Apple News

The Apple News Connector provides automated access to the Apple News API.

• Prerequisites
• Scheduling
• Parameters
• Sample Switchboard Script

Prerequisites

You will need to create a Key with following properties:

Key ID

You can request the Key ID in the Settings tab in News Publisher.

Key Secret

N.B. The secret is shown only when it’s first issued

Channel ID

You can request the Key ID in the Settings tab in News Publisher.

For more details on these properties the Apple News Publisher User Guide.

Scheduling

The Apple News connector can be scheduled to ingest data once per day at a user-defined hour and timezone.

By default, the connector will run once at 6am PT.

See Daily Scheduling for more information.

Parameters

report_type list of strings

required

ARTICLE_DETAIL, CHANNEL_SUMMARY , MEDIA, NOTIFICATIONS

territory list of strings

optional

US, AU , CA, GB

Sample Switchboard Script

download apple_news from {
  type: "apple_news";
  key: "apple_news_key";
  report_type: "MEDIA"; // required
  territory: "US";  // optional
} using { * };