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Re: Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

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The core of the product is a third party lib Newspaper3k. Not sure I would want to pay for the Flask wrapper.

Yeah, that is a product for those who need it deployed and ready to use.

For devs, I open-sourced the full code.

Also, one thing to understand is that it can be quite expensive for some companies to deploy it. They might need servers, developers, testers, etc. In some cases, it is just cheaper to buy it.

Re: Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

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post #10

The core of the product is a third party lib Newspaper3k. Not sure I would want to pay for the Flask wrapper.

Interestingly I revisited the repo for news3k and it seems to be inactive with 300+issues, 70+ open PR's, last commit 12 months ago...

Re: Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

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post #12
post #10

The core of the product is a third party lib Newspaper3k. Not sure I would want to pay for the Flask wrapper.

Interestingly I revisited the repo for news3k and it seems to be inactive with 300+issues, 70+ open PR's, last commit 12 months ago...

How is this different from GDELT https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-2-0-our-global-world-in-...

Re: Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

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Curious what the economics are there in working like this?

* What is the market size of developers companies that pay to have such wrapper APIs?

* What would pricing for something like this look like?

* What is the hit / miss ratio of API ideas?

I was thinking of putting together datasets and listing on similar marketplaces. Anyone have any information to share on this?

Re: Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

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Curious what the economics are there in working like this? * What is the market size of developers companies that pay to have such wrapper APIs? * What would pricing for something like this look like? * What is the hit / miss ratio of API ideas? I was thinking of putting together datasets and listing on similar marketplaces. Anyone have any information to share on this?

I googled a put together a few similar services (not affiliated ) and it seems like pricing varies quite a lot paid package start at 150 to 449 per month (all provide free service though).

1) https://currentsapi.services/en

2) https://contextualweb.io/news-api/

3) https://webhose.io/products/news-feeds/

4) https://aylien.com/news-api/

Re: Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

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post #12
post #10

The core of the product is a third party lib Newspaper3k. Not sure I would want to pay for the Flask wrapper.

Interestingly I revisited the repo for news3k and it seems to be inactive with 300+issues, 70+ open PR's, last commit 12 months ago...

Damn, yeah that's pretty unloved. Weirdly the developer is still advertising consulting services for the project and allowing donations.

Given how popular the project is and the owner's absence, community ownership seems like a no-brainer.

Re: Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly I revisited the repo for news3k and it seems to be inactive with 300+issues, 70+ open PR's, last commit 12 months ago...

How is this different from GDELT https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-2-0-our-global-world-in-...

it is totally different. You cannot do any of what my code does with GDELT products.

Re: Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly I revisited the repo for news3k and it seems to be inactive with 300+issues, 70+ open PR's, last commit 12 months ago...

Damn, yeah that's pretty unloved. Weirdly the developer is still advertising consulting services for the project and allowing donations. Given how popular the project is and the owner's absence, community ownership seems like a no-brainer.

I'm using newspaper for a new project and this has me wondering how hard it would be to either fork it or create a new repo and let the community run it... hrmm. For me it's not pressing right now but if it really stays stagnant then maybe.

Re: Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles

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I was looking for something like this. But with add-on to summarize the news text as close as human. Any idea???

Hey man. Yeah, text summarization sucks a lot at the moment. I would say there is no such product at the moment. None I am aware about, at least
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