: read Licensing: Library of Congress terms; newspaper page images are not the artifact. Freshness: Sep 17, 2026, 7:10 PM PDT

Notes

Research listed chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/. That path 404s. This row measures a live LOC JSON item for a Chronicling America title (New-York tribune, LCCN sn83030214).

Tasks this artifact can answer

• fetch Library of Congress bibliographic JSON for a newspaper title
• read Chronicling America metadata without scraping HTML

Change history

• healthySep 17, 2026, 7:10 PM PDT · HTTP 200
• healthySep 17, 2026, 7:03 PM PDT · HTTP 200
• healthySep 17, 2026, 6:57 PM PDT · HTTP 200
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• healthySep 17, 2026, 5:06 PM PDT · HTTP 200