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News API: Extracting News Headlines and Articles

News plays an essential role in our daily life. Whether you want to create your own news website, or carry out a data analysis project, there is often a need to fetch different types of news articles or headlines to aggregate the news from different sources at one place or analyze them. Applications can be many, and fortunately, there is a way to retrieve the news articles from the web, from different sources and the same time.

In this tutorial you will learn how to extract news headlines and articles using the News API and save them to a CSV file.

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Create a Translator Using Google Sheets API & Python

Spreadsheets are among the most popular office utilities in the world. Almost all professions use spreadsheets for a wide of ranger reasons, from tallying numbers and displaying them in graphs to doing unit conversions, just to mention a few.

Google Sheets is one of the more popular spreadsheet applications available today. Backed up by the Google platform, it has some nifty features that make it stand from its competitors.

In this tutorial,  you will learn how to use the power of Google Sheets API and Python to build a simple language translator.

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Scraping Tweets and Performing Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment Analysis is a special case of text classification where users’ opinions or sentiments regarding a product are classified into predefined categories such as positive, negative, neutral etc.  Public sentiments can then be used for corporate decision making regarding a product which is being liked or disliked by the public.

Both rule-based and statistical techniques have been developed for sentimental analysis.  With the advancements in Machine Learning and natural language processing techniques, Sentiment Analysis techniques have improved a lot.

In this tutorial, you will see how Sentiment Analysis can be performed on live Twitter data. The tutorial is divided into two major sections: Scraping Tweets from Twitter and Performing Sentiment Analysis.

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Postman REST API Client: Getting Started

REST technology is generally preferred to the more robust Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) technology because REST leverages less bandwidth, making it more suitable for internet usage.

REST APIs are all around us these days. Almost every major service provider on the internet  provides some kind of REST API. There are so many REST clients available that can be used to interact with these APIs and test requests before writing your code. Postman, is one of the world’s leading API Development Environment (ADE) with so many features baked in.

In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to use Postman to make API calls with and without authorization.

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Twitter API: Extracting Tweets with Specific Phrase

Twitter has been a good source for Data Mining. Many data scientists and analytics companies collect tweets and analyze them to understand people’s opinion about some matters.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Twitter API and Python Tweepy library to search for a word or phrase and extract tweets that include it and print the results.

Note: This tutorial is different from our other Twitter API tutorial in that the current one uses Twitter Streaming API which fetches live tweets while the other tutorial uses the cursor method to search existing tweets. You can use the cursor to specify the language and tweet limit and you can also filter retweets using cursor.

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Searching GitHub Using Python & GitHub API

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git. It is mostly used for storing and sharing computer source code. It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git as well as adding its own features.

GitHub stores more than 3 million repositories with more than 1.7 million developers using it daily. With so much data, it can be quite daunting at first to find information one needs or do repetitive tasks, and that is when GitHub API comes handy.

In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to use GitHub API to search for repositories and files that much particular keywords(s) and retrieve their URLs using Python. You will learn also how to download files or a specific folder from a GitHub repository.

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Amazon S3 with Python Boto3 Library

Amazon S3 is the Simple Storage Service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for object based file storage. With the increase of Big Data Applications and cloud computing, it is absolutely necessary that all the “big data” shall be stored on the cloud for easy processing over the cloud applications.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Amazon S3 service via the Python library Boto3. You will learn how to create S3 Buckets and Folders, and how to upload and access files to and from S3 buckets. Eventually, you will have a Python code that you can run on EC2 instance and access your data on the cloud while it is stored on the cloud.

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Extracting YouTube Comments with YouTube API & Python

YouTube is the world’s largest video-sharing site with about 1.9 billion monthly active users. People use it to share info, teach, entertain, advertise and much more.

So YouTube has so much data that one can utilize to carry out research and analysis. For example, extracting YouTube video comments can be useful to run Sentiment Analysis and other Natural Language Processing tasks. YouTube API enables you to search for videos matching specific search criteria.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to extract comments from YouTube videos and store them in a CSV file using Python. It will cover setting up a project on Google console, enabling the necessary YouTube API and finally writing the script that interacts with the YouTube API.

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Google Places API: Extracting Location Data & Reviews

Google places API allows developers to access a wealth of information from Google’s database for over 100 million places including location data, contact information, user ratings and reviews and more.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a reusable class to read and extract location related information from Google Places API. This tutorial will help you if you want to extract business’s name, address, phone number, website, and reviews.

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Yelp Fusion API tutorial

Yelp Fusion API is a REST API that gives access to information across 50 million businesses across countries.

In this tutorial, you will be learning how to use the Yelp API to search businesses by providing their names, locations or phone numbers. You will also learn to match businesses in a given location to check their availability. You will be using the requests library of Python, Requests and JSON library to parse the JSON response of data.

This tutorial covers the following features of the Yelp API: Business Search, Reviews Search, Phone Search, and Business Match.

Finally, there will be a practical project to help you use Yelp API in a real-life case.

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