The Currents API Tech Blog https://currentsapi.github.io Over the past 2 years we have been using a mixture of existing open source content extraction such as newspaper3k, dragnet to ingest news. However each library only handles a particular case well, for example dragnet can handle content extraction in a wide varienty of forms due to its machine... Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:00:00 +0800 https://currentsapi.github.io/en/blog/2021/02/11/introduce-extractnet/.html https://currentsapi.github.io/en/blog/2021/02/11/introduce-extractnet/.html Recently we have increased the quota for free accounts from 20 to 600 daily call. This increase will allows developers on free account to use our API on a much wider application such as break down of news headlines or trend detection. We are currently working on more features and... Sun, 27 Oct 2019 01:00:00 +0800 https://currentsapi.github.io/en/blog/2019/10/27/Increase-usage-quota/.html https://currentsapi.github.io/en/blog/2019/10/27/Increase-usage-quota/.html In the complex world of web development, as the popularity of frontend framework such as React and Vue increase, Python is left to exist to be the language of a backend framework such as Flask and Django. Django is a fullstack web framework with built in ORM, user management, template... Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:00:00 +0800 https://currentsapi.github.io/en/blog/2019/03/27/python-microframework-benchmark/.html https://currentsapi.github.io/en/blog/2019/03/27/python-microframework-benchmark/.html What is news scraping News scraping is the process of collecting news articles from websites for the purpose of creating a dataset or for other purposes such as data analysis or reporting. This is typically done using specialized software or scripts that are designed to extract the relevant information from... Fri, 15 Feb 2019 02:00:00 +0800 https://currentsapi.github.io/en/blog/2019/02/15/state-of-news-scraping/.html https://currentsapi.github.io/en/blog/2019/02/15/state-of-news-scraping/.html