perigon-api-wrapper

Perigon API Wrapper

A minimalist Python wrapper for the Perigon News API. Currently only supports querying all news articles via the v1/all endpoint.

Installation (currently, only tested for Python 3.11):

pip install perigon-api-wrapper

Basic Usage

To initialize the API, import the package and add your API key:

from perigon_api_wrapper import PerigonAPI

# specify your credentials:
api_key = '...'

# initialize API:
api = PerigonAPI(api_key=api_key)

The main method is get_articles(), which takes the following arguments:

• paginate [bool = True]: Whether or not to paginate results (if multiple pages are available). Defaults to True.
• size [int = 100]: The number of results to return per page. Defaults to 100 (maximum allowed by Perigon).
• **kwargs: Arbitrary keyword arguments supported by the Perigon API. Consult the API docs for a comprehensive list of parameters.

get_articles() returns a list of dictionaries, where each dictionary is the JSON of an individual article.

Example:

# speciy **kwargs (recommend dict format):
payload = {
    'content': 'olympics AND usa AND gold',
    'from': '2024-07-26',
    'to': '2024-08-08',
    'language': 'en', 
    'exclude_labels': [
        'Non-news',
        'Opinion',
        'Face Check',
        'Roundup',
        'Low Content'
    ]
}

# get results, using payload as **kwargs:
results = api.get_articles(paginate=False, size=100, **payload)

TODO

• Establish tests for other Python versions (only tested on Python 3.11).
• Add support for querying additional Perigon endpoints.
• Add support for parsing/saving results?