Final Application
Explore how to build a Django application that integrates News API endpoints to fetch and display live news articles. Learn how to handle user input and use parameters like language, country, and category for dynamic searches.
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Let’s now look at a Django application that uses some of the News API endpoints to retrieve the requested articles.
Resources used
We’ll use the everything and the top-headlines endpoints in this application. The language and sortBy parameters will be used with the everything endpoint, whereas country and category parameters will be used with the top-headlines endpoint.
Live demo
The widget below contains the code for our application. Click the “Run” button to run the application.
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Let’s look at the code in views.py, where the API is being called:
- The data entered by the user is retrieved in lines 9 to 12.
- Depending on whether
everythingortop-headlineshas been selected, theurlon line 18 or line 21 will be selected. - We finally make the API call on line 23 and save the response in the
responsevariable. - This data is saved in the
contextvariable and returned on line 43. It is displayed using theindex.htmlfile.
You can use this application to search the news for a specific country or category. All the news will be retrieved using News API.