News APIs

Enriched crypto-specific news API feed with sentiment signals by currency

Uptick's news feed is collected from over 30K news sources. Aggregated, parsed, cleaned, and enriched per currency for a unified data stream. Our proprietary algorithms derive sentiment for articles and calculate the sentiment index on a bullish and bearish scale.

1. News Feed API

Gets detailed news articles, aggregate news sentiment, and sentiment by article for currencies

GET https://api.uptick.co/api/news

Query Parameters

Name
Type
Description

currency*

STRING

The coin (or comma-separated list of coins) for which to fetch news articles

interval*

INTEGER

The number of milliseconds to look back and average sentiment- defaults to 7776000000 (which is 90 days). Pass -1 to avoid time filtering completely

limit

INTEGER

The number of records to find and return

text

STRING

A substring that must be present in returned articles

min_mention_count

INTEGER

The minimum number of times a coin must be mentioned in an article

primary_coin

BOOLEAN

If this flag is set, returns results only if the desired coin is mentioned more frequently than other coins in the text

source

STRING

The source of the news article (Coindesk for example)

relevance

FLOAT

The minimum relevance-model score for results; the relevance model assigns a 0-1 value based on how focused on crypto an article is. Defaults to 0.6

sort_by

STRING

Field to use in sorting- defaults to sorting by time. coin_relevance is currently the only other option

fields

STRING

A comma separated list of the fields to return in the results. Can be set to * to see all fields

Headers

Name
Type
Description

api_key*

STRING

API key of customer account

[
  {
    "source": {
      "id": {},
      "name": "Cointelegraph"
    },
    "_id": "629ee39379261658f177f821",
    "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/news/longer-term-bitcoin-holder-losses-hit-two-year-lows",
    "RelevanceModel": 0.9999999999911264,
    "author": "Cointelegraph By Brian Newar",
    "collected_at": "2022-06-07T05:35:16.128Z",
    "description": "Bitcoin’s long-term holders are beginning to suffer losses matching those from previous bear markets, and Glassnode believes the pain may continue, and even get worse.",
    "title": "Longer-term Bitcoin holder losses hit two year lows",
    "MESentimentModel": 0.16335045675452212
  },
  {
    "source": {
      "id": {},
      "name": "Cointelegraph"
    },
    "_id": "629ec78f7926165e0d595f01",
    "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/news/two-more-spot-crypto-etfs-launch-on-australian-markets",
    "RelevanceModel": 0.9999999999999998,
    "author": "Cointelegraph By Jesse Coghlan",
    "collected_at": "2022-06-07T03:35:44.086Z",
    "description": "Two cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds tracking the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) launched in Australia on the Cboe Exchange joining the existing funds by 21Shares and Cosmos Asset Management.",
    "title": "Two more spot crypto ETFs launch on Australian markets",
    "MESentimentModel": 0.564157890660442
  },
  {
    "source": {
      "id": {},
      "name": "Cointelegraph"
    },
    "_id": "629eb8b07926167611130b24",
    "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/news/indonesia-licensed-crypto-asset-platform-pintu-raises-113m-in-series-b",
    "RelevanceModel": 0.9999999999999998,
    "author": "Cointelegraph By Arijit Sarkar",
    "collected_at": "2022-06-07T02:35:44.543Z",
    "description": "The latest $113 million fund injection will be redirected to scale the platform’s existing offerings, such as introducing new features and added support for blockchains.",
    "title": "Indonesia-licensed crypto asset platform Pintu raises $113M in Series B",
    "MESentimentModel": 0.9045813009358251
  }
]

2. News Sentiment API

Retrieve average news sentiment for a currency

GET https://api.uptick.co/api/news-sentiment

Query Parameters

Name
Type
Description

currency*

STRING

The currency (or comma-separated list of currencies) for which to fetch average sentiment- expects a symbol like BTC

interval*

INTEGER

The number of milliseconds to look back and average sentiment- defaults to 604800000 (which is one week)

Headers

Name
Type
Description

api_key

STRING

API key of customer account

[
{ "_id": { "currency": "BTC" }, "avgSentiment": 0.6027129670844735 },
{ "_id": { "currency": "ETH" }, "avgSentiment": 0.6833787754969072 }
 ]

3. News Article Count Timeseries API

Retrieve historical count of news articles for a currency

GET https://api.uptick.co/api/ncount-series

Query Parameters

Name
Type
Description

currency*

STRING

The currency for which to fetch count values- expects a symbol like BTC

Headers

Name
Type
Description

API_KEY*

STRING

API key of customer account

[
  {
    "_id": "629eaeaa792616016c6878b8",
    "currency": "BTC",
    "date": "2022-06-07T00:00:00.000Z",
    "count": 130
  },
  {
    "_id": "629d5c08792616400616e833",
    "currency": "BTC",
    "date": "2022-06-06T00:00:00.000Z",
    "count": 108
  },
  {
    "_id": "629c0b347926165e50516033",
    "currency": "BTC",
    "date": "2022-06-05T00:00:00.000Z",
    "count": 360
  }
]

4. News Sentiment Timeseries API

Retrieve historical sentiment of news articles for a currency

GET https://api.uptick.co/api/nsen-series

Query Parameters

Name
Type
Description

currency

STRING

The currency for which to fetch sentiment values- expects a symbol like BTC

Headers

Name
Type
Description

API_KEY

STRING

API key of customer account

[
  {
    "_id": "629eaeaa792616016c6878c7",
    "currency": "BTC",
    "date": "2022-06-07T00:00:00.000Z",
    "sentiment": 0.6055613484891158
  },
  {
    "_id": "629d5c08792616400616e841",
    "currency": "BTC",
    "date": "2022-06-06T00:00:00.000Z",
    "sentiment": 0.6011647159980866
  },
  {
    "_id": "629c0b357926165e50516041",
    "currency": "BTC",
    "date": "2022-06-05T00:00:00.000Z",
    "sentiment": 0.6404868679951908
  }
]

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