newsapi-wrapper

newsapi-wrapper is a convenient wrapper to call the News API. All you will need is an API key that you can get here.

Usage

const newsapi = require('newsapi-wrapper');
newsapi
    .setApiKey('xxxxyyyzzz')
    .setCountry('ca')
    .setCategory('sports')
    .setPageSize(25)
    .send()
    .then(response => {
        console.log(`Results: ${response.totalResults}`);
        response.articles.forEach(article => {
            console.log(article.title);
        });
    })
    .catch(err => {
        console.log(err);
    });

Installation

NPM

npm install newsapi-wrapper

yarn

yarn add newsapi-wrapper

API

setDefault

Sets a single default value. Possible keys: country, category, apiKey, pageSize

newsapi.setDefault('country', 'de');

setDefaults

Sets multiple default values at once. Takes an object as a parameter. Possible keys: country, category, apiKey, pageSize.

newsapi.setDefaults({
    country: 'de',
    pageSize: 10,
    category: 'sports'
});

getCategories

Returns an array containing all valid categories, which are: business, entertainment, general, health, science, sports, technology

setCategory

Sets the news category for the next request (not for all subsequent requests). Returns a Request object that can be used to chain other method calls, or to send the request.

const request = newsapi.setCategory('health');
request.setCountry('uk').send();

setCountry

Sets the country for the next request (not for all subsequent requests). Returns a Request object that can be used to chain other method calls, or to send the request.

setPageSize

Sets the page size for the next request (not for all subsequent requests). Returns a Request object that can be used to chain other method calls, or to send the request.

setApiKey

Sets the NewsAPI key for the next request (not for all subsequent requests). Returns a Request object that can be used to chain other method calls, or to send the request.

send

The call to send returns a promise which resolves when the response from the News API is received as intended. Otherwise, it is rejected:

newsapi.request()
       .setCategory('health')
       .setPageSize(15)
       .send()
       .then(response => {
           // Probably do something with response.articles
       })
       .catch(err => {
           console.log(err);
       });

request (deprecated)

Returns an object you can use to build a request, send it, and process the result. Intended to used as a chain of method calls:

newsapi.request()
       .setCategory('health')
       .setPageSize(15)
       .send();

request() is now optional and considered deprecated, because you can call all the request methods on newsapi directly. The above example would then look like this:

newsapi.setCategory('health')
       .setPageSize(15)
       .send();