How to get the contents on the PDF for News Story?

mika.kosaka01

Some of news stories are linked to the PDF files start with "https://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/" or " cpurl://views.cp./newsfile/getnewsfile/" without any body.

e.g. storyId = 'urn:newsml:reuters.com:20260811:nASX8TmPfj:1'

The client is asking how to retrieve the PDF file or how to get the contents n the PDF with Python?

Thanks in advance.

Jirapongse

@mika.kosaka01

Thank you for reaching out to us.

If the client uses CodeBook, it does not allow users to access external websites.

The client can run the following code in the local Jupyter enviornment to download that file.

import httpx
import lseg.data as ld
from lseg.data.content import news

ld.open_session()

response = news.story.Definition("urn:newsml:reuters.com:20260811:nASX8TmPfj:1").get_data()
raw_news = response.data.raw

url = raw_news['newsItem']['contentSet']['inlineData'][0]['$']
output_file = "test.pdf"

with httpx.stream("GET", url, follow_redirects=True) as response:
    response.raise_for_status()

    with open(output_file, "wb") as f:
        for chunk in response.iter_bytes():
            f.write(chunk)

print(f"Downloaded: {output_file}")