The News API Python Wrapper

This package provides an asynchronous Python client for The News API, allowing you to easily fetch headlines, top stories, all news, sources, and similar articles.

Features

• Async API client using httpx
• Typed responses via Pydantic models
• Category validation
• Context manager support for resource management

Endpoints

The client exposes the following endpoints:

• get_headlines: Get the latest headlines.
• get_top_stories: Fetch top stories with advanced filtering.
• get_all_news: Retrieve all news articles with search and filter options.
• get_sources: List available news sources.
• get_similar_news: Find articles similar to a given article UUID.
• get_news_by_uuid: Fetch a single article by its UUID.

Installation

pip install py-the-news-api

Usage

import asyncio
from the_news_api.client import NewsAPIClient

async def main():
    async with NewsAPIClient(api_token="YOUR_API_TOKEN") as client:
        headlines = await client.get_headlines(language="en")
        print(headlines)

asyncio.run(main())

Example: Fetch Top Stories

async with NewsAPIClient(api_token="YOUR_API_TOKEN") as client:
    stories = await client.get_top_stories(categories=["tech", "science"], limit=5)
    for article in stories.articles:
        print(article.title)

Category Filtering

Supported categories:

• general, science, sports, business, health, entertainment, tech, politics, food, travel

License

MIT

Links

• The News API Documentation
• GitHub Repository