getting news topic name

ryan.liu

Hello,

1. I want to get the topic name(such as TECH) through the news storyid (I retrieved this by get_news_headlines ). Should I using the topic_code field?
2. Is there any way for me to get the topic list for a certain category of news? And is there a full list of topic for all news?

Thank you!

Jirapongse

@ryan.liu

Thank you for reaching out to us.

Are you using the Eikon Data API? This API is outdated. It is better to use the LSEG Data Library for Python instead. Please refer to this Upgrade from using Eikon Data API to the Data library article. The examples are on GitHub.

You can use the news module in the content layer to get the raw responses. For example:

response = news.headlines.Definition(query = 'Topic:TECH', count = 10).get_data()
response.data.raw

The raw response will contain {"_qcode": "B:278"} which represents Topic:TECH.

If you are using the LSEG Workspace, you can contact the Workspace support team via LSEG Support to get the list of news topics or codes.