webhose.io client for Node.js

A simple way to access the Webhose.io API from your Node.js code

const webhoseio = require('webhoseio');

const client = webhoseio.config({token: 'YOUR_API_KEY'});
client.query('filterWebContent', {q: 'github'})
  .then(output => {
    console.log(output['posts'][0]['text']); // Print the text of the first post
    console.log(output['posts'][0]['published']); // Print the text of the first post publication date
});

// Get the next batch of posts
client.getNext()
  .then(output => {
    console.log(output['posts'][0]['thread']['site']); // Print the site of the first post
  });

API Key

To make use of the webhose.io API, you need to obtain a token that would be used on every request. To obtain an API key, create an account at https://webhose.io/auth/signup, and then go into https://webhose.io/dashboard to see your token.

Installing

You can install using npm:

$ npm install webhoseio

Use the API

To get started, you need to import the library, and set your access token. (Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual API key).

const webhoseio = require('webhoseio');

const client = webhoseio.config({token: 'YOUR_API_KEY'});

API Endpoints

The first parameter the query() function accepts is the API endpoint string. Available endpoints:

• filterWebContent - access to the news/blogs/forums/reviews API
• productFilter - access to data about eCommerce products/services
• darkFilter - access to the dark web (coming soon)

Now you can make a request and inspect the results:

client.query('filterWebContent', {q: 'github'})
  .then(output => {
    console.log(output['totalResults']);
    // 15565094

    console.log(output['posts'].length);
    // 100

    console.log(output['posts'][0]['language']);
    // english

    console.log(output['posts'][0]['title']);
    // Putting quotes around dictionary keys in JS
});

For your convenience, functions query and getNext both return Promise with one argument - the response JSON, so you can loop over it and get all the results of this batch (up to 100).

client.query('filterWebContent', {q: 'github'})
  .then(output => {
    let totalWords = output['posts'].reduce((sum, post) => {
      return sum + post['text'].split(' ').length}, 0);
    console.log(totalWords);
    // 8822
  });

Full documentation

• config({token})

  • token - your API key

• query(end_point_str, params)

  • end_point_str:
    • filterWebContent - access to the news/blogs/forums/reviews API
    • productFilter - access to data about eCommerce products/services
    • darkFilter - access to the dark web (coming soon)
  • params: A key value dictionary. The most common key is the "q" parameter that hold the filters Boolean query. Read about the available filters.

• getNext() - a method to fetch the next page of results.

Polling

If you want to make repeated searches, performing an action whenever there are new results, use code like this:

const client = webhoseio.config({token: 'YOUR_API_KEY'});
let r = client.query('filterWebContent', {q: 'github'});

setInterval(() => {
  r.then(output => {
    output['posts'].map(post => performAction(post));
    return client.getNext();
  });
}, 300);