unofficial-inshorts-wrapper

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Unofficial Inshorts Wrapper is built around the inshorts API.Just adds headers to the already existing API and returns a clearer result

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So I was checking if there were any free APIs to get news from, couldn't find anything. Thought of inshorts and scraped it using beautifulSoup.Returned a json with flask. This worked well but had a limitation.It returned just top news items.

Then used a mobile and saw the requests,found an undocumneted api.Used it with headers of a mobile - device. Cleaned some useless cuttlery. Returned the json using flask.

Usage

• Install Dependencies
• Run read.py

localhost/<lang>/<category>/<number>

• categories -> 'top_stories','trending','all_news'
• number-> number of news items you want

localhost/topic/<lang>/<category>/<number>

• categories -> 'india','business','politics','sports','technology','startups','entertainment','hatke','international','automobile','science','travel','miscellaneous','fashion'

• number-> Page Number of results that you want.

• lang can be 'en'(glish) or 'hi'(ndi)

Dependencies

• Flask
• flask-cors
• requestss

Try not calling the api again and again.Instead save results in your local database and fetch results from there. Don't know anything about legal matter here.The API was pretty open