Eikon Extension or Plugin Support

chris179

I am exploring the feasibility of developing an application that will focus on extracting keyword/topic defined News headlines from the Eikon desktop.

My development resource has posed the following questions:

What mechanisms exists in Eikon desktop, to write extensions or plugins that either adds HTML, CSS and JavaScript to the browser view used by the desktop client when presenting news headlines?

Is there another mechanism to write a separate service or app, that can communicate with Eikon desktop and extract content using an SDK? What programming languages can be used for such plugins or for software that communicates with the Eikon desktop client?

Thanks in advance.

Alex Putkov.1

@chris179
If I understand your question correctly, all you're looking to do is retrieve news from Eikon into your own application, right? In this case Eikon Data APIs provide this capability. See the following tutorial for details.
https://developers.thomsonreuters.com/eikon-apis/eikon-data-apis/learning?content=15351&type=learning_material_item

Zhenya Kovalyov

Hi @chris179, there is no way to inject your code to be executed in the native applications. What you describe is theoretically possible with either the Side-by-side API (out-of-process Eikon interop) or App Studio (in-process Eikon interop, basically, lets you create your own app running inside Eikon), however, in both cases the News App must support emitting its expression in a context change message, which it currently does not.

chris179

Thanks you both for your responses.