README.md

In news-r/currents: Capture the World News Through Simple 'JSON' Web 'API'

currents

Integrates the currents API with R.

Installation

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("news-r/currents")

Example

Specify you API key with currents_key or put it in your .Renviron as CURRENTS_API_KEY.

library(currents)

currents_key("xXxxXXXxXXxXxx")

Then use cur_latest or cur_search.

currents::cur_search(keyword = "Donald Trump", language = "en")

## # A tibble: 54 x 9
##    id            title                 description                                         url                                author                 image language category published   
##    <chr>         <chr>                 <chr>                                               <chr>                              <chr>                  <chr> <chr>    <chr>    <chr>       
##  1 7c90b1fe-9bc… Going with the Flow   "An organization consists of two worlds. The real … http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i… Peter De Jong          None  en       research 2020-02-23 …
##  2 b17c7be0-319… People and Process    "When Mike Hammer and I published Reengineering th… http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i… James Champy           None  en       research 2020-02-23 …
##  3 9f502de3-9c9… Best Practice (BPM)   "Just as BPM (business process management) technol… http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i… Derek Miers            None  en       research 2020-02-23 …
##  4 17489c4d-52c… Getting What You Mea… "Software metrics - helpful tools or a waste of ti… http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i… Eric Bouwers, Joost V… None  en       research 2020-02-23 …
##  5 2ea7ea35-038… The IDAR Graph        "UML is the de facto standard for representing obj… http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i… Mark A. Overton        None  en       research 2020-02-23 …
##  6 d6866eca-0e6… CodeFlow: Improving … "Delivering a new set of capabilities for managing… http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i… Jacek Czerwonka, Mich… None  en       research 2020-02-23 …
##  7 de8bb3fb-c4e… Signing Up With Amaz… "Long-time Slashdot reader DogDude shared this art… http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashd… help                   None  en       technol… 2020-02-23 …
##  8 de8bb3fb-c4e… Signing Up With Amaz… "Long-time Slashdot reader DogDude shared this art… http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashd… help                   None  en       game     2020-02-23 …
##  9 f14564b4-2c3… How Peloton Bricked … "DevNull127 writes: Let me get this straight. Pelo… http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashd… help                   None  en       technol… 2020-02-23 …
## 10 f14564b4-2c3… How Peloton Bricked … "DevNull127 writes: Let me get this straight. Pelo… http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashd… help                   None  en       game     2020-02-23 …
## # … with 44 more rows

You can also filter results by region, country or language.

currents::cur_avail_categories()

## # A tibble: 46 x 1
##    categories   
##    <chr>        
##  1 regional     
##  2 technology   
##  3 lifestyle    
##  4 business     
##  5 general      
##  6 programming  
##  7 science      
##  8 entertainment
##  9 world        
## 10 sports       
## # … with 36 more rows

news-r/currents documentation built on Feb. 27, 2020, 2:38 p.m.