The Apple News Format, API and associated technologies
The apple-news tag covers the technologies associated with mark up as well as posting articles to the iOS News App. These technologies include:
Questions tagged [apple-news]
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How to specify channel icon/photo for Apple News app
Apple seems to have no documentation for how they pull the main image for your channel in Apple News.
This one here:
I have og:image tags on my site + the apple-touch-icon meta. I also have images in my RSS feed. It's showing up blank.
Any…
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RSS Feed for Apple News Format
We are creating a feed specifically for Apple News in order to submit our news content.
Naturally, I've been going over the provided documentation after ensuring the feed is RSS 2.0 compliant to make sure that it is also compliant with Apple…
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What does Apple News use to determine when images are displayed?
We have set up several of our websites on Apple News now. For half of our sites (built on one platform), images are displayed in the Article List view 95% of the time. The other half of our sites display an image in the Article List 0% of the time.…
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Working PHP code for Apple-news to create article
UPDATE: Below code works for me. Hope it helps someone to figure out their problem.
After having several errors, it helped going back and looking at all possible error codes on Apple News Developer site.
Look at specific error numbers in your code…
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Posting articles to apple news api
I am trying to post articles to Apple News API but I am getting the following error:
Unauthorized Error (Wrong signature).
Apple instructs to do the following:
Create a canonical version of the request as a byte-wise concatenation
of the…
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Equivalent of Z-Index in Apple News
I'm looking for something that will enable me to keep one item in front of others in my Apple News documents--the equivalent of a z-index in CSS. I haven't found anything in the documentation that seems to apply.
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Add a custom font to Apple News
I have a font in both .otf and .ttf format. I'd like to use it on my Apple News article, but I keep getting the error Error: Custom font (postscript name=CustomFontName) not available. I know the JSON is correct because it works if I use a…
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How do I connect to the Apple News API from c#?
I'm trying to connect to Apple's News API. When generating the signature the results all appear the same from each of the different examples. However, I keep getting this error:
{"errors":[{"code":"WRONG_SIGNATURE"}]}
Here is my c# code to generate…
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Embed iframe in Apple News Format
I am trying to embed an iframe in Apple News Content and have problem with it.
According to Apple News Format documentation, it seems not allowed to embed iframe in Apple News Content.
But I saw many sample news that have an embedded iframe.
Does…
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Is it possible to make an image link to an external link in Apple News Format?
I'm new to Apple News Format and was asked to place a banner on our Apple News articles that links to our external website on a browser.
But I'm not seeing a way to do so. I'm using the Image component, which supports additions for ComponentLinks,…
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401 Unauthorized Response from Apple New Publisher API
I want to access my channel with the apple new publisher API. I am trying to replicate the same python in the apple documentation
String finalUrl = baseURL + channelId;
String date= getCurrentDate();
String canonical_request = "GET"+finalUrl +…
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How to track traffic in Google Analytics from Apple News rss feed?
I am trying to track traffic coming from Apple News through Google Analytics, submit in RSS format. After online search I found that only if it's submitted in Apple New format. And that RSS feed is unreliable to track with GA.
Is there any other way…
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IOS share extension how to support apple news
Can you please help me in the matter of supporting apple news sharing ,
My Share Extension info.plist contains :
NSExtension
NSExtensionAttributes
NSExtensionActivationRule
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Eng waleed qaffaf
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Apple news API. PHP code for Connect and send json data
I am able to connect with the help of apple news api but I can't able to send data in json format.
My code is below.
but when I try to attach json file. I am getting signature failure message.
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Background colour in Apple News story header
How to change the background colour of the top header bar (where the transparent brand logo seats) of story/article pages, in Apple News ?
Couldn't find at configuration in iCloud News Publisher > Settings > Branding
Does the brand need to be…
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