A topic is a high level theme that describes the content of a particular feed that we track. For example, content that comes from BBC Sport is given the topic Sports.

To make your code less vulnerable to renaming of topics, each topic has an ID associated with it. This ID doesn't change. So, in the case of BBC Sport articles, they'll have the topic ID of 32.

The tables below allow you to look up the mapping of topics to IDs.

FieldDescription
idNewsWhip’s unique id for this Topic
nameEnglish name for this topic
Topic NameID
Accounting469
Action Sports653
Aging636
Agricultural Goods455
American Football39
Anime663
App692
Arts6
Aus Football44
Autos473
Baseball43
Basketball40
Beauty540
Biotech538
Boat Racing665
Brands667
Business28
Careers441
Celebrity699
Cloud Computing537
Combat Sports752
Commodities442
Cricket41
Culture4
Currencies450
Cyber Security625
Cycling37
Data Storage626
Defence472
Design7
Dev696
DIY694
Economics21
Education475
Electronics470
Emerging Markets458
Energy433
Entertainment3
Environment27
Events668
Fake News868
Fashion5
Fathers435
Finance463
Financial Products452
Fitness697
Food & Drink15
For Her17
For Him16
Fun18
Funds453
Gadgets623
Gaelic Games753
Gaming10
Golf35
Great Outdoors750
Hardware629
Health13
Health Care461
Homemaking437
Horse Racing664
Hunting & Fishing758
Ice Hockey430
Ideas11
Indexes456
Industries459
Insurance462
International685
K-Pop669
Latino633
Left23
Legal467
Life12
Luxury466
Manga693
Marketing447
Markets449
Martial Arts671
Media429
Mining432
Mothers436
Motorsports36
Movies8
Music9
Networking627
News2
Oil and Gas460
Opinion19
Parenting434
People687
Personal Finance446
Pets670
Politics20
Private Equity457
Psychology14
Rates and Bonds454
Real Estate474
Religion756
Renewable Energy539
Retail465
Retirement448
Right24
Rugby34
Science26
Soccer33
Society686
Software628
Sports32
Startups30
Stocks451
Storyful476
Strategy31
Tech25
Tech Industry471
Teens652
Telecom468
Tennis38
The Wire29
Track42
Transport464
Travel443
TV655
US Election 2016751
Viral Sites285
Weather661
Wireless – Mobile624
Wochit622
ZoomInTv635