From the sample config the normal feed url is https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml
(they maybe have more).
My first thought was to use https://username:password@rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml
but the problem here is another one. The feed is free so you need no authentication for the feed but some articles of the feed that should be displayed with ARTICLE_MORE_DETAILS
are protected. Because the article urls are extracted from the feed I have no idea how to implement this at the moment.