MMM-NewsAPI

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj I’m trying to do something similar, but can’t quite get it to work.

I’ve got the module running in the centre bottom, and want to run it vertically rather than horizontally (so it’s more a block than a footer).
It’s almost there, except I can’t get the title to look right. Sometimes it’s OK (goes horizontally in a single line) but other times I get the text either going one word per line stacked vertically, or a block of the first few words like that and then the rest below in a correctly oriented line.

Is there anything I can adjust to make it work better and look right (all the title text going horizontally, line wrapped if it’s too long to fit)?

My config currently looks like this:

       {
            module: "MMM-NewsAPI",
            header: "News",
            position: "bottom_center",
            config: {
                    apiKey: "#########################",
                    type: "vertical",
                    choice: "everything",
                    pageSize: 20,
                    sortBy: "publishedAt",
                    drawInterval: 1000*30,
                    templateFile: "template.html",
                    fetchInterval: 1000*60*60,
                    query: {
                        country: "",
                        category: "",
                        q: "",
                        qInTitle: "",
                        sources: "",
                        domains: "bbc.co.uk",
                        excludeDomains: "",
                        language: ""
                        }
                    }
        },

and custom.css:


#NEWSAPI.vertical .header .title .content .footer {
    text-align: center;
}

Still it’s nice to have this module working in the UK again! :)

mumblebaj

@DarrenHill Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Seems like the QR code is the culprit. Will advise once I get a chance to have a look and push a fix for it.

mumblebaj

@DarrenHill Have made some changes now.

Here with QACode:

And now without QRCODE

Will push the changes shortly

mumblebaj

@DarrenHill Changes have been pushed. You can update the module now.

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj - Thanks for the very fast response.

Will update and test.

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj said in MMM-NewsAPI:

@DarrenHill Changes have been pushed. You can update the module now.

All up and running - that’s a fix from my side :D
Thanks again for that.

Might have a play with the layout as the pics etc are a bit small (and there’s space to expand things around them in my layout), but I can handle that.

dondula

@mumblebaj
Hi, I have been running your MMM-News module for a couple years now. As of Sunday when my mirror restarted the module no longer shows up anymore. I tried to reinstall it and checked my sources in the config and nothing was altered.

Can you help me try and troubleshoot what could be happening? Let me know what I would need to provide to help. I’m not super savvy with this stuff, the mirror was actually built for me.

Thank you in advance.

sdetweil

@dondula said in MMM-NewsAPI:

. As of Sunday when my mirror refreshed

what does that mean? we don’t have auto update as part of MagicMirror

dondula

@sdetweil
Sorry let me rephrase, I have the mirror auto restart every Sunday and I noticed that’s when the module disappeared. This is for the MMM-News module not sure if this thread is talking about a different one.

I’ve checked my API key which still seems to be valid when testing in a browser. I also deleted all my sources except 1, so I’m not really sure what happened?

sdetweil

@dondula ok, can you look at the logs?

pm2 logs --lines=100

100 is any number, its the last xxxx lines. it defaults to 15…

so as its tuesday there could be a lot of info there…

could try to clear the logs and restart … to get just the newest

pm2 flush
pm2 restart MagicMirror

wait

then

pm2 logs --lines=50

dondula

@sdetweil

Here are the logs, I do see this one error regarding an expired certificate but I wasn’t sure what that meant.

0|MagicMir | [16.04.2024 10:46.13.203] [LOG] [NEWS] Error : https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?sources=the-verge&pageSize=20&apiKey=a5a6d37d5e934351b7e8dbac65312e82 FetchError: request to https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?sources=the-verge&pageSize=20&apiKey=a5a6d37d5e934351b7e8dbac65312e82 failed, reason: certificate has expired
0|MagicMir | at ClientRequest. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-News/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1491:11)
0|MagicMir | at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:315:20)
0|MagicMir | at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:426:9)

mumblebaj

@dondula said in MMM-NewsAPI:

MMM-News

Hi. My module is MMM-NewsAPI. Are you referring to my module? I have not released any updates and since you have not refreshed the module I am unsure why. As Sam advised, if you could send us any errors in the logs we can then browse over that and see.

dondula

@mumblebaj

Hi there, thanks for the response. When I went to reinstall this module it was pulling from your git repository, so I assumed it was yours as well.

If I am wrong please let me know. I had posted my log errors above and wasn’t sure what was going on.

mumblebaj

@dondula said in MMM-NewsAPI:

/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-News/node_modules

Unfortunately this shows MMM-News and not MMM-NewsAPI. Can you show me the module detail in the ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js? Everything except your API key.

mumblebaj

@dondula I have just tested MMM-NewsAPI with the config that you have and it works just fine.

Config used:

Your key seems to be working fine as well using MMM-NewsAPI.

dondula

@mumblebaj

See below

disabled: false,
classes: “hide”,
module: “MMM-News”,
position: “middle_center”,
config: {
debug: false,
apiKey: “”,// set your newsapi.org API Key
type: “vertical”, // “horizontal”, “vertical” You can make your own type with CSS class selector.

// See https://newsapi.org/sources for available query options('sources' or `country`, `category`).
query : [
  {
    sources: "the-verge",
    // A comma-seperated string of identifiers for the news sources or blogs you want headlines from.
    // Too many `sources` at once could make API error. If you want, split them to several queries.
    // `sources` are not able to be mixed with `country` and `category`.
  },


],
items: 20, // number of how many headlines to get from each query. max 100
timeFormat: "relative", // Or You can use "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss" format.
drawInterval: 1000*30, // How long time each article will be shown.
scanInterval: 1000*60*30, // Delay before rescan news (limited to 100 query by day and 50 query for 12 hours)
touchable: false, // When you have a touchable or clickable interface on your MM.
templateFile: "template.html"

}
},

mumblebaj

@dondula Just thinking out loud, there was a MMM-News which has been archived now I believe. I handed it back to the original author of the module. You can install MMM-NewsAPI if you like? Same config, just need to update the module name in the config.js from MMM-News to MMM-NewsAPI.

dondula

@mumblebaj

I appreciate the suggestion, unfortunately someone else built this mirror for me and it has multiple pages of widgets that were preconfigured for me. So the config file is pretty complex and points to that old module in various config settings. When I try to update the name of the old module to the new one and reboot MM, it just goes to a black screen.

Would you have any idea what the expired certificate error could mean in my previous log post? I’m just wondering if it’s something I can fix on my end to make the old module work again.

If it’s not too much trouble could you post me a clean config for the new module with the settings from my current one applied? I’m sure some of these old settings are messing with your new module.

Again I really appreciate your assistance on this.

mumblebaj

@dondula Yeah, MMM-News was handed back to original author and archived. You should install MMM-NewsAPI and use that instead.

ufransa

Hi all, setting up this amazing module but it seems to not work for me and I have no idea why. I tried already:

Test api on postman. It works perfectly
Check on the console. Nothing seems to be wrong
Delete all modules except this one. Nothing changes

I´m also using it on an vertical screen but I don´t thing the type can make any changes to it. Tried already and nothing.

This is my config at the moment.

{
			module: "MMM-NewsAPI",
			header: "news",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			pages: { "sport": "bottom_bar" },
			config: {
				apiKey: "MYAPIKEY",
				type: "horizontal",
				choice: "everything",
				pageSize: 20,
				sortBy: "publishedAt",
				drawInterval: 1000 * 30,
				templateFile: "template.html",
				fetchInterval: 1000 * 60 * 60,
				query: {
					country: "",
					category: "",
					q: "",
					qInTitle: "",
					sources: "",
					domains: "bbc.co.uk",
					excludeDomains: "",
					language: ""
				}
			}
		},

Thanks for the help !!