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How to Read Top Live News Headlines Using the News API and Twilio SMS

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Date Published
Author
David Mbochi
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1,669
Company Posts That Month
37
Language
English
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No
Summary

To fetch the latest news headlines from the US using News API and Twilio SMS, you need to know your personal phone number, a valid News API key, and your Twilio account credentials. The `BBCNewsSMS` class is used to send an SMS with the most recent top news headline from the US. This class uses the `HttpClients` and `HttpClient` classes to make a GET request to the News API URL, parses the JSON response, extracts the necessary information, formats it into a string, and sends it via Twilio SMS. The program must be run on an IDE like IntelliJ IDEA with the required dependencies installed, including Maven, Java development kit (JDK) 8 or above, and Twilio account trial credits.

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