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Web-scraping New York Times

Code for webscraping using an API on NYT articles

PURPOSE: search articles with the names 'interactive' and save number for plot and url for finding the number of comments with the Community API

BACKGROUND: How to extract APIs from NYT API explanation page: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/ Parts of the code for extraction of date from the pub_date result from http://web.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/scraping-new-york-times-articles-with-r

TO DO: Register on NYT for API number

OUTPUT: Plot with number of articles over time plus with number of comments for two searches