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Gain insights into using the News API with Python. Explore endpoints, integrate with a Django app, and build applications featuring current news articles.

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News API is a REST API that returns JSON search results for current and historic news articles.

This course is a hands-on guide for using News API to search and retrieve live articles over the web. This course begins with the introduction of News API. You'll learn how to set up an account on the News API platform and get the required API key. Then, you'll learn about the different endpoints and how to use them. Towards the end, you’ll explore the integration of the News API with a demo application written in Python with the Django framework. The course concludes with recommendations and resources to explore the News API further.

By the end of the course, you’ll be prepared to build personal or customer-facing web applications with up-to-date news articles using News API.

Staying Up to Date with the News API in Python

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.

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Django's command-line utility for administrative tasks."""
import os
import sys


def main():
    """Run administrative tasks."""
    os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'news_api_demo.settings')
    try:
        from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
    except ImportError as exc:
        raise ImportError(
            "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
            "available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "
            "forget to activate a virtual environment?"
        ) from exc
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()


import React from 'react';
import { shallow, configure } from 'enzyme';
import Adapter from 'enzyme-adapter-react-16';

configure({ adapter: new Adapter() });

import HelloWorld from './app';

var TestResult = function() {
    this.succeeded = false;
    this.reason = "";
    this.input = "";
    this.expected_output = "";
    this.actual_output = "";
}

export const executeTests = function() {

  var results = [];

  result = new TestResult();
  result.input = 'HelloWorld Component';
  result.expected_output = "span containing text 'Hello World'"

  let wrapper = shallow(<HelloWorld />);

  // Call your Challenge function here.

  let type = wrapper.type();
  let testSuccessful = true;
  let failureReason;

  if (type !== 'span') {
    testSuccessful = false;
    failureReason = "You need to render exactly one span HTML element";
  } else if (wrapper.props().children != "Hello World") {
     testSuccessful = false;
     failureReason = "You have rendered wrong message in your span element";
  }

  result.actual_output = wrapper.html();

  if (testSuccessful) {
    result.succeeded = true;
    result.reason = "Succeeded"
  } else {
    result.succeeded = false;
    result.reason = failureReason;
  }

  results.push(result);

  return results;
}


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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 `everything` or `top-headlines` has been selected, the `url` on **line 18** or **line 21** will be selected.
- We finally make the API call on **line 23** and save the response in the `response` variable.
- This data is saved in the `context` variable and returned on **line 43**. It is displayed using the `index.html` file.

You can use this application to search the news for a specific country or category. All the news will be retrieved using News API.

See how News API can be used in an actual application.

Introduction

Endpoints

Demo Application in Python

Conclusion

Final Application

Resources used

Live demo