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newsapi
This weekend, I tripped over a neat news REST-ful api called newsapi. Grab an API key and you’re off to the races.
There are tons of live headlines - News API can provide headlines from 70 worldwide sources.
There are basically two api endpoints:
Register for an account and generate an api-key and let’s get started.
Accessing the API with Python
newsapi can easily be accessed using a browser since the REST-ful method used is a GET method. But, accessing the api from the browser is limiting.
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