zim-newspaper

library to get newspaper, news from zim leading news providers

Example

from newspaperzw.Provider import Providers
from newspaperzw.news import News

# add your favourite news source so as to use its name only when getting news data
p = Providers(provider={'techzim': 'https://www.techzim.co.zw/'})

# get all preset news sources and url
all = Providers().getAll()

try:
  # get data from news site by name, default = `herald`
  api       = News(provider='techzim')
  news_data =  api.paper()

  # return dict with all news data, best to use `prettyprinter`
  print(new_data)

except Exception as e:
  print("There was a problem: ", e)

Get summary of article

• to get summary through NLP function, nltk is needed as dependent
• this returns same results as above but with a summary attribute that contains a summary of the article

from newspaperzw.Provider import Providers
from newspaperzw.news import News

try:
  # get data from news site by name, default = `herald`
  api       = News(provider='techzim', summary=True)
  news_data =  api.paper()

  # return dict with all news data, best to use `prettyprinter`
  print(new_data)

except Exception as e:
  print("There was a problem: ", e)

NEW!

added flag to set or disable cache

# __version__1.1.0

from newspaperzw.Provider import Providers
from newspaperzw.news import News

'''
	get a summary of the article from each article through the `summary=True` flag
	avoid cache memory by disabling it through the `cache=False` flag
	if cache is True, it will not return news previously downloaded on previous runs
'''

try:
  # get data from news site by name, default = `herald`
  api       = News(provider='techzim', summary=True, cache=False)
  news_data =  api.paper()

  # return dict with all news data, best to use `prettyprinter`
  print(new_data)

except Exception as e:
  print("There was a problem: ", e)

TODO

• library scrapes all available data that it encounters, need to narrow it down by date/month/year

• start from today up to any news obtained from last year

• improve speed

• disble logging

• date published

• log files need to be deleted in case they occupy signficant space on disk