Apple-news-client NPM

Apple News API Client

This is a rewrite of MicNews' API wrapper for the Apple News API.

It retains the same support for creating, reading, updating, and searching articles. It also retains support for reading and listing sections and channels.

Changes

TypeScript Source and Declarations - This rewrite was done completely in TypeScript and is compiled down to ES5 with declaration files for backwards compatibility.
Bundle File Fetch Method - The original repository utilized an HTTP GET request to pull down any bundled files, including images and fonts. This incarnation presently reads from a local file system location. In the future this will probably be extended to employ both methods based on a flag.

Code Documentation

TBD

Install

npm install apple-news-client

Usage

TypeScript

import { AppleNewsClient } from "apple-news-client";

const client: AppleNewsClient = new AppleNewsClient({
    apiId: "<API_ID>",
    apiSecret: "<API_SECRET>",
});

JavaScript

const AppleNewsClient = require("apple-news-client");

const client = new AppleNewsClient({
    apiId: "<API_ID>",
    apiSecret: "<API_SECRET>",
});

Methods

Note: The method code examples below are displayed in TypeScript. For ES5/ES6 JavaScript just remove the type assertions.

Any of the bellow methods with promises

Same methods name with Async appended at the end: readChannel => readChannelAsync

TYPESCRIPT: Returns typed promise so it can be called like client.readChannel<MyInterface>(...) - defaults to unknown if type is omitted

async function veryDescriptiveFunctionName {
    // wrap into try/catch if you wish
    const data = await client.readChannelAsync({ channelId: "<CHANNEL_ID>", });

    // Do something with the response here.
}

async function veryDescriptiveFunctionName {
    client.readChannelAsync({ channelId: "<CHANNEL_ID>", })
        .then(res => {

            // Do something with the response here.
        }).catch(err => {

            // Handle error.
        });
}

readChannel

Get the details of a specified channel.

client.readChannel(
    { channelId: "<CHANNEL_ID>", },
    (error: Error, response: any) => {

        // Do something with the response here.
});

listSections

Get a list of sections for a specified channel.

client.listSections(
    { channelId: "<CHANNEL_ID>", },
    (error: Error, response: any) => {

        // Do something with the response here.
});

readSection

Get the details of a specified section.

client.readSection(
    { sectionId: "<SECTION_ID>", },
    (error: Error, response: any) => {

        // Do something with the response here.
});

createArticle

Create an article on the specified channel.

const channelId: string = "<CHANNEL_ID>";
const article: any = require("<PATH_TO_ARTICLE>/article.json");
const bundleFiles: any = {
    "image.jpg": "<PATH_TO_ARTICLE>/image.jpg",
    "image2.png": "<PATH_TO_ARTICLE>/image2.png",
};

client.createArticle(
    { channelId, article, bundleFiles, },
    (error: Error, response: any) => {

        // Do something with the response here.
});

readArticle

Get the details for a specified article.

client.readArticle(
    { articleId: "<ARTICLE_ID>", },
    (error: Error, response: any) => {

        // Do something with the response here.
});

updateArticle

Update the specified article.

const articleId: string = "<ARTICLE_ID>";
const revision: string = "2";
const article: any = require("<PATH_TO_ARTICLE>/article.json");

client.updateArticle(
    { articleId, revision, article, },
    (error: Error, response: any) => {

        // Do something with the response here.
});

deleteArticle

Delete the specified article.

client.deleteArticle(
    { articleId: "<PATH_TO_ARTICLE>", },
    (error: Error, response: any) => {

        // Do something with the response here.
});

searchArticles

Search articles in section with specified parameters.

Optional parameters:

Strings: fromDate, sortDir, toDate, pageToken
Integer: pageSize

client.searchArticles(
    { sectionId: "<SECTION_ID>", },
    (error: Error, response: any) => {

        // Do something with the response here.
});

Build From Source

Pretty simple: clone the repository, instal the dependencies then run the build script:

git clone https://github.com/robert-fairley/apple-news-client
cd apple-news-client
npm install
npm run build

You can also of course optionally just copy the contents of the src folder into your existing TypeScript project and import as above, but using the relative path to the index.ts file.