Code for REST APIs at IEEE's MOOC Presentation

get_news.py

# Import the two libraries needed for our task: json and requests
import json
import requests
# If requests isn't installed , open up terminal/command line and run `$ pip install requests`
# pip comes pre-installed from Python 2.7 onwards

# We're storing files in the current directory, change as necessary
file = './source-'

# We have to pass some parameters along with our GET request
queries = {}
# Get your unique authentication apiKey at https://newsapi.org/register
# The following apiKey will not work.
queries['apiKey'] = 'e4 ... a6'
# The query topic - you can replace it with whatever topic you wish to query
queries['q'] = 'Donald Trump'
# You can look at more parameters to fine-tune your query at https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/everything


# List of sources I got from https://newsapi.org/sources
sources = ['breitbart-news','cnn','fox-news','msnbc','the-new-york-times','the-washington-post']

# Running a loop to cover all sources, and create unique output files for all of them
for source in sources:
    queries['sources'] = source
    # Read more at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16877422
    response = requests.get('https://newsapi.org/v2/everything', params=queries)
    # We're reading the data in a json format
    # Read more about JSON at https://www.json.org/
    data = json.loads(response.text)
    # We're writing the data into a json file
    with open(file+source+'.json','a+') as f:
        json.dump(data,f)