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Topic Module

Topics provide a level of disambiguation and curation in addition to a normal keyword search. E.g. searches for the climate change topic can return articles about global warming as well.

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Topic Object Attributes

name

Name of the Topic

description

A brief description of the topic from Wikipedia

image_url

Thumbnail of the topic

classification

Classification of the topic. Valid values are Disease, Theme, Industry, Product, Company, Organization, Place, Event, and Person.

subclassification

Subclassification of the topic. Examples include Politician, NFL Player as subclassification of a Person or Venture Capital Firm as a sublclassification of Company.

guid

Globally unique identifier of the topic

link

URL of the Wikipedia entry for the topic


Topic Object Resources

Topic

Returns the topic specified by the given GUID.

Topic Articles

Returns a list of articles related to the specified topic.

Topic Images

Returns images related to the specified topic.

Trending Topics

Returns a list of the current most popular topics related to the query string.

Search Topics

Search for a specific topic.

Topic Sources

Returns a list of sources that cover the specified topic.

Topic Videos

Returns a list of videos related to the specified topic.

Related Topics

Returns a list of topics related to the specified topic.

Extract Related Topics

Returns a list of topics extracted from the supplied query.

Related Tweets

Returns a list of real-time tweets about the specified topic.

Topic Stories

Returns the top news stories for a specific topic