crypto-news-api 2.3.0

Client to get a crypto newsfeed in your app from the CryptoControl API

CryptoControl - Python Crypto News API

Official Python client for the CryptoControl.io API. The CryptoControl python client lets developers access rich formatted articles from cryptonews sources from all around the world.

Installation

pip install crypto-news-api

Usage

First make sure that you've recieved an API key by visiting https://cryptocontrol.io/apis. With the API key you can write the following code.

from crypto_news_api import CryptoControlAPI

# Connect to the CryptoControl API
api = CryptoControlAPI("API_KEY_HERE")

# Connect to a self-hosted proxy server (to improve performance) that points to cryptocontrol.io
proxyApi = CryptoControlAPI("API_KEY_HERE", "http://cryptocontrol_proxy/api/v1/public")

api.enableSentiment()

# Get top news
print(api.getTopNews())

# get latest russian news
print(api.getLatestNews("ru"))

# get top bitcoin news
print(api.getTopNewsByCoin("bitcoin"))

# get top EOS tweets
print(api.getTopTweetsByCoin("eos"))

# get top Ripple reddit posts
print(api.getLatestRedditPostsByCoin("ripple"))

# get reddit/tweets/articles in a single combined feed for NEO
print(api.getTopFeedByCoin("neo"))

# get latest reddit/tweets/articles (seperated) for Litecoin
print(api.getLatestItemsByCoin("litecoin"))

# get details (subreddits, twitter handles, description, links) for ethereum
print(api.getCoinDetails("ethereum"))

Available Functions

• getTopNews(lang?: enum) Get the top news articles.
• getLatestNews(lang?: enum) Get the latest news articles.
• getTopNewsByCategory(lang?: enum) Get news articles grouped by category.
• getTopNewsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get the top news articles for a specific coin from the CryptoControl API.
• getLatestNewsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get the latest news articles for a specific coin.
• getTopNewsByCoinCategory(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get news articles grouped by category for a specific coin.
• getTopRedditPostsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get top reddit posts for a particular coin
• getLatestRedditPostsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get latest reddit posts for a particular coin
• getTopTweetsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get top tweets for a particular coin
• getLatestTweetsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get latest tweets for a particular coin
• getTopFeedByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get a combined feed (reddit/tweets/articles) for a particular coin (sorted by time)
• getLatestFeedByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get a combined feed (reddit/tweets/articles) for a particular coin (sorted by relevance)
• getTopItemsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get reddit/tweets/articles (seperated) for a particular coin (sorted by time)
• getLatestItemsByCoin(coin: String, lang?: enum) Get reddit/tweets/articles (seperated) for a particular coin (sorted by relevance)
• getCoinDetails(coin: String) Get all details about a particular coin (links, description, subreddits, twitter etc..)

lang allows developers to choose which language they'd like to get the feed. Currently CryptoControl supports English (en) and Russian (ru) article feeds.

The coin slugs are the coin id's used from the CoinMarketCap api. You can see the full list of coins here: https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?limit=2000

Sample response from the server

[{
    "hotness": 70862.60323026273,
    "activityHotness": 4.601980262729618,
    "primaryCategory": "General",
    "words": 1444,
    "similarArticles": [
        {
            "_id": "5b363b525b113200191a1d5f",
            "publishedAt": "2018-06-29T13:42:44.000Z",
            "title": "Op-Ed: Challenge of Mining Centralization Unveils Bitcoin’s Elegant Design",
            "url": "https://cryptocontrol.io/r/api/article/5b363b525b113200191a1d5f?ref=5ac11440ec0af7be35528459",
            "source": {
                "_id": "59d8c361ef8bf95cc2bfb66f",
                "name": "Bitcoin Magazine",
                "url": "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/"
            },
            "sourceDomain": "bitcoinmagazine.com",
            "thumbnail": null
        },
        {
            "_id": "5b3865405c5681000f2f7407",
            "publishedAt": "2018-06-30T14:58:00.000Z",
            "title": "Arbitration on a Governed Blockchain: EOS’ Crisis of Dispute Resolution",
            "url": "https://cryptocontrol.io/r/api/article/5b3865405c5681000f2f7407?ref=5ac11440ec0af7be35528459",
            "source": {
                "_id": "59d70be3ef8bf95cc2aa2b4f",
                "name": "CoinTelegraph",
                "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/"
            },
            "sourceDomain": "cointelegraph.com",
            "thumbnail": null
        }
    ],
    "coins": [
        {
            "_id": "59cb59f9b0836b0a63aebc7c",
            "name": "Ethereum",
            "tradingSymbol": "eth",
            "slug": "ethereum"
        },
        {
            "_id": "59d21e9b83a0523906a45dc5",
            "name": "EOS",
            "slug": "eos",
            "tradingSymbol": "eos"
        }
    ],
    "_id": "5b3a2e1b104844000fd64e28",
    "description": "The EOS governance disaster offers a strong reminder of how entrenched human mistrust can be difficult to overcome.",
    "publishedAt": "2018-07-02T12:00:27.000Z",
    "title": "It's Too Soon for On-Chain Governance - CoinDesk",
    "url": "https://cryptocontrol.io/r/api/article/5b3a2e1b104844000fd64e28?ref=5ac11440ec0af7be35528459",
    "source": {
        "_id": "59ce11393a44cf289a9a71f5",
        "name": "CoinDesk",
        "url": "http://coindesk.com"
    },
    "thumbnail": "https://cryptocontrol.io/r/thumbnail/5b3a2e1b104844000fd64e28?ref=5ac11440ec0af7be35528459",
    "sourceName": "CoinDesk",
    "sourceUrl": "http://coindesk.com",
    "sourceDomain": "coindesk.com",
    "originalImageUrl": "https://media.coindesk.com/uploads/2018/06/shutterstock_153840266-e1530230263310.jpg"
}]