InShorts Flutter API

Get access to inshorts app's private API in flutter

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🌈Categories

  • All News
  • Trending
  • Top Stories
  • National
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • Startups
  • Entertainment
  • Hatke
  • Education
  • World
  • Automobile
  • Science
  • Travel
  • Miscellaneous
  • Fashion

🔥 Usage

Add the dependency in pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  inshorts_flutter: ^0.0.3

Get news

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:inshorts_flutter/inshorts_flutter.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
        title: 'InShorts News',
        debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
        theme: ThemeData(
          primarySwatch: Colors.deepPurple,
        ),
        home: const HomePage());
  }
}

class HomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  const HomePage({super.key});

  @override
  State<HomePage> createState() => _HomePageState();
}

class _HomePageState extends State<HomePage> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin {
  TabController? _controller;

  List categories = [NewsType.allNews, NewsType.trending, NewsType.topStories, NewsType.business];

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _controller = TabController(length: categories.length, vsync: this);
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
          centerTitle: true,
          title: const Text('InShorts News'),
          bottom: TabBar(controller: _controller, tabs: categories.map((e) => Tab(text: InShorts.getNewsTitle(e))).toList())),
      body: TabBarView(
        controller: _controller,
        children: categories
            .map((e) => FutureBuilder<Data>(
                future: InShorts.getNews(newsType: e, language: Language.en),
                builder: (context, snapshot) {
                  if (snapshot.hasData) {
                    return ListView.builder(
                      itemCount: snapshot.data?.newsList?.length ?? 0,
                      itemBuilder: (context, index) {
                        News? news = snapshot.data?.newsList?[index];
                        if (news == null || news.newsObj == null) {
                          return const SizedBox.shrink();
                        }
                        final obj = news.newsObj!;
                        return Card(
                          margin: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 10, vertical: 6),
                          shape: RoundedRectangleBorder(borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(12)),
                          elevation: 2,
                          child: Padding(
                            padding: const EdgeInsets.all(10),
                            child: Column(
                              crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
                              children: [
                                Row(
                                  crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
                                  children: [
                                    if (obj.imageUrl != null)
                                      ClipRRect(
                                        borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(8),
                                        child: Image.network(
                                          obj.imageUrl!,
                                          height: 80,
                                          width: 80,
                                          fit: BoxFit.cover,
                                        ),
                                      ),
                                    const SizedBox(width: 12),
                                    Expanded(
                                      child: Text(
                                        obj.title ?? 'No Title',
                                        maxLines: 3,
                                        overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
                                        style: const TextStyle(fontSize: 15, fontWeight: FontWeight.bold),
                                      ),
                                    ),
                                  ],
                                ),
                                const SizedBox(height: 8),
                                Text(
                                  obj.content ?? '',
                                  maxLines: 4,
                                  overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
                                  style: TextStyle(fontSize: 13, color: Colors.grey[800], height: 1.3),
                                ),
                              ],
                            ),
                          ),
                        );
                      },
                    );
                  } else if (snapshot.hasError) {
                    return const Center(child: Text('Error fetching news'));
                  }
                  return const Center(child: CircularProgressIndicator());
                }))
            .toList(),
      ),
    );
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    _controller?.dispose();
    super.dispose();
  }
}


Data class consists of following,

class Data{
    List<News>? newsList;
    String? message;
}

News class consists of following,

class News{
  String? hashId;
  int? rank;
  int? version;
  String? type;
  bool? readOverride;
  bool? fixedRank;
  NewsObj? newsObj;
}

NewsObj class consists of following,

class NewsObj{
  String? oldHashId;
  String? hashId;
  String? authorName;
  String? content;
  String? sourceUrl;
  String? sourceName;
  String? title;
  bool? important;
  String? imageUrl;
  String? shortenedUrl;
  int? createdAt;
  int? score;
  List<String>? categoryNames;
  List<String>? relevancyTags;
  String? tenant;
  String? fbObjectId;
  int? fbLikeCount;
  String? countryCode;
  List<String>? targetedCity;
  String? bottomHeadline;
  String? bottomText;
  bool? darkerFonts;
  String? bottomPanelLink;
  String? bottomType;
  int? version;
  bool? dontShowAd;
  String? pollTenant;
  bool? videoOpinionEnabled;
  String? language;
  bool? showInshortsBrandName;
  bool? imageForRepresentation;
 }

Make use of NewsObj class to access news headline, content, image, source and more.


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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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