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Episode 1: Building an App Using the News API

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Our Expert: Zach Walchuk


Developer Evangelist, AlchemyAPI and Watson Developer Cloud

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What will be covered today?

Overview of the Cognitive News API (AlchemyData News)

Sample Application Sample Call Live Demo Q&A


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Overview AlchemyData News collects and enhances

around 300,000 news articles every day The full set of AlchemyLanguage NLP enrichments

are available as fields in your query and your output

For more information on making calls to the News service, see our Cognitive News episode of Alchemist Hour


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Sample Application: Who's in the News

Find recent mentions of celebrities using an AlchemyData News Query

For disambiguated celebrities, use DBpedia link to grab a thumbnail

Display photos with links to the articles in which the celebrities are mentioned


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Sample Call


https://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/data/GetNews?outputMode=json&start=now-1h&end=now&count=25&q.enriched.url.enrichedTitle.entities.entity=|type=person,disambiguated.dbpedia=dbpedia|&return=enriched.url.enrichedTitle.entities.entity.disambiguated,enriched.url.title,enriched.url.url,enriched.url.enrichedTitle.entities.entity.type&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

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Sample Response


{"source": {

"enriched": {"url": {

"enrichedTitle": {"entities": [

{"disambiguated": {

"dbpedia": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jeb_Bush","name": "Jeb Bush","subType": [

"Politician","Governor","PoliticalAppointer",],

"website": "http://www.jeb.org"},

"type": "Person"}

]},

"title": "Jeb Bush offers plan to repeal, replace ACA: 9 things to know","url": "http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/jeb-bush-offers-

plan-to-repeal-replace-aca-9-things-to-know.html"}

}}

}

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Are you ready to get started?

Get more examples from the Watson App Gallery The AlchemyData News docs can be found here Host your applications on IBM Bluemix and get full access

to all Watson Developer Cloud services Join us for more discussion on Slack: go to http://wdc-

slack-inviter.mybluemix.net/ for an invite


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Q&A


Whats next?

Further discussion on Slack

Follow up email

The series continues bi-weekly on Wednesdays @ 12pm ET / 9am PT

October 28th: Taking Speech to a New Level of Intelligence with Watsons Language Services


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