Nowadays, it is quite possible to reach global news on the internet. Websites such as Google News and Microsoft MSN provide their users with news from thousands of sources around the world through a single platform. They also support more than one language country. There are many REST APIs available from the market that provide developers with multiple news source data. One of them is the mediastack live and historical news API.
APIs that provide live and historic news articles enable developers and businesses to obtain last-minute and historical data from multiple sources with a single HTTP request. In this article, we will introduce mediastack API, which is the most popular news REST API today. Then we will explain how we can integrate the historical news endpoint, which is an endpoint of the mediastack API, into the Node.js programming language.Table of Contents
What Is the mediastack API?
Creating a Historical News Application
In this section, we will integrate the historical news endpoint of the mediastack API into the Node.js programming language. Firstly, we need to gain access to the mediastack API to perform an integration. For this, we will sign up for one of the affordable subscription plans offered by the mediastack. Then, after obtaining our API key on the dashboard page that opens, we can start developing our application. For this, let’s open a terminal in the file path where we will develop the application and create the Node.js project by running the command with the following default settings.npm initnpm i express requestconst express = require('express');
const app = express();
let request = require('request');
let apiKey = 'YOUR-API-KEY';
const port = 5000;
app.get('/api/historical-news', (req, res) => {
let url = `https://api.mediastack.com/v1/news?access_key=${apiKey}&date=2020-07-17`;
request(url, function (err, response, body) {
if(err){
console.log('error:', error);
} else {
console.log('body:', body);
res.json(body);
}
})
})
app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`Running at http://localhost:${port}`);
});http://localhost:5000/api/historical-news{
"pagination": {
"limit": 100,
"offset": 0,
"count": 100,
"total": 293
},
"data": [
{
"author": "CNN Staff",
"title": "This may be the big winner of the market crash",
"description": "This may be the big winner of the market crash",
"url": "http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/KwE80_jkKo8/a-sa-dd-3",
"source": "CNN",
"image": "https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150325082152-social-gfx-cnn-logo-super-169.jpg",
"category": "general",
"language": "en",
"country": "us",
"published_at": "2020-07-17T23:35:06+00:00"
},
[...]
]
}