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A node interface for CurrentsAPI.
Latest news headlines and metadata in JSON from 13,000 popular news sites. Powered by Currents Api
In order to use this package you need to register at https://currentsapi.services/en/register
Please refer to our documentation to see details about how to use the API. The convenience functions provided by this module is simply passing your options along as querystring parameters to the REST API, so the documentation is totally valid.
There are some usage examples below to see how these options should be passed in.
If you use this in a project, kindly add an attribution : 'powered by Currents API' with links back to Currents Api.
$ npm i -s currentsapi
$ API_KEY=<your api key> npm test
All methods support promises and node-style callbacks.
const CurrentsAPI = require('currentsapi');
const currentsapi = new CurrentsAPI('YOUR_API_KEY');
// To query latest news
// All options passed to search are optional
currentsapi.search({
keywords: 'Trump',
language: 'en',
country: 'US'
}).then(response => {
console.log(response);
/*
{
status: "ok",
news: [...]
}
*/
});
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A node interface for News API from currentsapi.services
The npm package currentsapi receives a total of 100 weekly downloads. As such, currentsapi popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that currentsapi demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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