newscatcher VS their.news

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

Exactly. The biases are per news source and actually constant: https://github.com/Hadjimina/perspectiveNews/blob/0c4c6a932a...

I'm sure they are eventually updated, but making a general judgment per news source to show individual articles means it will occasionally be wrong and misleading for the reader. The name alone, "their media", suggests an us vs. them mentality that we could use less of these days.

For once I think machine learning would be suitable for this. Have something like GPT-3 process individual articles and produce a bias number. I think this is how https://www.improvethenews.org/ works, and at a quick glance, does a much better job at classifying.

But honestly? We shouldn't bother. Consume every new information with a critical mind, and don't expect editorials to do the thinking for you. There are no bias sliders for social media posts, where most information comes from these days, and we need to teach critical thinking instead of picking what we want to agree with or not.