GNews 📰

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

Getting Started

This section provides instructions for two different use cases:

1. Installing the GNews package for immediate use.
2. Setting up the GNews project for local development.

1. Installing the GNews package

To install the package and start using it in your own projects, follow these steps:

pip install gnews

2. Setting Up GNews for Local Development

If you want to make modifications locally, follow these steps to set up the development environment.

Option 1: Setup with Docker

1. Install docker and docker-compose.
2. Configure the .env file by placing your MongoDB credentials.
3. Run the following command to build and start the Docker containers:

docker-compose up --build

Option 2: Install Using Git Clone

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ranahaani/GNews.git

2. Set up a virtual environment:

   virtualenv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # MacOS/Linux
   .\venv\Scripts\activate  # Windows

3. Install the required dependencies:

   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, POLITICS, CELEBRITIES, TV, MUSIC, MOVIES, THEATER, SOCCER, CYCLING, MOTOR SPORTS, TENNIS, COMBAT SPORTS, BASKETBALL, BASEBALL, FOOTBALL, SPORTS BETTING, WATER SPORTS, HOCKEY, GOLF, CRICKET, RUGBY, ECONOMY, PERSONAL FINANCE, FINANCE, DIGITAL CURRENCIES, MOBILE, ENERGY, GAMING, INTERNET SECURITY, GADGETS, VIRTUAL REALITY, ROBOTICS, NUTRITION, PUBLIC HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH, MEDICINE, SPACE, WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT, NEUROSCIENCE, PHYSICS, GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY, SOCIAL SCIENCES, EDUCATION, JOBS, ONLINE EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION, VEHICLES, ARTS-DESIGN, BEAUTY, FOOD, TRAVEL, SHOPPING, HOME, OUTDOORS, FASHION.

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

All parameters are optional and can be passed during initialization. Here’s a list of the available parameters:

• language: The language in which to return results (default: 'en').
• country: The country code for the headlines (default: 'US').
• period: The time period for which you want news.
• start_date: Date after which results must have been published.
• end_date: Date before which results must have been published.
• max_results: The maximum number of results to return (default: 100).
• exclude_websites: A list of websites to exclude from results.
• proxy: A dictionary specifying the proxy settings used to route requests. The dictionary should contain a single key-value pair where the key is the protocol (http or https) and the value is the proxy address. Example:

  
  # Example with only HTTP proxy
  proxy = {
    'http': 'http://your_proxy_address',
  }

Example with only HTTPS proxy

proxy = { 'https': 'http://your_proxy_address', }

#### Example Initialization
```python
from gnews import GNews

# Initialize GNews with various parameters, including proxy
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={
        'https': 'https://your_proxy_address'
    }
)

• 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.

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