Media Cloud Online News Archive - API Tutorial Notebooks

A set up Python3 Jupyter notebooks for learning to use the Media Cloud API to investigate media coverage online. These are tailored to be used with Jupyter Lab.

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Run on Your Own Machine.

If you want to use these on your local machine:

1. Install Python >= 3.10.
2. Setup Jupyter Notebooks (if you are new try Anaconda with JupyterLab).
3. Sign up for a Media Cloud account to obtain an API key.

Changelog

• 2023-12-12: major updates to match v4.1.0 of the API client
• 2022-09-07: update requirements to latest versions
• 2020-06-03: first public release for ICWSM 2020 conference tutorial session

Acknowledgements

These were originally created by Rahul Bhargava to support of a tutorial session we ran at the virtual ICWSM 2020 conference. The following folks provided ideas and feedback on these tutorials:

• Aashka Dave
• Orestis Papakyriakopoulos
• Dennis Jen
• Hal Roberts