This tool for The Times and Sunday Times shows information about articles on the website (thetimes.co.uk) including their IDs
The Times Content Inspector Extension
Times articles have UUIDs and other information that is difficult to extract from the article on the page without an extension like this. This reads the content of the article's code, and finds the relevant information for its UUID, apple news commands, and other such information. You can then click on the extension to open it and see this data.
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Source Manifest.json
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