crypto-news-api

CryptoControl - Python Crypto News API

Official Python client for the CryptoControl.io API. The CryptoControl python client lets developers access rich formatted articles from cryptonews sources from all around the world.

Installation

pip install crypto-news-api

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.

from crypto_news_api import CryptoControlAPI

# Connect to the CryptoControl API
api = CryptoControlAPI("API_KEY_HERE")

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

# Enable the sentiment datapoints
api.enableSentiment()

# Get top news
print(api.getTopNews())

# get latest russian news
print(api.getLatestNews("ru"))

# get top bitcoin news
print(api.getTopNewsByCoin("bitcoin"))

# get top EOS tweets
print(api.getTopTweetsByCoin("eos"))

# get top Ripple reddit posts
print(api.getLatestRedditPostsByCoin("ripple"))

# get reddit/tweets/articles in a single combined feed for NEO
print(api.getTopFeedByCoin("neo"))

# get latest reddit/tweets/articles (seperated) for Litecoin
print(api.getLatestItemsByCoin("litecoin"))

# get details (subreddits, twitter handles, description, links) for ethereum
print(api.getCoinDetails("ethereum"))

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(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get the top news articles for a specific coin from the CryptoControl API.
• getLatestNewsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get the latest news articles for a specific coin.
• getTopNewsByCoinCategory(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get news articles grouped by category for a specific coin.
• getTopRedditPostsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get top reddit posts for a particular coin
• getLatestRedditPostsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get latest reddit posts for a particular coin
• getTopTweetsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get top tweets for a particular coin
• getLatestTweetsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get latest tweets for a particular coin
• getTopFeedByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get a combined feed (reddit/tweets/articles) for a particular coin (sorted by time)
• getLatestFeedByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get a combined feed (reddit/tweets/articles) for a particular coin (sorted by relevance)
• getTopItemsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get reddit/tweets/articles (seperated) for a particular coin (sorted by time)
• getLatestItemsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get reddit/tweets/articles (seperated) 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"
}]