NewsMesh Python SDK

Official Python SDK for the NewsMesh News API.

Installation

pip install newsmesh

For async support:

pip install newsmesh[async]

Quick Start

from newsmesh import NewsMeshClient

client = NewsMeshClient("your-api-key")

# Get trending articles
trending = client.get_trending(limit=10)
for article in trending:
    print(f"{article.title} - {article.source}")

Features

• Sync and Async clients - Choose based on your application needs
• Type hints - Full type annotations for IDE support
• Automatic retries - Exponential backoff on transient failures
• Pagination helpers - Easy iteration through large result sets
• Custom exceptions - Granular error handling

Usage

Initialize the Client

from newsmesh import NewsMeshClient

# Basic initialization
client = NewsMeshClient("your-api-key")

# With custom settings
client = NewsMeshClient(
    "your-api-key",
    timeout=60.0,      # Request timeout in seconds
    max_retries=5,     # Max retry attempts
)

# Using context manager (recommended)
with NewsMeshClient("your-api-key") as client:
    articles = client.get_trending()

Get Trending Articles

response = client.get_trending(limit=10)

for article in response:
    print(article.title)
    print(article.description)
    print(article.link)
    print("---")

Get Latest Articles

# Basic usage
response = client.get_latest(limit=25)

# With filters
response = client.get_latest(
    category="technology",           # Single category
    country="us",                    # ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code
    limit=10,
)

# Multiple categories and countries
response = client.get_latest(
    category=["politics", "world"],
    country=["us", "gb"],
)

# With date range
from datetime import date

response = client.get_latest(
    from_date="2025-01-01",          # String format
    to_date=date(2025, 1, 31),       # Or date object
)

Search Articles

# Basic search
response = client.search("climate change")

# With options
response = client.search(
    "artificial intelligence",
    limit=20,
    sort_by="relevant",              # "date_descending", "date_ascending", "relevant"
    from_date="2025-01-01",
)

Get Single Article

article = client.get_article("article-id-123")
print(article.title)

Pagination

# Manual pagination
response = client.get_latest(limit=25)
while response.has_more:
    for article in response:
        print(article.title)
    response = client.get_latest(cursor=response.next_cursor)

# Automatic pagination with iterator
for article in client.paginate("get_latest", category="technology"):
    print(article.title)

Async Usage

import asyncio
from newsmesh import AsyncNewsMeshClient

async def main():
    async with AsyncNewsMeshClient("your-api-key") as client:
        # Get trending
        trending = await client.get_trending()

        # Search
        results = await client.search("tech news")

        # Paginate
        async for article in client.paginate("get_latest"):
            print(article.title)

asyncio.run(main())

Error Handling

from newsmesh import (
    NewsMeshClient,
    AuthenticationError,
    RateLimitError,
    NotFoundError,
    ValidationError,
)

client = NewsMeshClient("your-api-key")

try:
    article = client.get_article("invalid-id")
except AuthenticationError:
    print("Invalid API key")
except RateLimitError as e:
    print(f"Rate limited. Retry after: {e.retry_after}")
except NotFoundError:
    print("Article not found")
except ValidationError as e:
    print(f"Invalid request: {e.message}")

Article Properties

article = client.get_article("some-id")

article.article_id       # Unique identifier
article.title            # Headline
article.description      # Summary/blurb
article.link             # URL to original article
article.published_date   # ISO 8601 timestamp string
article.published_datetime  # As datetime object
article.source           # Publisher name
article.category         # Category (e.g., "technology")
article.topics           # List of topics/tags
article.media_url        # Featured image URL (may be None)
article.people           # People mentioned (may be None)
article.author           # Author name (may be None)

API Reference

Supported Countries

Filter by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes:

ae, au, be, br, ca, cn, co, de, eg, fr, gb, hk, id, ie, il, in, it, jp, kr, mx, my, ng, nl, no, ph, ru, sa, sg, th, tr, tw, ua, us, ve, za

License

MIT