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James Bridle

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Mar 2, 2015, 9:58:28 AM3/2/15
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I'm trying to use the open platform to get a list of the top headlines.

This old blog post on the Open Platform blog suggests this should be possible: http://www.theguardian.com/open-platform/blog/new-api-features-video-editors-picks-endpoint-filters-homepage-gzip

But none of those links work any more. In fact I can't get the editors-picks to return anything anywhere.


Just gives me:

{
  • -
    response: {
    • status: "ok"
    • userTier: "developer"
    • total: 1
    • editorsPicks: [ ]
    }
}

For example.

I just want to be able to make a call and get the headlines - not the most recent stories, but the ones that are most important. Seems like this should be easier than I'm finding it?

Thanks for your help.

James

James Bridle

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Mar 2, 2015, 10:02:50 AM3/2/15
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To clarify - I want the top news headlines on the site, not in the sport section - i.e. what you see on the front page.

Mariot Chauvin

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James Bridle

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Mar 2, 2015, 2:01:33 PM3/2/15
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Thanks for the swift response on this. That does work, although it's a bit broad in what it returns (I don't want liveblogs, for example, or sport...). I've been trying to narrow it down, but what I get back is a bit confusing.

I'm trying to concentrate on World and UK news, so I tried calling by section:


This returns only the front-page headlines from the World section (rather, than as I expected, the top stories on http://www.theguardian.com/world)


This returns stories from http://www.theguardian.com/world but inconsistently. 

At time of writing, the top story on /world (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/02/iraq-assault-islamic-state-strongholds-baghdad) isn't part of the main results or editors picks?

I really appreciate your help, thanks.

Mariot Chauvin

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Mar 3, 2015, 11:26:24 AM3/3/15
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Hi James,

Please see comments below

On 2 March 2015 at 19:01, James Bridle <james...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the swift response on this. That does work, although it's a bit broad in what it returns (I don't want liveblogs, for example, or sport...). I've been trying to narrow it down, but what I get back is a bit confusing.

I'm trying to concentrate on World and UK news, so I tried calling by section:


This returns only the front-page headlines from the World section (rather, than as I expected, the top stories on http://www.theguardian.com/world)




 

This returns stories from http://www.theguardian.com/world but inconsistently. 

At time of writing, the top story on /world (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/02/iraq-assault-islamic-state-strongholds-baghdad) isn't part of the main results or editors picks?

I really appreciate your help, thanks.


I did a quick test just now (4.15 pm BST)

"editorsPicks": [{"webTitle": "Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu addresses Congress – live","webPublicationDate": "2015-03-03T16:08:01Z","sectionId": "world","id": "world/live/2015/mar/03/israeli-prime-minister-benyamin-netanyahu-address-congress-live","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/mar/03/israeli-prime-minister-benyamin-netanyahu-address-congress-live","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/world/live/2015/mar/03/israeli-prime-minister-benyamin-netanyahu-address-congress-live","sectionName": "World news"},{"webTitle": "Afghanistan officials sanctioned murder, torture and rape, says report","webPublicationDate": "2015-03-03T14:31:46Z","sectionId": "world","id": "world/2015/mar/03/afghanistan-allies-sanctioned-torture-murder-report-human-rights-watch","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/03/afghanistan-allies-sanctioned-torture-murder-report-human-rights-watch","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/world/2015/mar/03/afghanistan-allies-sanctioned-torture-murder-report-human-rights-watch","sectionName": "World news"},{"id": "world/2015/mar/03/boris-nemtsov-funeral-queue-moscow-coffin","sectionId": "world","webPublicationDate": "2015-03-03T13:25:24Z","webTitle": "Boris Nemtsov's funeral takes place in Moscow as EU condemns travel bans","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/03/boris-nemtsov-funeral-queue-moscow-coffin","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/world/2015/mar/03/boris-nemtsov-funeral-queue-moscow-coffin","sectionName": "World news"},{"webTitle": "Volcano erupts in southern Chile","webPublicationDate": "2015-03-03T13:10:49Z","sectionId": "world","id": "world/2015/mar/03/volcano-villarrica-erupts-southern-chile","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/03/volcano-villarrica-erupts-southern-chile","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/world/2015/mar/03/volcano-villarrica-erupts-southern-chile","sectionName": "World news"},{"id": "us-news/2015/mar/02/georgia-death-row-woman-executed-monday","sectionId": "us-news","webPublicationDate": "2015-03-02T17:24:19Z","webTitle": "Georgia death row woman in last-ditch bid for clemency as execution looms","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/02/georgia-death-row-woman-executed-monday","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/us-news/2015/mar/02/georgia-death-row-woman-executed-monday","sectionName": "US news"},{"id": "us-news/2015/mar/03/hillary-clinton-used-personal-email-account-for-all-government-business-report-claims","sectionId": "us-news","webPublicationDate": "2015-03-03T13:31:45Z","webTitle": "Hillary Clinton used personal email for all government business, says report","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/03/hillary-clinton-used-personal-email-account-for-all-government-business-report-claims","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/us-news/2015/mar/03/hillary-clinton-used-personal-email-account-for-all-government-business-report-claims","sectionName": "US news"},{"webTitle": "Suge Knight tells LA court he is going blind","webPublicationDate": "2015-03-03T09:17:37Z","sectionId": "music","id": "music/2015/mar/03/suge-knight-tells-la-court-he-is-going-blind","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/03/suge-knight-tells-la-court-he-is-going-blind","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/music/2015/mar/03/suge-knight-tells-la-court-he-is-going-blind","sectionName": "Music"},{"webTitle": "Three to five cups of coffee a day may prevent heart attacks, says study","webPublicationDate": "2015-03-03T08:54:32Z","sectionId": "society","id": "society/2015/mar/03/coffee-drinking-may-prevent-heart-attacks-study","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/03/coffee-drinking-may-prevent-heart-attacks-study","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/society/2015/mar/03/coffee-drinking-may-prevent-heart-attacks-study","sectionName": "Society"},{"webTitle": "Parisians carry on shopping as mass graves are exhumed below their feet","webPublicationDate": "2015-03-02T18:24:05Z","sectionId": "world","id": "world/2015/mar/02/paris-mass-graves-skeletons-monoprix-store-hospital","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/02/paris-mass-graves-skeletons-monoprix-store-hospital","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/world/2015/mar/02/paris-mass-graves-skeletons-monoprix-store-hospital","sectionName": "World news"},{"webTitle": "China investigates second top soldier in corruption probe into armed forces","webPublicationDate": "2015-03-03T13:20:36Z","sectionId": "world","id": "world/2015/mar/03/china-investigates-second-top-soldier-corruption-guo-boxiong-zhenggang-xu-caihou","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/03/china-investigates-second-top-soldier-corruption-guo-boxiong-zhenggang-xu-caihou","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/world/2015/mar/03/china-investigates-second-top-soldier-corruption-guo-boxiong-zhenggang-xu-caihou","sectionName": "World news"},{"webTitle": "FBI investigating hack of naked photos of Jennifer Lawrence and others","webPublicationDate": "2014-09-02T11:24:51Z","sectionId": "technology","id": "technology/2014/sep/02/fbi-investigating-hack-nude-celebrity-leak","webUrl": "http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/02/fbi-investigating-hack-nude-celebrity-leak","apiUrl": "http://content.guardianapis.com/technology/2014/sep/02/fbi-investigating-hack-nude-celebrity-leak","sectionName": "Technology"},
 


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It looks consistent to me. I see 2 obvious reasons that could explain temporary inconsistencies you observe:
  • you receive a cache version from our CDN of the webpage (several minutes max)
  • you receive a cache version from mashery of the API response (20 seconds max) 
Anyway whatever the reason you should consider the API response at the most up to date editor picks for a particular section.

Hope this helps.

James Bridle

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Mar 4, 2015, 6:19:34 AM3/4/15
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That all makes sense. /world with section=world looks like the closest to what I want to achieve. Thanks for your help.
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Karen Jung

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Jul 9, 2016, 7:11:28 PM7/9/16
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Hi James,

Did you use Python for this? Is there any way to just display all the headlines without all the other junk surrounding it ?

Thank you,

Karen


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