py-mediastack

An unofficial python helper package to interact with the mediastack API.

Drawbacks

• No historical Data (I don't have a paid account to test it)
• No News Sources search (I don't have time to implement it)

Feel free to contribute. Make sure that you use the pre-commit hooks.

What can it do ?

It can give you live news updated.

Installation

pip3 install py-mediastack

Usage

Get the api key from here

from mediastack import MediaStack
client = MediaStack("<your-api-key>")

resp = client.get_live_news()

print(resp.pagination)
print(resp.data[0])

Pagination(limit=25, offset=0, count=25, total=10000)

Article(author='Redazione', title='Via agli incontri di quartiere:
primo appuntamento con i residenti di San Lorenzo',
description='Hanno preso il via ieri sera, dalla sala Biasin dove l’Amministrazione ha convocato i residenti del quartiere San Lorenzo, gli ‘Incontri di quartiere’ con cui la Giunta si confronta con i cittadini. Presenti, oltre al Sindaco Gian Francesco Menani, il vicesindaco Camilla Nizzoli e gli assessori Corrado Ruini e Massimo Malagoli, che hanno ascoltato le […]',
url='https://www.bologna2000.com/2021/09/07/via-agli-incontri-di-quartiere-primo-appuntamento-con-i-residenti-di-san-lorenzo/',
image=None,
category='general',
language='it',
 country='it',
 published_at='2021-09-07T08:32:52+00:00',
 source='bologna2000')

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The parameters for MediaStack.get_live_news are as follow:

• sources: Optional[list[str]] -> Use this parameter to include or exclude one or multiple news sources. Example: To include CNN, but exclude BBC: sources=["cnn", "-bbc"]

• categories: Optional[list[str]] Use this parameter to include or exclude one or multiple news categories. Example: To include business, but exclude sports: categories=["business", "-sports"].

• countries: Optional[list[str]] -> Use this parameter to include or exclude one or multiple countries. Example: To include Australia, but exclude the US: countries=["au", "-us"].

• languages: Optional[list[str]] -> Use this parameter to include or exclude one or multiple languages. Example: To include English, but exclude German: languages=["en", "-de"].

• keywords: Optional[str] -> Use this parameter to search for sentences, you can also exclude words that you do not want to appear in your search results. Example: To search for "New movies 2021" but exclude "Matrix": keywords='new movies 2021 -matrix'

• date: Optional[str] -> Use this parameter to specify a date or date range. Example: date=2020-01-01 for news on Jan 1st and date='2020-12-24,2020-12-31' for news between Dec 24th and 31st.

• sort: Optional[str] -> Use this parameter to specify a sorting order. Available values: published_desc (default), published_asc, popularity

• limit: Optional[int] -> Use this parameter to specify a pagination limit (number of results per page) for your API request. Default limit value is 25, maximum allowed limit value is 100.

• offset: Optional[int] -> Use this parameter to specify a pagination offset value for your API request. Example: An offset value of 100 combined with a limit value of 10 would show results 100-110. Default value is 0, starting with the first available result.

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The get_live_news methods returns a LiveNewsResponse data class. It contains the pagination details and the data.

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The LiveNewsResponse.pagination is of type Pagination and has the following attributes.

• Pagination.limit -> your pagination limit value.
• Pagination.offset -> your pagination offset value.
• Pagination.count -> the results count on the current page.
• Pagination.total -> the total count of results available.

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The LiveNewsResponse.data is a list[Article] and each Article has the following attributes.

• Article.author -> the name of the author of the given news article.
• Article.title -> the title text of the given news article.
• Article.description -> the description text of the given news article.
• Article.url - > the URL leading to the given news article.
• Article.image -> an image URL associated with the given news article.
• Article.category -> the category associated with the given news article.
• Article.language -> the language the given news article is in.
• Article.country -> the country code associated with the given news article.
• Article.published_at -> the exact time stamp the given news article was published.
• Article.source -> the source from which the article was taken

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Supported News Categories

• general - Uncategorized News
• business - Business News
• entertainment - Entertainment News
• health - Health News
• science - Science News
• sports - Sports News
• technology - Technology News

Supported Countries

Click Here to see the list of all the supported countries.

Supported Languages

• ar - Arabic
• de - German
• en - English
• es - Spanish
• fr - French
• he - Hebrew
• it - Italian
• nl - Dutch
• no - Norwegian
• pt - Portuguese
• ru - Russian
• se - Swedish
• zh - Chinese

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Most of the docs are directly taken from the mediastacks api docs