mmm newsapi help

[1a2a3a]

hi i cant seems to get to module to work as intended.

is it possible to specify 2 countries?
even then, when i specify country as SG, it keep showing me the default news from 24news.

what am i doing wrong here?

{
               module: "MMM-NewsAPI",
               header: "news",
               position: "top_center",
               config: {
                       apiKey: "12345",
                       type: "horizontal",
                       choice: "headlines",
                       pageSize: 10,
                       sortBy: "publishedAt",
                       drawInterval: 1000*30,
                       templateFile: "template.html",
                       fetchInterval: 1000*60*60,
                       QRCode: true,
                       query: {
                               country: "sg",
   			category: "",
   			q: "",
                               qInTitle: "",
                               domains: "",
                               excludeDomains: "",
                               language: "",
                       }
               }
       },

[MMRIZE]

@1a2a3a

When you set choices:'headlines' and query.country: 'sg', it doesn’t mean news from Singapore press. Rather, it would be more similar to About/For Singapore or Popular in Singapore.

Usually for news from Specific national press, sources: [...] would be used.
For example;

sources: ['bild', 'die-zeit'], 

will show the news from the specific sources of Germany.

You can check sources by nation like this by yourself.

# Open your browser then navigate to here;
https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines/sources?country=de&apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY

But unfortunately, For Singapore, there is no registered national source for this API.

It means even though this NewsAPI collects the news from various sources, you cannot specify the sources from only Singapore. You are not alone. For many countries, the API doesn’t provide the national source.

[1a2a3a]

@mumblebaj help please?

[sdetweil]

@1a2a3a looking at the newsapi doc says comma separated for multiples… doesn’t says country can be, or not.

you may need to restrict domains…

just from looking at tje newsapi doc
@mumblebaj any help?

[mumblebaj]

@1a2a3a Hi. Apologies for the late reply. Timezone difference. It does not support multiple countries. Blank for all countries or only a single country specified.

[1a2a3a]

@mumblebaj no apologies needed on the late reply, all well and understood. That’s unfortunate. Was really hoping for multiple country and sources. Can I assume if I really want multiple, I’ll need to have multiple module instances of newsapi?

Are there any modules anyone know of that can newsfeed support multiple countries?

[mumblebaj]

@1a2a3a Yeah, unfortunately it would mean a bit of a re-write to perform multiple calls per country but that would mean your call limit would get finished much much quicker.

[sdetweil]

@1a2a3a this modules doesn’t support multiple instances.

[sdetweil]

@mumblebaj and if multiple instances same problem

[1a2a3a]

@mumblebaj i cant get my newsapi to work properly.

im trying to get SG all news. i set country to SG but its return other country news like 1News, AZoM. i dont understand why?

{
               module: "MMM-NewsAPI",
               header: "News",
               position: "top_center",
               config: {
                       apiKey: "12345",
                       type: "horizontal",
                       choice: "headlines",
                       pageSize: 50,
                       
                       drawInterval: 1000*30,
                       templateFile: "template.html",
                       fetchInterval: 1000*60*60,
                       QRCode: true,
                       query: {
                               country: "sg",
   			
   			category: "",
   			
   			
                               source: "",
                               domains: "",
                               excludeDomains: "",
                               language: "en",
                       }
               }
       },

[MMRIZE]

@1a2a3a

When you set choices:'headlines' and query.country: 'sg', it doesn’t mean news from Singapore press. Rather, it would be more similar to About/For Singapore or Popular in Singapore.

Usually for news from Specific national press, sources: [...] would be used.
For example;

sources: ['bild', 'die-zeit'], 

will show the news from the specific sources of Germany.

You can check sources by nation like this by yourself.

# Open your browser then navigate to here;
https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines/sources?country=de&apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY

But unfortunately, For Singapore, there is no registered national source for this API.

It means even though this NewsAPI collects the news from various sources, you cannot specify the sources from only Singapore. You are not alone. For many countries, the API doesn’t provide the national source.