Jan Povala jp2011

How to use The Guardian's API to download article data for content analysis (in Python 3.x)

The Guardian offers an API as deep and robust as the New York Times Article API when it comes to content analysis.

The Guardian's API offers more than "1.7 million pieces of content", with published items as far back as 1999. You can register as a developer here, which gets you 5,000 API hits a day and an API key that looks something like this:

zzzyyyyy-9a9z-999z-z999-9e8a83922516

The Guardian has a handy interactive explorer to interactively tweak the query parameters.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

	;; Adapted following script to OSX:
	;; https://genomeek.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/emarch-2-create-a-pdf-with-highlighted-code-source/
	(defun print-to-pdf ()
	(interactive)
	(ps-spool-buffer-with-faces)
	(switch-to-buffer "PostScript")
	(write-file "tmp.ps")
	(kill-buffer "tmp.ps")
	(setq cmd (concat "pstopdf tmp.ps -o " (buffer-name) ".pdf"))
	(shell-command cmd)