Newscatcher

Demo of the Newscatcher API

Search multi-language worldwide news articles published online with NewsCatcher's News API

In this demo I'm getting news articles regarding Python and Excel

Files

• newsapi.py
• requirements.txt
• config.ini
• extracted_news_articles.csv
• .gitignore

API

You have to registry for a API key to get this to work.

It is free and you do it at: newscatcherapi.com

When you have confirmed your email, you get access to your API key

You have to put your API key in the config.ini file:

[newsreader]
api_key = o1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx7wY

The config.ini file is include in .gitignore

How to run

• Clone this GitHub Repository to your local computer
• Make a new Virtual Environment in the GitHub folder - news_env
• cd into news_env
• Activate the Virtual Environment
  • .\Scripts\activate (Windows)
  • bin/activate (macOS)
• cd to the folder with the requirements.txt file
• Install the necessary modules from the requirements.txt file
  • pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Run newsapi.py

Note: Make sure that the .gitignore file include your Virtual Environment - news_env and config.ini

Links

• newscatcherapi.com
• github.com/NewscatcherAPI/newscatcherapi-sdk-python
• github.com/TueHellsternKea/newsapi