CNN Content Retriever

A package designed to wrap Apple News's Push API

• [createReference]
• [deleteArticle]
• [deleteReference]
• [getArticle]
• [getChannel]
• [getChannelArticles]
• [getSection]
• [getSections]
• [notificationPost]
• [search]
• [sendArticle]
• [sendRequest]
• [updateReference]

Requirements

Read these "requirements" as "only tested with".

• Node.js 7.x+

Install

$ npm install --save --save-exact cnn-antools-push-api

The --save-exact is up to you. We recommend saving exact versions.

Ruby 2.1.2p95+

I will be requeired that the calling application have the apple ruby papi client installed

Usage

This is intended to be used as a dependency in a larger application. Refer to the the below example and the real example.js, that you can run with node example/example.js.

'use strict';
 
const PushApi = require('cnn-antools-push-api'),
    pushApi = new PushApi('<channelId>', '<apiKeyId>', '<apiKeySecret>', 'https://news-api.apple.com', '</path/to/papi/>'),
    articleData = {
        articleId: 'articleId of existing article or undefined',
        revision: 'revision id is this is update or undefined',
        articleStatus: '<add or update>',
        savePath: '<local directory Path for folder that holds the article.json>',
        sectionIds: '<sectionId>,<sectionId>,...',
        isCandidateToBeFeatured: false,
        isDevelopingStory: false
    };
 
pushApi.sendArticle(articleData)
    .then((stdout) => {
        console.log(`This is the published article ${stdout}`);
    })
    .catch((err) => {
        console.log(`some Problem happened: ${err}`);
    });
 
 
pushApi.deleteArticle('<articleId').then((result) => {
    console.log(`Article deleted: ${result}`);
}).catch((result) => {
    console.error(`DELETE article error: ${JSON.stringify(result.error)}`);
    console.error(`DELETE article body: ${result.body}`);
});
 
});

ESDoc Documentation

You can generate and view the docs locally with the commands below. The open command will only work on MacOS.

$ npm run generate-docs
$ open docs/index.html

NPM scripts

• generate-authors - Generates AUTHORS.md.
• generate-changelog - Generates output to put in CHANGELOG.md.
• generate-coverage - Generates a code coverage report in /coverage.
• generate-docs - Generates ESDoc documentation in /docs.
• test - Runs all tests.
• update-apply - Updates package.json with dependency updates.
• update-check - Outputs if any dependency updates are needed.

Environment variables

• DEBUG=cnn-antools-push-api:* - Set to enable visible debug logging to console.

Developer notes

• Always develop on the node version specified in the .nvmrc file. If nvm is used typing nvm install in the terminal will insure the correct version is used.

• Contributors should be familiar with the Contributors Guide

• Collaborators should be familiar with the Collaborator Guide

• The current Project Owner (PO) of this project is Alex Sover (@dsover).

Licensing

See LICENSE.md for details.

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