newscatcher VS fastapi-azure-auth

Built this news website for my portfolio using NewsApi.org but turns out its only got CORS enabled for localhost which I found out when I was about to publish my web page. Found and tried another API from newscatcherapi.com but it only gives me 50 API calls for the free plan which I ran out of very quickly.

I think you would benefit from a news data API like our newscatcher. We don't drill down to the state level (yet) but we do allow you to filter news by country, language, individual sources, date ranges, and you can also use a query like "fire" to search for relevant articles. And the data is returned as JSON objects, so it's pretty easy to work with.

Hi Jakub,

Nice. I want to talk to you about the news feed: it could be more than just the latest news (NLP enriched)

I'm a co-founder of https://newscatcherapi.com/

I'm so sick of top notch trading platforms to just provide a list of latest news while there could be so much more insights.

Well, if you'd want to discuss it: https://savvycal.com/newscatcher/chat

If all you care about is raw data, newscatcherapi.com is one of the best options. They already have over 60,0000 sources and readily add any sources you want to cover.

Share your startups here, and get some feedback from the HN community.

For the first time applicants: show your progress for the next batch in case you don't get accepted.

Startup: NewsCatcher

Website: https://newscatcherapi.com/

One-liner: We turn online news into machine-readable data

The Newscatcher API enables developers to find news articles from major news sources and blogs based on any topic, country, language, website, or keyword. The Newscatcher API features simple integration and niche-specific content.

Give newscatcher a try

We’re ~17k MRR right now. Being doing it for almost 2 years.

What made us take off is I and my cofounder running through our savings. I did it for ~15 months.

One thing I had to start doing earlier is not trying to get everyone buy our product (we sell news articles published online as a source of data for insight mining) [0]

I’ve lost so much time on people who’d never be able to use what we have unless we completely change our product.

And yeah, marketing is super important. And, it’s going to take some time.

[0] https://newscatcherapi.com

I'm under the impression that you work for a company that sells services related to FastAPI? https://github.com/Intility/fastapi-azure-auth

I maintain an open source library in my spare time for free, that you are welcome to ignore if you find better alternatives.

The documentation has a full tutorial in “Tiangolo-style”, which means it guided through setting up a project from scratch, and how to configure Azure appregs from scratch.

I think, in general, most FastAPI and Pydantic related libraries are heavily typed, use poetry, GitHub pipelines, black, isort, flake8 etc. so if you want to look at the ecosystem around a package I’ll recommend a few here, that has a smaller scope than the huge libraries Pydantic/FastAPI are. All packages listed below has all these things.

FastAPI-Azure-Auth [0] is a library to do authentication and authorization through Azure AD using tokens.

ASGI—Correlation-ID[1] is a package that utilizes contextvars to store information through the asyncio stack, in order to attach correlation/request ID to every log message from a request. Available for Django in [2].

Pydantic-factories [3] is an awesome library to mock data for your pydantic models.

[0] https://github.com/Intility/fastapi-azure-auth

If you want to use an external auth provider, I have written a library called FastAPI-Azure-Auth for authentication and authorization using Azure AD (which is free for something like 10.000 users). The tutorial should get you up and running quickly. Please note that this library is only intended to use for APIs (such as I sing a SPA frontend), so if you use jinja templates or render HTML from FastAPI this might not be the solution for you.

Hi! I’m the author of FastAPI-Azure-Auth, a package to handle Azure AD authentication and authorization for your FastAPI APIs. It’s a heavily tested package, supports trio, and the documentation has a full tutorial on how to set up both Azure and FastAPI from scratch.

I agree with you. Most my packages are around ~100 stars, and I'm met with a lot of respect and appreciatio.n[1][2]

My library for Correlation-IDs in Django[3] got implemented by AWX, which also was a nice experience![4] I maintain a lot of small packages, and maybe it is the Django/FastAPI community, but "you'll get a load of entitled users" is straight up not true in my experience.

[1] https://github.com/Intility/fastapi-azure-auth/issues/24

The documentation[1] contains a full tutorial on how to configure Azure AD and FastAPI for both single- and multi-tenant applications. It includes examples on how to lock down your APIs to certain scopes, tenants, roles etc.

[1] https://intility.github.io/fastapi-azure-auth/)