Specrom News API

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Search & analyze the latest news articles from 100,000+ domains worldwide using our News API.

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A single easy to use API that can lets you search over 100,000 news sources by keyword, location (city, state, country), geolocation (latitude, longitude) and time range.

We provide fulltext and raw web source (html) of the news story itself in addition to description, title image urls etc.

All our plans include advanced text analytics such as overall sentiments, aspect based sentiments analysis, text summarization, email address extraction, and topic classification.

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Our News API is backed by a 60 node distributed web crawler that fetches over 10 TB of data a week

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Documentation

• Documentation Overview (Link): The main page for all API documentation, providing an overview of the available features and endpoints.

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News API Reference: This section includes endpoints for searching and retrieving news articles based on various criteria such as keywords, locations, and coordinates. (More Info)

• Simple News Search: fetch latest news within past 24h with full_text content.

• Get News Headlines By Keyword Search: Instructions on retrieving news headlines using specific keywords.

• Get Latest News By City, State, Country: Fetch the latest news articles based on specified geographic regions.

• Get Latest News By Latitude, Longitude: Get near real time news articles published in local newspapers and other media outlets by specifying a geolocation coordinates (latitude, longitude).

• Fetch Parsed News Article By url_id: A Specrom News API endpoint for fetching the full_text, title, author, main image etc. from the news article using url_id as input.

• Fetch Parsed News Article By URL: Instructions for fetching a parsed news article directly from its URL.

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Text Analytics API Reference: Provides endpoints for various text analytics functions, enhancing the ability to analyze and interpret text data. (Link)

The new generation of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT3, GPT4, and ChatGPT/GPT 3.5 have revolutionalized the way we analyze text data.

Out base level text classification endpoint includes few dozen topic labels; however if you are interested a more granular text classifier that contains IAB/IPTC + custom taxonomy) that contains over 1900 topics, please email us at info@specrom.com

Our comprehensive text analytics endpoints uses the latest GPT-J and/or GPT3.5/GPT4 models on the back end to analyze all aspects of the news articles.

• Text Language Detection: Detect the language of a given text using the API.

• Named Entity Extraction: Extract named entities such as people, organizations, and locations from text.

• Text Summarization: Summarize large blocks of text into concise summaries.

• Text Classification: Input the headline or meta description of a news article and to generate a topic tag using a text classifier.

• Classify News Articles Using Smart Labels: A Specrom News API endpoint for labeling common types of articles seen on news websites

• Aspect Based Sentiments Analysis: Perform sentiment analysis on specific aspects within a text.

• Document Sentiments Score: Obtain an overall sentiment score for a document.

• Keyword or Keyphrase Extraction: Extract important keywords and keyphrases from text.

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Technology Analysis API Reference: Analyze the technology stack of websites. (Link)

Technology researchers and people who are interested in technology trends on a larger scale are target users for these API endpoints.

Are you looking to answer questions such as these?

Which is the most common web technologies powering a news website in Atlanta, GA area?

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Which technologies are being used by niche news blogs that focus on cryptocurrency or bitcoin?

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What proportion of technology news outlets themselves are running vulnerable or outdated versions of wordpress to power their own websites?"

You build your own technology database like buildwith.com by roughly using the workflow below:

• Using keywords and source_url as input, you can search for latest news articles using either simple news search or Get news headlines by keyword search

• Alternately, you can get geography based news articles by searching for news using Get Latest News By City, State, Country
  or getting news by geolocation i.e. latitude & longitude

• If you only have url_id than use one of our endpoints to get the URL and full_text of the news articles

• Using the URL as input, use the buildwith endpoint below to get all the technologies that power the particular webpage.

  • Built With Analyzer: Determine the technologies used to build a website.

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Social Media & Email Addresses API Reference: Extract social media handles and email addresses from web pages. (Link)

These group of endpoints are of particular interest to users working in PR & outreach, content marketing tec.

You build your own journalist database by roughly using the workflow below:

• Using keywords and source_url as input, you can search for latest news articles using either simple news search or Get news headlines by keyword search

• Alternately, you can get geography based news articles by searching for news using Get Latest News By City, State, Country
  or getting news by geolocation i.e. latitude & longitude

• If you only have url_id than use one of our endpoints to get the URL and full_text of the news articles

• Using the URL as input, try out the following endpoints that can extract email addresses, names and social media handles

  • Extract All Social Media Handles & URLs: Extract social media handles and URLs from a given webpage.

  • Extract Name and Spam Score For Each Email Address: Retrieve names and spam scores for email addresses found on a webpage.

  • Extract Email Address By URL: Extract email addresses directly from a specified URL.

For more detailed information, visit the Specrom News API Documentation.