AlchemyAPI – Cognitive News

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AlchemyData News Overview

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• A curated dataset of NLP enriched news and blogs

• Go beyond simple keyword search to look at sentiment, entities, events, and trends

• Updated with over 300k articles every day

Sample Query

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For an article that mentions "IBM" or "Apple" we want to find all of the named entities in the article body, and their types.

curl https://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/data/GetNews?outputMode=json&start=now-1d&end=now&count=1&q.enriched.url.title=O[IBM^Apple]&return=enriched.url.title,enriched.url.entities.entity.text,enriched.url.entities.entity.type&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

Sample Response

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{ "result": { "docs": [ { "id": "Mjc5NDExNDQyfDE0Mjg4ODMyMDA", "source": { "enriched": { "url": { "entities": [ { "text": "IBM", "type": "Company" }, { "text": "Apple", "type": "Company" }, { "text": "Watson Health Cloud", "type": "Facility" }, { "text": "IBM Watson Health", "type": "Company" } ], "title": "Apple partners with IBM Watson Health Cloud to bring secure cloud, data analytics to HealthKit and ResearchKit"

Sample Query

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Find the 20 most recent articles (titles and URLs) mentioning "Alzheimer's" in the title.

curl https://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/data/GetNews?apikey=YOUR_APP_APIKEY&start=now-7d&end=now&return=enriched.url.url,enriched.url.title&q.enriched.url.title=Alzheimer%27s&outputMode=json&count=20

Sample Response

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{ "status": "OK", "totalTransactions": "60", "result": { "docs": [ { "id": "MTk5MTQzNjA2MXwxNDI5MTI3MjQ2", "source": { "enriched": { "url": { "title": "Study Suggests Link Between Alzheimer's And Immune System - Newsy Story", "url": "http://www.abcactionnews.com/newsy/study-suggests-link-between-alzheimers-and-immune-system" } } }, "timestamp": 1429127246 } ], "status": "OK" }}

Count and TimeSlice Queries

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Get count of articles over the past 30 days:

Get a time series count of articles over the past 7 days divided into 12-hour bins:

https://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/data/GetNews?apikey=YOUR_APP_APIKEY&outputMode=json&start=now-30d&end=now

https://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/data/GetNews?apikey=YOUR_APP_APIKEY&outputMode=json&start=now-7d&end=now&timeSlice=12h

Restrictions

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Title contains "baseball" AND "soccer":

Title does not contain "baseball":

Match all articles where document sentiment is positive and score is >= 0.5:

q.enriched.url.docSentiment.type=positive&q.enriched.url.docSentiment.score=>=0.5

q.enriched.url.title=-[baseball]

q.enriched.url.title=A[baseball^soccer]

Nested / Adjacent Fields

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Ex. A: "I moved from Denton, TX to Paris, France."Ex. B: "Paris walked fifteen miles to Denton, TX."

Query 1)q.enriched.url.enrichedTitle.entities.entity=|text=paris,type=city|

Query 2)q.enriched.url.enrichedTitle.entities.entity.text=paris&q.enriched.url.enrichedTitle.entities.entity.type=city

Query 1) is saying: I want at least one entity with the text 'Paris' and the type 'City'. Query 2) is saying: I want at least one entity in the title to have the text 'Paris' and at least one entity to be a city, but not necessarily the same entity.

Available Fields

• Over 400 fields available for querying and display

• Full list can be found here

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Are you ready to get started?

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