Get a timeline from the NewsReader API
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Last edited Jun 6, 2014
Created on Jun 6, 2014
This visualization builds a chronological timeline of events involving the actor Mohammed bin Hammam by querying the NewsReader API, which returns event summaries linked to a specific DBpedia URI. It shows how each event’s size and timestamp are recorded, with the timeline displaying event occurrences over time. The code uses the `requests` library to fetch paginated JSON data, parsing the response to extract event details, and saves the results to an SQLite database via `scraperwiki.sqlite.save`. The timeline itself is not rendered here; the script only collects and stores the temporal data.
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