
Erick Horn
Software Engineer
Erick is a software engineer passionate about building scalable APIs and data pipelines. He contributes to APITube's core infrastructure and writes about best practices in API development.

Software Engineer
Erick is a software engineer passionate about building scalable APIs and data pipelines. He contributes to APITube's core infrastructure and writes about best practices in API development.
13 articles
Stop losing articles between pages. A consumer-side guide to news API pagination: date-window slicing, 429 retries, async streaming, and dedup.
Build a Python Slack news bot. Format with Block Kit, schedule on cron / GitHub Actions / Lambda. Working code, ~80 lines.
News sentiment analysis in Python: VADER vs FinBERT vs TextBlob on 200 real articles — agreement rates, title-vs-body flip, and a streaming loop.
Learn how to build a news aggregator app in 30 minutes with vanilla JavaScript. Search, filters, rate-limit handling — full working code included.
Build a fact-checking workflow that extracts claims, finds articles with APITube, compares evidence, and explains results. Includes code and common failure modes.
Compare NewsCatcher vs APITube with real code, JSON responses, $/article math at 3 volumes, and when to stay with NewsCatcher. For developers.
News API rate limit comparison 2026: cross-vendor table with rpm, daily/monthly caps, articles/req, effective throughput, and throttle behavior.
Best news API for JavaScript and Node.js in 2026 — 7 picks compared, a reusable TypeScript fetch wrapper, SSE streaming, and production notes.
Best news API for Python in 2026: six ranked options with runnable code, asyncio.gather across vendors, pandas pipeline, and tenacity retry.
Audit your calls, tier cache TTL by news velocity, swap polling for webhooks, and bulk-export backfills to cut news API spend 70-90%. Per-100k cost math + code.
10 runnable news API filter patterns — title search, dates, entities, sentiment, sources, and compound queries — with curl, Python, and JSON examples plus the gotcha that wastes your first day.
Get articles about movies and the film industry.
Update 2024-12-18: the education program is closed. This guide explains how students, educators, and researchers can use a news API for teaching and research.
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