NewsAPI is a powerful tool for accessing live and historic news articles from worldwide sources. With its simple RESTful interface, you can harness the flow of information for content aggregation, media monitoring, or data analytics. Pipedream's serverless platform takes it further by allowing you to automate interactions with NewsAPI, letting you integrate news data into diverse workflows, trigger actions based on news events, or blend news with other data sources for insightful analysis.
import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
newsapi: {
type: "app",
app: "newsapi",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines`,
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.newsapi.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
},
params: {
country: `us`,
category: `business`,
apiKey: `${this.newsapi.$auth.api_key}`,
},
})
},
})
Content Curation and Social Media Automation: Use NewsAPI to fetch the latest articles on specific topics, then filter and post the most relevant content to social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook automatically. This keeps your social media feeds fresh and engaging without manual oversight.
Sentiment Analysis and Trend Tracking: Combine NewsAPI with a sentiment analysis service like Google's Natural Language API. Automatically analyze the sentiment of news content to gain insights into public opinion and emerging trends, which can inform marketing strategies or product development.
Email Digests for Targeted News Updates: Set up a workflow that collects top news stories related to your industry from NewsAPI, formats them into a digest, and sends out an email through SendGrid or a similar email service. Keep your team informed with the latest developments directly in their inbox.
NewsAPI uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your NewsAPI account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to NewsAPI APIs in both code and no-code steps.
Get your API key in your account settings.