Feed Delivery of Personal Followed Topics

 

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What are personal Followed Topics?

Personal Followed Topics are user-customizable searches created in AP Newsroom, based upon criteria you select. You can use personal Followed Topics to monitor incoming content for your favorite news subjects. If you create a feed for a personal Followed Topic feed in AP Newsroom and then ingest the feed using AP Media Agent or AP Media API, any new content matching the search criteria will automatically be sent to your CMS.

How do I create a personal Followed Topic?

To create a personal Followed Topic, visit newsroom.ap.org, perform a search and click Follow below the media filters.

How do I create a feed for my personal Followed Topic?

  1. In AP Newsroom, click in the Search bar and select Manage Followed Topics to display the Manage Your Followed Topics page.

  2. Make sure the Show personal topics only check box is selected.

  3. Move your mouse over the personal Followed Topic to display . Move your mouse over and select Edit personal topic to display the Followed Topic window.

  4. Enable Create Feed; then click Update.

 

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The Create Feed option can also be enabled when you create a personal Followed Topic.

 

 

 

To learn more about Followed Topics, refer to the AP Newsroom Help.

How do I ingest Followed Topic feeds?

If you are using AP Media Agent

  1. On the configuration dashboard, navigate to your desired profile.

  2. On the Select Content tab, click the Followed Topics tab and select one or more Followed Topic feeds.

  3. Click Save Profile at the bottom of the page to save your selections.

If you are accessing the content programmatically via AP Media API

Use the following request URL for the initial feed request and make sure to supply the API key in the x-api-key request header:

https://api.ap.org/media/v/content/feed?q=followedtopicid:714600

All subsequent feed requests must use the next_page link from the previous feed response.

In the example above, 714600 is the desired personal Followed Topic ID. To obtain the Topic ID, make sure the Show personal topics only check box is selected on AP Newsroom's Manage Your Followed Topics page and move your mouse over the personal Followed Topic:

To learn more about AP Media API feed requests, refer to the AP Media API Developer documentation.