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NewscastAPI is a web service to provide news for a given word from various sources.
The API provides the following data for each news article,
- Headline
- Source
- url to the article
- published timestamp
- category
- country
Applications: Tracking sentiment of a specific person in news, searching for buzz words, etc.
I was working on a personal project to track sentiment of a given word across news articles and tweets hence I wanted an API to fetch all the news headlines a given word.
Luckily, I found quite a lot of alternatives which provided the exact service, but all of them were either expensive or had a lot of restrictions for its usage. So I thought of building something which does the job at an acceptable performance.
- 0.1.0
- ADD: Google news crawler, Endpoint to access news.
When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue or email.
- Implement crawlers for new sites