News Compiler

Compilation of news for a given subject, using Google News.

A project made with the purpose of studying automation, scraping and file manipulation with Python.

⚙️ Setup and usage

• First, clone this repo with: git clone https://github.com/cauabernardino/newscompiler
• Enter the directory and install the package:

  $ cd newscompiler
  $ pip install .

• Usage:

  # With default values to language (english) and time interval (1d)
  $ news "star wars"
  $ news -l en -t 1d "star wars"
  
  # With  different values
  $ news -l pt -t 7d "star wars"
  
  # To export to PDF
  $ news -l pt -t 1d "star wars" --pdf

  • Use news -h or news --help for all options
• The output can be either in console or as a PDF file, with news headlines and their links in TinyURL format.

📋 Updates

04/06/2022

• Update on package configuration logic
• New generator logic for console printing

28/02/2022

• News printing to the console implemented (now standard)
• Refactor of PDF exporting function
• New argument to export to PDF

19/02/2022

• Refactor of code to detach functionalities
• Python package configuration
• Time interval choosing

17/03/2021

• Total refactor for performance and generalization improvements!
  • Now the script uses requests and lxml.html for scraping;
  • No more need for Selenium and Chromedriver.

22/Oct/2020

• Testing with Chrome v86+, after updating Chromedriver, and working.

11/Aug/2020

• Added new command-line option for choosing the language of the search;
• Browser window will run minimized.

31/Jul/2020

• First version release.