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A Happy and lightweight Python Package that Provides an API to search for articles on Google News and returns a JSON response.

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GNews

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A Happy and lightweight Python Package that Provides an API to search for articles on Google News and returns a usable JSON response! πŸš€
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Table of Contents πŸ“‘
  1. About 🚩
  2. Getting Started πŸš€
  3. Usage 🧩
  4. To Do πŸ“‹
  5. Roadmap πŸ›£οΈ
  6. Contributing 🀝
  7. License βš–οΈ
  8. Contact πŸ“¬
  9. Acknowledgements πŸ™

About GNews

🚩 GNews is A Happy and lightweight Python Package that searches Google News RSS Feed and returns a usable JSON response
🚩 As well as you can fetch full article (No need to write scrappers for articles fetching anymore)

Google News cover across 141+ countries with 41+ languages. On the bottom left side of the Google News page you may find a Language & region section where you can find all of the supported combinations.

Demo

GNews Demo

Getting Started

This is an example of how you may give instructions on setting up your project locally. To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Installation

pip install gnews

Setup with Docker

Developing with docker

  1. Install docker and docker-compose.
  2. Set-up your .env environment placing the mongo db credentials.
  3. Run docker-compose up --build

Install using clone

  1. Clone this repository https://github.com/ranahaani/GNews.git
  2. Start your virtual environment virtualenv gnews
  3. Install the requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt

Example usage

from gnews import GNews

google_news = GNews()
pakistan_news = google_news.get_news('Pakistan')
print(pakistan_news[0])
[{
'publisher': 'Aljazeera.com',
 'description': 'Pakistan accuses India of stoking conflict in Indian Ocean  '
                'Aljazeera.com',
 'published date': 'Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:50:43 GMT',
 'title': 'Pakistan accuses India of stoking conflict in Indian Ocean - '
          'Aljazeera.com',
 'url': 'https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/16/pakistan-accuses-india-of-nuclearizing-indian-ocean'
 },
 ...]

Get top news

  • GNews.get_top_news()

Get news by keyword

  • GNews.get_news(keyword)

Get news by major topic

  • GNews.get_news_by_topic(topic)
  • Available topics: WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH.

Get news by geo location

  • GNews.get_news_by_location(location)
  • location can be name of city/state/country

Get news by site

  • GNews.get_news_by_site(site)
  • site should be in the format of: "cnn.com"

Results specification

  • It's possible to pass proxy, country, language, period, start date, end date exclude websites and size during initialization
google_news = GNews(language='en', country='US', period='7d', start_date=None, end_date=None, max_results=10, exclude_websites=['yahoo.com', 'cnn.com'],
                    proxy=proxy)
  • Or change it to an existing object
google_news.period = '7d'  # News from last 7 days
google_news.max_results = 10  # number of responses across a keyword
google_news.country = 'United States'  # News from a specific country 
google_news.language = 'english'  # News in a specific language
google_news.exclude_websites = ['yahoo.com', 'cnn.com']  # Exclude news from specific website i.e Yahoo.com and CNN.com
google_news.start_date = (2020, 1, 1) # Search from 1st Jan 2020
google_news.end_date = (2020, 3, 1) # Search until 1st March 2020

The format of the timeframe is a string comprised of a number, followed by a letter representing the time operator. For example 1y would signify 1 year. Full list of operators below:

 - h = hours (eg: 12h)
 - d = days (eg: 7d)
 - m = months (eg: 6m)
 - y = years (eg: 1y)

Setting the start and end dates can be done by passing in either a datetime or a tuple in the form (YYYY, MM, DD).

Supported Countries

print(google_news.AVAILABLE_COUNTRIES)

{'Australia': 'AU', 'Botswana': 'BW', 'Canada ': 'CA', 'Ethiopia': 'ET', 'Ghana': 'GH', 'India ': 'IN',
 'Indonesia': 'ID', 'Ireland': 'IE', 'Israel ': 'IL', 'Kenya': 'KE', 'Latvia': 'LV', 'Malaysia': 'MY', 'Namibia': 'NA',
 'New Zealand': 'NZ', 'Nigeria': 'NG', 'Pakistan': 'PK', 'Philippines': 'PH', 'Singapore': 'SG', 'South Africa': 'ZA',
 'Tanzania': 'TZ', 'Uganda': 'UG', 'United Kingdom': 'GB', 'United States': 'US', 'Zimbabwe': 'ZW',
 'Czech Republic': 'CZ', 'Germany': 'DE', 'Austria': 'AT', 'Switzerland': 'CH', 'Argentina': 'AR', 'Chile': 'CL',
 'Colombia': 'CO', 'Cuba': 'CU', 'Mexico': 'MX', 'Peru': 'PE', 'Venezuela': 'VE', 'Belgium ': 'BE', 'France': 'FR',
 'Morocco': 'MA', 'Senegal': 'SN', 'Italy': 'IT', 'Lithuania': 'LT', 'Hungary': 'HU', 'Netherlands': 'NL',
 'Norway': 'NO', 'Poland': 'PL', 'Brazil': 'BR', 'Portugal': 'PT', 'Romania': 'RO', 'Slovakia': 'SK', 'Slovenia': 'SI',
 'Sweden': 'SE', 'Vietnam': 'VN', 'Turkey': 'TR', 'Greece': 'GR', 'Bulgaria': 'BG', 'Russia': 'RU', 'Ukraine ': 'UA',
 'Serbia': 'RS', 'United Arab Emirates': 'AE', 'Saudi Arabia': 'SA', 'Lebanon': 'LB', 'Egypt': 'EG',
 'Bangladesh': 'BD', 'Thailand': 'TH', 'China': 'CN', 'Taiwan': 'TW', 'Hong Kong': 'HK', 'Japan': 'JP',
 'Republic of Korea': 'KR'}

Supported Languages

print(google_news.AVAILABLE_LANGUAGES)

{'english': 'en', 'indonesian': 'id', 'czech': 'cs', 'german': 'de', 'spanish': 'es-419', 'french': 'fr',
 'italian': 'it', 'latvian': 'lv', 'lithuanian': 'lt', 'hungarian': 'hu', 'dutch': 'nl', 'norwegian': 'no',
 'polish': 'pl', 'portuguese brasil': 'pt-419', 'portuguese portugal': 'pt-150', 'romanian': 'ro', 'slovak': 'sk',
 'slovenian': 'sl', 'swedish': 'sv', 'vietnamese': 'vi', 'turkish': 'tr', 'greek': 'el', 'bulgarian': 'bg',
 'russian': 'ru', 'serbian': 'sr', 'ukrainian': 'uk', 'hebrew': 'he', 'arabic': 'ar', 'marathi': 'mr', 'hindi': 'hi',
 'bengali': 'bn', 'tamil': 'ta', 'telugu': 'te', 'malyalam': 'ml', 'thai': 'th', 'chinese simplified': 'zh-Hans',
 'chinese traditional': 'zh-Hant', 'japanese': 'ja', 'korean': 'ko'}

Article Properties

  • Get news returns the list with following keys: title, published_date, description, url, publisher.
Properties Description Example
title Title of the article IMF Staff and Pakistan Reach Staff-Level Agreement on the Pending Reviews Under the Extended Fund Facility
url Google news link to article Article Link
published date Published date Wed, 07 Jun 2017 07:01:30 GMT
description Short description of article IMF Staff and Pakistan Reach Staff-Level Agreement on the Pending Reviews Under the Extended Fund Facility ...
publisher Publisher of article The Guardian

Getting full article

  • To read a full article you can either:
    • Navigate to the url directly in your browser, or
    • Use newspaper3k library to scrape the article
  • The article url, needed for both methods, is accessed as article['url'].

Using newspaper3k

  1. Install the library - pip3 install newspaper3k.
  2. Use get_full_article method from GNews, that creates an newspaper.article.Article object from the url.
from gnews import GNews

google_news = GNews()
json_resp = google_news.get_news('Pakistan')
article = google_news.get_full_article(
    json_resp[0]['url'])  # newspaper3k instance, you can access newspaper3k all attributes in article

This new object contains title, text (full article) or images attributes. Examples:

article.title 

IMF Staff and Pakistan Reach Staff-Level Agreement on the Pending Reviews Under the Extended Fund Facility'

article.text 

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a mission. The views expressed are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF’s Executive Board.\n\nIMF staff and the Pakistani authorities have reached an agreement on a package of measures to complete second to fifth reviews of the authorities’ reform program supported by the IMF Extended Fund Facility (EFF) ..... (full article)

article.images

{'https://www.imf.org/~/media/Images/IMF/Live-Page/imf-live-rgb-h.ashx?la=en', 'https://www.imf.org/-/media/Images/IMF/Data/imf-logo-eng-sep2019-update.ashx', 'https://www.imf.org/-/media/Images/IMF/Data/imf-seal-shadow-sep2019-update.ashx', 'https://www.imf.org/-/media/Images/IMF/Social/TW-Thumb/twitter-seal.ashx', 'https://www.imf.org/assets/imf/images/footer/IMF_seal.png'}

article.authors

[]

Read full documentation for newspaper3k newspaper3k

Todo

  • Save to MongoDB
  • Save to SQLite
  • Save to JSON
  • Save to .CSV file
  • More than 100 articles

Roadmap

See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

  1. Fork the Project
  2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
  3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
  4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
  5. Open a Pull Request

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

Muhammad Abdullah - @ranahaani - ranahaani@gmail.com

Project Link: https://github.com/ranahaani/GNews

Project Link: https://github.com/ranahaani/GNews

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A Happy and lightweight Python Package that Provides an API to search for articles on Google News and returns a JSON response.

https://pypi.org/project/gnews/

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