mediacloud-api-legacy 3.13.1
Legacy Media Cloud API Client Library
License: MIT

Legacy MediaCloud Python API Client
===================================

This is a python client for accessing the [MediaCloud API v2](https://github.com/berkmancenter/mediacloud/blob/master/doc/api_2_0_spec/api_2_0_spec.md). 
We support Python versions 2.7 and 3.6.

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Related work:
* See our [MediaCloud-API-Tutorial_Notebooks](https://github.com/rahulbot/MediaCloud-API-Tutorial-Notebooks) repo for *many* more examples of use   
* If you happen to work in R, check out the [`mediacloudr` library for R](https://github.com/jandix/mediacloudr) 
(from Dix Jan).

This package exists to mantain access to our legacy search interface while we build out tooling and reliability for our new system. API keys for the new search tools will not work for this API. 


Usage
-----

First [sign up for an API key](https://core.mediacloud.org/login/register).  Then
```
pip install mediacloud-api-legacy
```

Check `CHANGELOG.md` for a detailed history of changes.

Examples
--------

Find out how many stories in the top US online news sites mentioned "Zimbabwe" in the last year:
```python
import mediacloud.api
mc = mediacloud.api.MediaCloud('MY_API_KEY')
res = mc.storyCount('zimbabwe AND president AND tags_id_media:58722749', 'publish_date:[NOW-1YEAR TO NOW]')
print(res['count']) # prints the number of stories found
```

Get 2000 stories from the NYT about a topic in 2018 and dump the output to json:

```python
import mediacloud.api, json, datetime
mc = mediacloud.api.MediaCloud('MY_API_KEY')

fetch_size = 500
stories = []
last_processed_stories_id = 0
while len(stories) < 2000:
    fetched_stories = mc.storyList('trump AND "north korea" AND media_id:1', 
                                   solr_filter=mc.dates_as_query_clause(datetime.date(2018,1,1), datetime.date(2019,1,1)),
                                   last_processed_stories_id=last_processed_stories_id, rows= fetch_size)
    stories.extend(fetched_stories)
    if len( fetched_stories) < fetch_size:
        break
    last_processed_stories_id = stories[-1]['processed_stories_id']
print(json.dumps(stories))
```

Find the most commonly used words in stories from the US top online news sites that mentioned "Zimbabwe" and "president" in 2013:
```python
import mediacloud.api, datetime
mc = mediacloud.api.MediaCloud('MY_API_KEY')
words = mc.wordCount('zimbabwe AND president AND tags_id_media:58722749',
                     mc.dates_as_query_clause( datetime.date( 2013, 1, 1), datetime.date( 2014, 1, 1)))
print(words[0])  # prints the most common word
```

To find out all the details about one particular story by id:
```python
import mediacloud.api
mc = mediacloud.api.MediaCloud('MY_API_KEY')
story = mc.story(169440976)
print(story['url'])  # prints the url the story came from
```

To save the first 100 stories from one day to a database:
```python
import mediacloud.api, datetime
mc = mediacloud.api.MediaCloud('MY_API_KEY')
db = mediacloud.storage.MongoStoryDatabase('one_day')
stories = mc.storyList('*', mc.dates_as_query_clause( datetime.date (2014, 1, 1), datetime.date(2014,1,2) ),
                       last_processed_stories_id=0,rows=100)
[db.addStory(s) for s in stories]
print(db.storyCount())
```

Take a look at the test in the `mediacloud/test/` module for more detailed examples.

Development
-----------

If you are interested in adding code to this module, first clone [the GitHub repository](https://github.com/c4fcm/MediaCloud-API-Client).

## Testing

You need to create an `MC_API_KEY` envvar and set it to your API key (we use [`python-dotenv`](https://pypi.org/project/python-dotenv/)).
Then run `make test`. We run continuous integration (via [Travis](https://travis-ci.org/mitmedialab/MediaCloud-API-Client)),
so every push runs the whole test suite (we also do this nightly and on PRs). 

## Distributing a New Version

If you want to, setup [twin's keyring integration](https://pypi.org/project/twine/) to avoid typing your PyPI
password over and over. 

1. Run `make test` to make sure all the test pass
2. Update the version number in `mediacloud/__init__.py`
3. Make a brief note in the CHANGELOG.md about what changes
4. Run `make build-release` to create an install package
5. Run `make release-test` to upload it to PyPI's test platform
6. Run `make release` to upload it to PyPI