bbc-feeds

A python package to get news, weather, and sports from BBC.

Installation

pip3 install bbc-feeds

Usage

1. Import the library: import bbc_feeds
2. Call a class and then a function with bbc_feeds.news().all(). In this example news is the class and the function is all. This will return a list of news stories as a dictionary.

Example

The below example gets the first three stories from the homepage (all) and prints out the story name and summary.

import bbc_feeds

stories = bbc_feeds.news().all(limit=3)

for story in stories:
    print(story.title)
    print(story.summary)

To get a list of the dictionary keys available use the keys() function.

Functions

News

top_stories() has the optional parameter edition which is used to set the edition to use when getting the top stories. You can set edition to the following:

• uk - UK Top stories
• us - US Top stories
• int - International Top stories

Sports

Weather

• weather().forecast(city_id) (To get your city ID, search for it on the BBC Weather's Website).

All functions have an optional parameter limit, where you can limit the number of entries.

CLI

Usage: bbc [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Get BBC feeds of several categories

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  news
  sports
  weather