Query news in English via python API

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Question by ws · Nov 09, 2017 at 02:50 AM · eikon eikon-data-api workspace python workspace-data-api refinitiv-dataplatform-eikon news

Query news in English via python API

I tried the sample code to get news in German like this 'R:LHAG.DE'.

ek.get_news_headlines('R:LHAG.DE', date_from='2017-11-05T09:00:00', date_to='2017-11-08T18:00:00')

How can I get news in English ? what is the 'RIC' code for get_news_headlines func? , 'R:LANG.EN' does not work.

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Answer 1 · 2017-11-09T04:50:26Z

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Answer by pierre.faurel · Nov 09, 2017 at 04:50 AM

Basically, you're can type any news expression. You can validate the expression in Eikon then copy paste it.

For your example: when you type 'FOMC, FED, US' in News component, it's transformed to 'R:FMSAUBD.MX OR Topic:FED OR Topic:US'. Then you can copy the result in Python request:

>>> ek.get_news_headlines('R:FMSAUBD.MX OR Topic:FED OR Topic:US', date_from='2017-11-05T09:00:00', date_to='2017-11-08T18:00:00')

You can add language filter :

>>> ek.get_news_headlines('( R:FMSAUBD.MX OR Topic:FED OR Topic:US ) AND Language:LEN', date_from='2017-11-05T09:00:00', date_to='2017-11-08T18:00:00')

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Answer by Zhenya Kovalyov · Nov 09, 2017 at 02:57 AM

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R:LHAG.DE AND LEN

LHAG.DE represents the quote of Lufthansa's shares (LHAG) traded on Xetra (DE). LEN represents English as in Language - English, for news in German use LDE.

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So what symbol should I use to get news in English from Reuters original? What kind of string should I use in blank area below?

ek.get_news_headlines(' ', date_from='2017-11-05T09:00:00', date_to='2017-11-08T18:00:00')

ws · Nov 09, 2017 at 03:32 AM 0

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So what symbol should I use to get news in English from Reuters original? What kind of string should I use in blank area below?

ek.get_news_headlines(' ', date_from='2017-11-05T09:00:00', date_to='2017-11-08T18:00:00')

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Answer by pierre.faurel · Nov 09, 2017 at 03:56 AM

You can do this :

ek.get_news_headlines('R:LHAG.DE and Language:LEN', date_from='2017-11-05T09:00:00', date_to='2017-11-08T18:00:00')

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ws · Nov 09, 2017 at 04:03 AM 0

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Thanks for your quick response;

how ever what I really want to do is to get major news headlines not limitied to specific stock name, Lufthansa.

for example : how to get major news on FOMC, FED, US goverments comments?

what kind of ticker I should use to fill the 1 st argument in get_news_headlines?

@pierre.faurel,

@Zhenya Kovalyov

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