Facebook: search for “title” gift - the first article will be a gift link if one has been posted publicly; non-gift articles may appear as well in the results.
𝕏itter: Pull out the last part of the URL. For example, if the URL is:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/climate/coral-reefs-heat-stress-bleaching.html
you would pull out
coral-reefs-heat-stress-bleaching
Then search for
“<last part of URL before .html” nytimes.com
In this case:
“coral-reefs-heat-stress-bleaching” nytimes.com
Then scroll down and look for articles with a preview showing “gift article” in the top right
For newsletters, also search for messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com and scan through the Latest results.
BlueSky: Load this gift link feed, scroll down to before the article’s publication, then use control-F or ⌘-F (on a mac) to search for it
Mastodon: Use control-F or ⌘-F to search this page
web.archive.org: Look up the non-gift URL on web.archive.org, then click the URLs tab and see if a gift link has been archived. It will contain the string “unlocked_article_code” if it has.
I appreciate the research you’ve put into this, kind sir or ma’am.
Thanks
𝕏itter has stopped fully indexing article titles, or the “gift article” text in the title, so I’ve updated the instructions here for that platform.
