Newsfeed & Why is it Moving v2
This REST API returns structured data for news items as well as Why is it Moving (WIIM) content.
Best Practices
For optimal performance, we have a few recommendations.
Limit query, improve performance
Limiting the scope of the query will directly improve the latency of the API. This can be accomplished by using parameters such as tickers, date, and channels, or (preferably) by using updatedSince for deltas.
The full list of News channels can be found in this endpoint: https://www.benzinga.com/api/v2/channels
Using Deltas
A common pattern is to use a delta to query for the latest change in a dataset. By reducing the amount of data available in the query, it will produce results with the least amount of latency and limited data an application will have to traverse.
In our case, we recommend tracking and querying by the latest updated timestamp.
One caveat to allow for some latency and second-only timestamps: when querying, set updatedSince to a value 5 seconds earlier than you actually want. A query may look like: /news?updatedSince=LAGGED_TIMESTAMP Where LAGGED_TIMESTAMP is set to be five seconds less than the maximum value of the updated field (converted to a Unix timestamp) in rows already pulled from our API.
FAQs
Authentication
Include the API key in either query or header
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