ballerinax/newsapi Ballerina library

Overview

This is a generated connector for News API v2.0.0 OpenAPI specification.

News API used to fetch news(articles, headlines and sources) from news sources and blogs across the web.

Prerequisites

Before using this connector in your Ballerina application, complete the following:

• Create News API Account
• Obtaining tokens
  1. Log into News API Account
  2. Get API key by clicking to Get API Key

Quickstart

Step 1: Import connector

Import the ballerinax/newsapi module into the Ballerina project.

import ballerinax/newsapi;

Step 2: Create a new connector instance

newsapi:ApiKeysConfig config = {
    apiKey : "<your apiKey>"
};

newsapi:Client myclient = check new newsapi:Client(config, {}, "https://newsapi.org/v2");

Step 3: Invoke connector operation

1. You can get top headlines as follows with listTopHeadlines method by passing country as a parameter.

   newsapi:WSNewsTopHeadlineResponse result = check myclient->listTopHeadlines(country="us");

2. Use bal run command to compile and run the Ballerina program.