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NewsScraper

A simple Python 3 module to get crypto or news articles and their content from various RSS feeds.

🔧 Installation

  1. Clone the repo locally.
  2. Use the package manager pip to install the requirements.
pip install -r requirements.txt

✨ Basic Usage

import NewsScraper

all_data = NewsScraper.fetch_all()
news_data = NewsScraper.fetch_news_data()
crypto_data = NewsScraper.fetch_crypto_data()

fetch_all()

Returns a set of NewsScraper.Result containing fetched results from all available RSS feeds

Can include categories: GLOBAL, US, EU, CRYPTO, BLOCKCHAIN, BTC, ETH, LTC.

fetch_news_data()

Returns a set of NewsScraper.Result containing fetched results from CNN, ABC News, Yahoo News, Fox News RSS feeds

Can include categories: GLOBAL, US, EU.

fetch_crypto_data()

Returns a set of NewsScraper.Result containing fetched results from CoinJournal, Crypto Currency News RSS feeds.

Can include categories: CRYPTO, BLOCKCHAIN, BTC, ETH, LTC.

🔨 Advanced Usage

NewsScraper.Result class

A class used to represent a returned article.

Attributes
  • context : str

    A string describing the category of the article.

    ex. "GLOBAL", "US", "BLOCKCHAIN", "BTC".

  • title : str

    A string containing the name of the article.

  • summary : str

    A string containing the summary of the article.

    NOTE: sometimes it can have the value of "", because the RSS feed didn't provide a summary.

  • content : str

    A string containing the content of the article.

Methods
  • Result.json()

    Returns a dictionary with the attributes of the class formatted in JSON.

    ex.

{
  "context": "global",
  "title": "title of the article",
  "summary": "summary of the article",
  "content": "content of the article"
}

News RSS Feeds

All of these functions return a set of NewsScraper.Result containing fetched results of the described RSS feeds.

fetch_abc()
fetch_cnn()
fetch_yahoo()
fetch_fox_news()

Can include categories: GLOBAL, US, EU.

Alternatively, you can use fetch_news_data() to receive results from all of them.


Crypto RSS Feeds

All of these functions return a set of NewsScraper.Result containing fetched results of the described RSS feeds.

fetch_coinjournal()
fetch_cryptocurrencynews()

Can include categories: CRYPTO, BLOCKCHAIN, BTC, ETH, LTC.

Alternatively, you can use fetch_news_data() to receive results from all of them.

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

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