How to use get_news_headlines() querying for FDA?

daniele.colombo21

In News Monitor I see that US FDA is tagged as "P:[U S Food and Drug Administration]". I'm trying to use this value into the query parameter of ek.get_news_headlines() but it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?

Jirapongse

@daniele.colombo21

You can try 'P:[U S Food and Drug Administration]', as shown below.

df = ek.get_news_headlines('P:[U S Food and Drug Administration]')

The output is:

Currently, the get_news_headlines method can only get headlines from the News Wires source.

If you would like to add double quotes to a query, you need to use the '\' characters, as shown below.

news = ek.get_news_headlines('R:.SPX AND \\"TRUMP\\"')

nick.zincone

Hi @daniele.colombo21

It will be helpful if you provide a screenshot of the News Monitor and what you are querying and an example of the get_news_headlines() API call you are using.

daniele.colombo21

Thank you for your help. See below screenshot of News Monitor:

And another one when I click to expand the topic:

Finally an example query (I've tried various flavours though, with and without double quote escapes, square brackets, etc):

ek.get_news_headlines(query='""P:[U S Food and Drug Administration]""', count=10)

Which returns error

daniele.colombo21

Thank you, for some reason yesterday this same query was returning an error, now it works fine.

nick.zincone

Hi @daniele.colombo21

If you use the strategic API (Refinitiv Data Library for Python), you can optionally access additional news sources. For example:

import refinitiv.data as rd
from refinitiv.data import eikon as ek

...

# Default Source: News Wire
ek.get_news_headlines(query='P:[U S Food and Drug Administration]')

# News Room Source
ek.get_news_headlines(query='P:[U S Food and Drug Administration]',
                      repository='NewsRoom')

# Web News Source
ek.get_news_headlines(query='P:[U S Food and Drug Administration]',
                      repository='WebNews')