I'm hoping to obtain the top news data from Refinitiv through API/python. Im basing my code on the example provided in the Codebook under News. How do i get the data for top news without specifying the RICs want.

this is my current code:

rd.open_session()

dNow = datetime.now().date()

maxenddate = dNow - timedelta(days=7) #upto months=15

compNews = pd.DataFrame()

riclist = ['AAPL.O'] # can also use Peers, Customers, Suppliers, Monitor, Portfolio to build universe

for ric in riclist:

try:

cHeadlines = rd.news.get_headlines("R:" + ric + " AND Language:LEN AND Source:RTRS", start= str(dNow),

end = str(maxenddate), count = 10)

cHeadlines['cRIC'] = ric

if len(compNews):

compNews = pd.concat([compNews,cHeadlines])

else:

compNews = cHeadlines

except Exception:

pass

compNews

baseurl = "/data/news/v1/stories/"

fullcodelist = pd.DataFrame()

compNews['storyText'] = str()

compNews['q_codes'] = str()

compNews['pIDs_mentioned'] = str()

compNews['RICs_mentioned'] = str()

compNews['urgency'] = str()

for i, uri in enumerate(compNews['storyId']):

request_definition = rd.delivery.endpoint_request.Definition(

url = baseurl + uri,

method = rd.delivery.endpoint_request.RequestMethod.GET

)

response = request_definition.get_data()

time.sleep(0.1)

rawr = response.data.raw

if 'newsItem' in rawr.keys():

compNews['storyText'][i] = rawr['newsItem']['contentSet']['inlineData']['$']

topics = rawr['newsItem']['contentMeta']['subject']

rics = [x for x in rawr['newsItem']['assert'] if x['_qcode'].startswith("R:")]

compNews['q_codes'][i] = [d['_qcode'] for d in topics]

compNews['pIDs_mentioned'][i] = [x for x in compNews['q_codes'][i] if x.startswith("P:")]

compNews['RICs_mentioned'][i] = [d['_qcode'] for d in rics]

compNews['urgency'] = rawr['newsItem']['contentMeta']['urgency']['$'] # 1 = hot, 3 = regular

rd.close_session()