io.cryptocontrol:crypto-news-api

Java Client - CryptoControl Crypto News Api

Official Java client for the CryptoControl.io API. The CryptoControl java client lets developers access rich formatted articles from crypto news sources from all around the world. It also allows developers to get access to a rich database of information (website, coin summary, blockexplorers, extra links etc..) for the top 2000 cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap.

Sprecial thanks to our contributors

• PrograMonks for pointing out a serialization issue when using with Progaurd

Installation

Add this dependency into your pom.xml file.

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.cryptocontrol</groupId>
    <artifactId>crypto-news-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.0</version>
</dependency>

or use with gradle

compile 'io.cryptocontrol:crypto-news-api:2.5.0'

Usage

First make sure that you've recieved an API key by visiting https://cryptocontrol.io/apis. With the API key, you can write the following code.

// Connect to the CryptoControl API
CryptoControlApi api = new CryptoControlApi("API_KEY");

// Connect to a self-hosted proxy server (to improve performance) that points to cryptocontrol.io
CryptoControlApi proxyApi = new CryptoControlApi("API_KEY", "http://cryptocontrol_proxy/api/v1/public");

// Enable sentiment datapoints
api.enableSentiment();

// Get top crypto news
api.getTopNews(new CryptoControlApi.OnResponseHandler<List<Article>>() {
    public void onSuccess(List<Article> body) {
        for (Article article : body) {
            System.out.println(article.getTitle());
        }
    }


    public void onFailure(Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
});

// Get latest tweets for bitcoin
api.getLatestTweetsByCoin("bitcoin", new CryptoControlApi.OnResponseHandler<List<Tweet>>() {
    @Override public void onSuccess(List<Tweet> body) {
        for (Tweet post : body) {
            System.out.println(post.getId());
        }
    }


    @Override public void onFailure(Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
});

// Get latest russian crypto news
api.getLatestNews(Language.RUSSIAN, new CryptoControlApi.OnResponseHandler<List<Article>>() {
    @Override public void onSuccess(List<Article> body) {
        for (Article article : body) {
            System.out.println(article.getTitle());
        }
    }


    @Override public void onFailure(Exception e) {

    }
});

// Get rich metadata (wallets, blockexplorers, twitter handles etc..) for ethereum
api.getCoinDetails("ethereum", new CryptoControlApi.OnResponseHandler<CoinDetail>() {
    @Override public void onSuccess(CoinDetail body) {
        System.out.println(body.getDescription());
    }


    @Override public void onFailure(Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
});

Available Functions

• getTopNews(lang?: enum) Get the top news articles.
• getLatestNews(lang?: enum) Get the latest news articles.
• getTopNewsByCategory(lang?: enum) Get news articles grouped by category.
• getTopNewsByCoin(lang?: enum, coin: String) Get the top news articles for a specific coin from the CryptoControl API.
• getLatestNewsByCoin(lang?: enum, coin: String) Get the latest news articles for a specific coin.
• getTopNewsByCoinCategory(lang?: enum, coin: String) Get news articles grouped by category for a specific coin.
• getTopRedditPostsByCoin(lang?: enum, coin: String) Get top reddit posts for a particular coin
• getLatestRedditPostsByCoin(lang?: enum, coin: String) Get latest reddit posts for a particular coin
• getTopTweetsByCoin(lang?: enum, coin: String) Get top tweets for a particular coin
• getLatestTweetsByCoin(lang?: enum, coin: String) Get latest tweets for a particular coin
• getTopFeedByCoin(lang?: enum, coin: String) Get a combined feed (reddit/tweets/articles) for a particular coin (sorted by time)
• getLatestFeedByCoin(lang?: enum, coin: String) Get a combined feed (reddit/tweets/articles) for a particular coin (sorted by relevance)
• getCoinDetails(coin: String) Get all details about a particular coin (links, description, subreddits, twitter etc..)
• enableSentiment() Get the sentiment datapoints

lang allows developers to choose which language they'd like to get the feed. Currently the CryptoControl API supports the following languages:

• English (en default)
• Chinese/Mandarin (cn)
• German (de)
• Italian (it)
• Japanese (jp)
• Korean (ko)
• Portuguese (po)
• Russian (ru)
• Spanish (es)

The coin slugs are the coin id's used from the CoinMarketCap api. You can see the full list of coins here: https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?limit=2000

enableSentiment() will tell CrpytoControl to return articles/reddit/twitter with sentiment datapoints as well (ie. how much +ve/-ve an article is). This feature is for CryptoControl premium users only.

Sample response from the server

[{
    "hotness": 70862.60323026273,
    "activityHotness": 4.601980262729618,
    "primaryCategory": "General",
    "words": 1444,
    "similarArticles": [
        {
            "_id": "5b363b525b113200191a1d5f",
            "publishedAt": "2018-06-29T13:42:44.000Z",
            "title": "Op-Ed: Challenge of Mining Centralization Unveils Bitcoin’s Elegant Design",
            "url": "https://cryptocontrol.io/r/api/article/5b363b525b113200191a1d5f?ref=5ac11440ec0af7be35528459",
            "source": {
                "_id": "59d8c361ef8bf95cc2bfb66f",
                "name": "Bitcoin Magazine",
                "url": "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/"
            },
            "sourceDomain": "bitcoinmagazine.com",
            "thumbnail": null
        },
        {
            "_id": "5b3865405c5681000f2f7407",
            "publishedAt": "2018-06-30T14:58:00.000Z",
            "title": "Arbitration on a Governed Blockchain: EOS’ Crisis of Dispute Resolution",
            "url": "https://cryptocontrol.io/r/api/article/5b3865405c5681000f2f7407?ref=5ac11440ec0af7be35528459",
            "source": {
                "_id": "59d70be3ef8bf95cc2aa2b4f",
                "name": "CoinTelegraph",
                "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/"
            },
            "sourceDomain": "cointelegraph.com",
            "thumbnail": null
        }
    ],
    "coins": [
        {
            "_id": "59cb59f9b0836b0a63aebc7c",
            "name": "Ethereum",
            "tradingSymbol": "eth",
            "slug": "ethereum"
        },
        {
            "_id": "59d21e9b83a0523906a45dc5",
            "name": "EOS",
            "slug": "eos",
            "tradingSymbol": "eos"
        }
    ],
    "_id": "5b3a2e1b104844000fd64e28",
    "description": "The EOS governance disaster offers a strong reminder of how entrenched human mistrust can be difficult to overcome.",
    "publishedAt": "2018-07-02T12:00:27.000Z",
    "title": "It's Too Soon for On-Chain Governance - CoinDesk",
    "url": "https://cryptocontrol.io/r/api/article/5b3a2e1b104844000fd64e28?ref=5ac11440ec0af7be35528459",
    "source": {
        "_id": "59ce11393a44cf289a9a71f5",
        "name": "CoinDesk",
        "url": "http://coindesk.com"
    },
    "thumbnail": "https://cryptocontrol.io/r/thumbnail/5b3a2e1b104844000fd64e28?ref=5ac11440ec0af7be35528459",
    "sourceName": "CoinDesk",
    "sourceUrl": "http://coindesk.com",
    "sourceDomain": "coindesk.com",
    "originalImageUrl": "https://media.coindesk.com/uploads/2018/06/shutterstock_153840266-e1530230263310.jpg"
}]