/r/newsprioritiestoday

Official news scraper bot for reddit.com/r/newsprioritiestoday

How does it work?

The goal is to post the main headlines from all over the world in a concentrated matter over on reddit.com/r/newsprioritiestoday.

We use the following three repositories to do this:

• newsprioritiestoday-scraper is scraping the big news sites for their headlines and converts the info into easier to handle structure.
• newsprioritiestoday-data all data that is collected is stored in a tinyDB database. Feel free to explore this yourself.
• newsprioritiestoday-reddibot is using the data to post a news summary once a day on the subreddit.

Contributions

Contributions are very welcome. Feel free to submit a pull request for a newssource of your choice. The more news sites the better.

How to add a news source

1. Add a new source under the lib directory. Name the file something appropriate for the news source, e.g. it's name.
2. Use the following template in the file. I use the requests-html library to parse the news sites. Feel free to use your own favourite lib.

from requests_html import HTMLSession
from datetime import datetime

session = HTMLSession()
r = session.get('https://www.mynewssite.com/')


def scrape():

    result = {
        "datetime": datetime.now(),
        "country": "COUNTRY OF NEWSSITE",
        "source": "https://www.mynewssite.com/",
        "articles": []
    }

    // ENTER YOUR SCRAPE LOGIC HERE

    return result

Your scrape function must return the result object. The articles array should contain objects with the following structure:

{
    "link":     ""
    "headline": "",
    "infotext": "" # optional, additional information that might be added to a news link
    "category": "" # optional, can be 'Inland' or 'Abroad'
}

3. Create your pull request. I will check out your code and add your scrape function to the main loop.

Thank you very much. :)

Licence

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2019 G710

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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