News · head-to-head
New York Times vs Spaceflight News
The NYT Developer Network exposes ten separate APIs (Article Search, Top Stories, Books, Most Popular, and more) over a shared API-key scheme, all returning JSON. Registration and usage are completely free, but the terms restrict every API to non-commercial projects only — selling access, running ads, or shipping the data inside a paid product all require a separate licensing deal through NYT Licensing.
Spaceflight News API is a free, keyless aggregator of space and astronomy news, articles, blogs, and reports pulled from NASA, ESA, and dozens of other spaceflight outlets, currently indexing more than 35,000 articles. The v4 API is fully open — no signup or API key needed — and returns paginated JSON with count/next/previous fields, plus a public OpenAPI/Swagger reference at its /v4/docs endpoint.
| New York Times | Spaceflight News | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | API Key | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Spaceflight News needs no API key, while New York Times requires API Key — pick Spaceflight News to start without signup.