Developing applications that bring value to users is a valuable asset that both companies and programmers are looking to achieve. In fact, adding value to the end-user will increase the lifetime value of an application and create a long-term value-driven relationship between users and software creators.
One of the ways this value can be created is by providing end-users with high-quality data. Indeed, collecting data is becoming a more reachable goal thanks to Application Programming Interfaces. In this tutorial, we will cover the main functionalities, benefits, and use cases of the Breaking News API. In addition, this article will cover everything you need to know to get up and running with the Breaking News API and its various implementations.
The Breaking News Application Programming Interface allows programmers to retrieve real-time business news, company information, and financial data from across the globe.
The Breaking News API provides an interface that allows company news feed retrieval across different news sources. In addition, this API gives the developer access to any company news that can help in stock price prediction and financial data analysis. Last but not least, this API provides the ability to collect any publicly-traded company data by using the company stock symbols known as the ticker symbols.
The main operations of the API follow the normal procedural of an API workflow. To explain, to get any breaking news data, a simple GET request will be more than enough to retrieve this information. In other words, every single operation using this API will be a GET request that asks the server for input, either in the form of company news, financial data, or business data.
In terms of data type, all data received from the Breaking News API takes the format of a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file. This format can be processed easily and programmed with any programming language thanks to JSON reading and parsing libraries commonly found in Python, JavaScript, and other popular programming languages.
The Breaking News API will be a perfect fit for different stakeholders across different fields. The main intended users are business users who have a direct interest in business information. For instance, the following users can be considered the Breaking News API intended users:
Financial Analysts: Financial analysts understand the value of company data and track changes in the financial market. To analyze a company’s performance, upcoming business news feeds are important to understand how a firm is doing in the marketplace compared to its competitors. This API is critical in also predicting company stock performance as most stock price increases or decreases are related to company news. In addition, financial analysts build models that are directly affected by company changes in terms of product, research, and investment. To explain, these variables are disclosed in the daily news companies publish, and this API is a perfect tool to keep track of these changes.
Day Traders: Company news is critical to understand company performance. Most day traders will follow an investment strategy that is based on daily events or company news. Having an API that provides real-time business news is valuable in making a timely investment decision for day-to-day traders. Moreover, algorithmic trading is a common practice in the world of day trading. Indeed, these practices are more accurate and profitable to traders if real-time company news is accessible. The Breaking News API is a perfect tool to make this data accessible.
Business Researchers: In academic research, companies use cases to understand business theories or uncover new research questions. Many business researchers seek company data and business news to test different theories based on business changes companies face. To explain, having a dataset of company news for a specific period can be valuable in analyzing how the news would affect the company in terms of public perception, financial performance, or even understand new customer behaviors based on business news.
This API is a valuable tool in building business applications that can read, analyze, and process real-time business data to provide end-users with insight into companies and their financial situation.
The following is a step-by-step tutorial that will help you get up and running with the Breaking News API using the RapidAPI platform and code examples:
Initially, you will need to create an account in the RapidAPI platform. This step can be done using your email, password, and username. Additionally, Google, GitHub, and Facebook signups can also be used for quick registration.
The next step is to find the Breaking News API in the API marketplace by searching for this API using Breaking News. This search query will display a list of APIs, one of which is our API, the Breaking News, which can then be selected from the results list.
Once selected, the Breaking News API can be tested on the platform by clicking on the different endpoints and inspecting the provided documentation. In addition, every endpoint comes with a code example in various programming languages and implementations. One of the strategies you can follow is to copy the code example and paste it into your Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or favorite code editor to test it live on your machine.
The following are the different code examples in the Breaking News API covered in Python, PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript.
Make sure you have the needed Python environment variables installed in your system. Using the latest Python version is recommended to avoid any old version dependency issues.
import requests
url = "https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/GetTopNews"
headers = {
'x-rapidapi-key': " xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
'x-rapidapi-host': "myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com"
}
response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)
import requests
url = "https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/news/cnn"
headers = {
'x-rapidapi-key': " xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
'x-rapidapi-host': "myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com"
}
response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)
print(response.text) import requests
url = "https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/GetCompanyDetailsBySymbol"
querystring = {"symbol":"twtr"}
headers = {
'x-rapidapi-key': " xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
'x-rapidapi-host': "myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com"
}
response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, params=querystring)
print(response.text) In this section, we will test the Breaking News API within the PHP framework. Keep in mind that you must have all the needed installation and dependencies required to run PHP on your machine. It is also recommended to have the latest version of PHP to avoid any version-related errors.
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/GetTopNews",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"x-rapidapi-host: myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com",
"x-rapidapi-key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
} <?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/news/cnn",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"x-rapidapi-host: myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com",
"x-rapidapi-key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
} <?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/GetCompanyDetailsBySymbol?symbol=twtr",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"x-rapidapi-host: myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com",
"x-rapidapi-key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
} Make sure you have Ruby installed in your system to test the following sample code. Keep in mind that the installation can be done by following the official Ruby documentation to avoid any installation errors.
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
url = URI("https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/GetTopNews")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-rapidapi-key"] = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
request["x-rapidapi-host"] = 'myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
url = URI("https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/news/cnn")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-rapidapi-key"] = ' xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
request["x-rapidapi-host"] = 'myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
url = URI("https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/GetCompanyDetailsBySymbol?symbol=twtr")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-rapidapi-key"] = ' xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
request["x-rapidapi-host"] = 'myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body Make sure you have the needed JavaScript environment variables are installed in your system. Once done, the code can be written in your favorite code editor and executed in your browser.
const settings = {
"async": true,
"crossDomain": true,
"url": "https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/GetTopNews",
"method": "GET",
"headers": {
"x-rapidapi-key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"x-rapidapi-host": "myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com"
}
};
$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
console.log(response);
}); const settings = {
"async": true,
"crossDomain": true,
"url": "https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/news/cnn",
"method": "GET",
"headers": {
"x-rapidapi-key": " xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"x-rapidapi-host": "myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com"
}
};
$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
console.log(response);
}); const settings = {
"async": true,
"crossDomain": true,
"url": "https://myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com/GetCompanyDetailsBySymbol?symbol=twtr",
"method": "GET",
"headers": {
"x-rapidapi-key": " xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"x-rapidapi-host": "myallies-breaking-news-v1.p.rapidapi.com"
}
};
$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
console.log(response);
}); The Breaking News API can be accessed via 3 main endpoints that can be outlined as follows:
Real-time News Feed: This endpoint allows users to collect real-time company news feed sorted by the latest. To explain, this endpoint will return a news identifier that will encapsulate the news article data. Indeed, this data will include the company stock symbol, logo URL path, company name, news source URL, and news title. The information will be displayed with the latest news denoted as the first element in the dataset until the last element.
Company News: This endpoint allows the user to collect company news using the company symbol as an input variable. To explain, this endpoint returns news related to a company based on the business news feed returned by the Breaking News API. However, this feed will be filtered only to include the company of your choice using the stock symbol of that firm.
Company Details By Symbol: This endpoint allows users to get the company information related to the stock market. To explain, the returned values are stock identifier, last traded price, percentage change, and company full name. First, the stock identifier is a value used to identify different stocks in the news feed. Next, the last traded price or the latest recorded price of the stock returned by the API. The percentage change looks at the price change based on the latest traded price. The price can either be a percentage increase or decrease depending on the market trend in this variable. Last but not least, the full company name will be returned as part of the returned data.
The Breaking News API brings to the table a set of benefits that help programmers, business owners, and researchers save time and innovate in terms of application creation and data analysis. To explain, one of the main by-products of using the Breaking News API is the ability of this API to provide real-time news across the globe covering various companies, sectors, and industries. Indeed, this benefit allows the API users to access various company news without having to do the research manually and collecting the data using search engines or news websites.
The Breaking News API provides consistent data of a given sector or set of companies by simply using the company stock symbol. To explain, the Breaking News API provides intuitive endpoints that allow users to get the company details using stock market symbols easily. This ability allows scalability in data collection as the API can be used to simultaneously extract news data from different sectors, companies, or countries using company stock symbols. To sum up, the Breaking News API can save programmers time and resources as it provides quick and easy access to company details that would be hard to get using traditional manual methods.
The Breaking News API comes with a by-product that can create a set of tools and projects. Having access to business news from around the globe opens the door for various machine learning projects. To explain, the data collected from the Breaking News API are considered text data that is valuable in natural language processing projects. These projects take text data and use it as input for different machine learning models. One of the main use cases of the Breaking News API is company news to implement a machine learning model that will perform a sentiment analysis on the different events and news firms face.
A major use case would be implementing a tool that allows companies to understand consumer perception changes based on the day-to-day company news. This can be valuable in helping companies keep a protected company reputation and control the narrative in terms of brand image and company public perception. Indeed, thanks to sentiment analysis and the various AI and natural language processing advancements, these tools can easily be developed and implemented using the Breaking News API.
RapidAPI offers a list of different news collection APIs. These APIs can be an alternative to the Breaking News API. The following is a list that includes some of these APIs:
The Breaking News API brings a lot of value in collecting high-quality real-time business news encapsulating stock market changes, company events, and financial data. This article covers the Breaking News API using different programming languages and its main benefits and stakeholders.
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