Juicer Client

The API client for the BBC News Labs Juicer API.

NOTE: the Juicer is an experiment run by the BBC News Labs. The API may change without notice, there are no uptime, reliability guarantees. Please take this as experimental sofware in front of experimental API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'juicer-client'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install juicer-client

Usage

Using the library is very simple. You'll need to obtain an API key from BBC Developer Portal by signing up and registering a new app for the bbcrd-juicer-apis product in the API listing.

Once you have obtained an API key and have installed the gem, you can use it by requiring the juicer library and instantiating it with your API key:

require 'juicer'

juicer = Juicer.new("<your API key>")

Have a look at the documentation for the library on how to filter articles, find similar content, etc.

juicer.products
=> ["NewsWeb", "Twitter", "Monitoring", "TheMirror", "Jupiter", "TheGuardian", ...]

juicer.articles({text: "London",
                 product: ["NewsWeb"],
                 published_after: "2014-10-14"})
=> [{"title"=>"London Market Report",
     "description"=>"London Market Report",
     "cps_id"=>"news_web_0962731f8c375d5096590ca38cee96e0e408180d",
     "published"=>"2014-10-14T08:14:07.000Z",
     "url"=>"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29610241#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa",
     "highlight"=>false,
     "source"=>"NewsWeb",
     "format"=>"TextualFormat",
     "image"=>nil,
     "themes"=>[],
     "people"=>[],
     "places"=>[],
     "organisations"=>[{"kind"=>"Organisation", "name"=>"Burberry", ..}]},
    {...}]

juicer.similar_articles("news_web_0962731f8c375d5096590ca38cee96e0e408180d")
=> [{"score"=>1.8277457,
     "title"=>"Mulberry profit warning hits shares",
     "cps_id"=>"20038835",
     "created_at"=>"2012-10-23T12:58:45.247Z",
     "published_at"=>"2012-10-23T11:57:37Z",
     "url"=>"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20038835"},
    {...}]

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/BBC-News-Labs/juicer-client/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request