MMM-News and BBC

sdetweil

also doesn’t get ‘content’ or ‘description’, so those will fail too…

DarrenHill

I tried to register for a new api key, but when I tried it told me that they don’t support the UK (where I am) so I wonder if that somehow has something to do with it.

This has obviously changed since I first registered, and given I’m getting some response from the API it is at least partially working, but besides that I have no idea…

mumblebaj

@DarrenHill Hi. Apologies for the late reply. I am on a different timezone than the other guys.

I would suggest using MMM-NewsAPI. The same API key that you are using with MMM-News will work.

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj - Thanks, no need to apologise.

I tried the other module, and it also doesn’t show anything besides it’s “News” header title.

The config I tried was:

        {
            module: "MMM-NewsAPI",
            header: "News",
            position: "bottom_center",
            config: {
                apiKey : "<my API key>",
                domains: "bbc.co.uk",
                language: "en"
                }
        },

And also I tried replacing the domains: with sources: “bbc-news” and that gave the same results.

There’s nothing in the logs, aside from confirming that the module is loading (as can be seen from the displayed title too).

sdetweil

@DarrenHill from the doc

Add DEBUG Handling.
Only add debug: true to the config section if you are experiencing issues and require more information to find issues.

sdetweil

@DarrenHill domins or sources must be inside the much more complex query section of the config

see the doc

                    query: {
                            country: "",
                            category: "",
                            q: "",
                            qInTitle: "",
                            sources: "",
                            domains: "cnn.com,nytimes.com,news24.com",
                            excludeDomains: "",
                            language: ""
                    }

mumblebaj

@DarrenHill MMM-NewsAPI has a whole lot more configs. See below sample.

{
                        module: "MMM-NewsAPI",
                        header: "news",
                       //  disabled: true,
                        position: "bottom_bar",
                        pages: {"sport": "bottom_bar"},
                        config: {
                                apiKey: <api-key>,
                                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: ""
                                        }
                                }
				},

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj - Thanks for the support, and for both modules.

Unfortunately that gives me a headline in Spanish (I think) about Apple iPhone 14 with “undefined” below it.

I also tried your everything example configs from your GH page and got a similar layout (headline and undefined).

I’m beginning to think NewsAPI itself is screwed for me unfortunately, so we may be onto a loser here regardless of module.

sdetweil

@mumblebaj i commented out your disabled: true,

mumblebaj

@DarrenHill That is very weird as the configs seem to work for me and the other guys who have tried to assist thus far.