A simple Python module that wraps the meduza.io API.


Keywords
meduza, media, wrapper, russia, english, russian, python
License
MIT
Install
pip install meduza==18.7

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Meduza

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A simple Python module that wraps the meduza.io API. (read about Meduza on Buzzfeed)

Installation

pip install meduza

Usage

Get an article:

>>> url = "https://meduza.io/en/brief/2018/07/16/the-real-russia-today"

>>> article = meduza.get(url)

>>> article["title"]
'The Real Russia. Today.'

>>> article["second_title"]
"Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki, the ‘Deep State’ consensus, and Pussy Riot's heart-to-heart with the police"

Get the latest articles on this section:

# English version:

>>> for article in meduza.section('news', n=3, lang='en'): 
...     print(f" - '{article['title']}'")
 - 'Chechnya’s ruler has a stable full of prize-winning race horses, but you’d never know it, looking at his income declarations'
 - 'Russian musicians are being forced to cancel their concerts across the country, which makes now the perfect time to listen to their music'
 - 'The Real Russia. Today.'


# Russian version:

>>> for article in meduza.section('news', n=3, lang='ru'):
...     print(f" - '{article['title']}'")
 - 'Путина спросили про пенсионную реформу. Он ответил, что ему все не нравится'
 - 'В Екатеринбурге открыли барельеф с «условными» Дзержинским и Сталиным (или Кагановичем)'
 - 'Новая иллюзия: круги, раскрашенные в четыре разных цвета (на самом деле нет)'

Search articles by key words:

# English version:

>>> for article in meduza.search('Indigenous', n=3, lang='en'):
...     print(f" - '{article['title']}'")
 - 'Indigenous scholar commits self-immolation in Ural city to protest language death'
 - '‘This is the land of our ancestors’'
 - 'Trial by fire'


# Russian version:

>>> for article in meduza.search('языка коренного', n=3, lang='ru'):
...     print(f" - '{article['title']}'")
 - 'Острова Кука собрались сменить название'
 - 'Последний аргумент в длинном споре'
 - 'При пожаре в Национальном музее Бразилии погиб архив языков коренных народов. Некоторые из них больше никто не знает'

You can find available tags and sections in constants:

>>> meduza.EN_SECTIONS
'news'

>>> meduza.EN_TAGS
('news', 'like it or not', 'games')

>>> meduza.RU_SECTIONS
('news', 'articles', 'shapito', 'razbor', 'games', 'podcasts')

>>> meduza.RU_TAGS
('новости', 'истории', 'разбор', 'шапито', 'игры', 'подкасты', 'партнерский материал')