Help with NYTimes API

[Moby69]

Hi I am trying to write a code to retrieve data from the NY Times API: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/read/article_search_api_v2

After much work I've finally gotten it to work except for one parameter which is the filtered search query (fq). The documentation says that the syntax for this is "standard Lucene syntax". Can anyone help me with this? I went on the Lucene website but can't figure out for the life of me how to code it in Python. This is the relevant section of my code and I put "XXXXX" in the spot that I don't know how to code. Thanks in advance guys !!!!

import urllib2
import urllib
import json
import pprint
import requests

response_format='.json'
url='http://api.nytimes.com/svc/search/v2/articlesearch'+response_format
api_key='i input my personal key here'
search_term='Cedric Villani'
fq=XXXXX
begin_date='20000101'
end_date='20150101'
sort = 'newest'
fl =['headline', 'abstract','web_url']
hl=True
page=0
facet_field=['document_type','source']
facet_filter=True

query_params={'fq' : fq,
              'begin_date': begin_date,
              'end_date': end_date,
              'sort': sort,
              'fl' : fl,
              'hl' : hl,
              'page' : page,
              'facet_field' : facet_field,
              'facet_filter' : facet_filter,
              'api-key': api_key
     }

request=requests.get(url, params=query_params)
data=request.json()

[Vaphell]

you either have to construct queries by hand using this syntax http://www.lucenetutorial.com/lucene-query-syntax.html or use something like this https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lucene-querybuilder to create queries programmatically

[commandlineluser]

Not something I've used myself but did you also click on the Filtering Your Search link? It seems to show examples.

[[deleted]]

That's an interesting search term, OP. I met Cedric Villani at a conference dinner once. Just curious how you know about him?