Course Overview

Learn about what we will cover in this course and how we’ll be moving forward.

We'll cover the following

News API enables us to fetch generic news so that we’re able to stay up-to-date. We can also get news about a specific topic. This course is a complete guide to integrating News API into an application or website to get news articles.

To get the most out of this course, you should be familiar with:

  • The concept of APIs.
  • The most basic HTTP request, the GET request.
  • The basics of the Python language.

Note: For this course, we’ll use Python to test the API endpoints.

Below, you can find a roadmap that we’ll follow throughout this course:

  • Get introduced to News API and its services.
  • Learn how to create a profile on the News API website and get the API key.
  • Get familiar with the API endpoints and test them with different query parameters.
  • Interact with a demo application to get a better idea of how we can use this API.