Event Knowledge API
API change historyGet Trending Events by Date
Given a date, our service returns trending events around the date sorted by hotness. Each event is associated with dominant entities and the latest news.
Try itRequest
Request URL
Request parameters
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string
The specific date to be queried on. The date should be in format "yyyy-mm-dd", example: "2016-06-14".
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(optional)number
The $top query option requests the number of items in the queried collection to be included in the result.
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(optional)number
The $skip query option requests the number of items in the queried collection that are to be skipped and not included in the result.
Request headers
Request body
Responses
200 OK
Succeed
Representations
{
"value": [
{
"eventId": "dd0b29cf511840338129c145a19102a0",
"relatedEntities": [
"Microsoft",
"LinkedIn",
"Chief Executive Officer"
],
"from": "2016-06-13T12:31:51Z",
"to": "2016-06-14T17:10:26Z",
"topDocument": {
"documentId": "47f328cff9edd07dd5ea0f558208e5f3",
"source": "WinBeta",
"publishDate": "2016-06-14T17:10:26Z",
"title": "Microsoft buys LinkedIn: making sense of a blockbuster deal",
"summary": "While most of the Microsoft-centric world was gearing up for a day filled with all the latest Xbox had to offer, and the non-believers got similarly ready for Tim Cook’s keynote at WWDC, Microsoft...The post Microsoft buys LinkedIn: making sense of a blockbuster deal appeared first on WinBeta.",
"url": "http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-buys-linkedin-making-sense-blockbuster-deal",
"entities": [
"Xbox 360",
"Tim Cook",
"Apple Worldwide Developers Conference"
]
},
"documentCount": 186
}
]
}
404 Not Found
Resource not found
Representations
{
"statusCode": 404
"message": "Resource not found"
}
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/hotevents?date={date}?$top=20&$skip={number}"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
// Request parameters
queryString["$top"] = "20";
queryString["$skip"] = "{number}";
var uri = "https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/hotevents?date={date}&" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/hotevents?date={date}");
builder.setParameter("$top", "20");
builder.setParameter("$skip", "{number}");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
"$top": "20",
"$skip": "{number}",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/hotevents?date={date}&" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
},
type: "GET",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/hotevents?date={date}";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"$top=20",
@"$skip={number}",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/hotevents?date={date}');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'$top' => '20',
'$skip' => '{number}',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'$top': '20',
'$skip': '{number}',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com')
conn.request("GET", "/eventknowledge/v1.0/hotevents?date={date}&%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'$top': '20',
'$skip': '{number}',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com')
conn.request("GET", "/eventknowledge/v1.0/hotevents?date={date}&%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/eventknowledge/v1.0/hotevents?date={date}')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'$top' => '20',
'$skip' => '{number}'
})
if query.length > 0
if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
uri.query += '&' + query
else
uri.query = query
end
end
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body