ovos-media-provider-news

This is an OVOS MediaProvider plugin for broadcast news feeds. It replaces the deprecated OCP search skill ovos-skill-news.

The deprecated skill broadcast ovos.common_play.query over the bus and waited for skills to answer. The OCP pipeline now loads MediaProvider plugins in-process, gates them by routing, and calls search() directly.

This plugin ships a curated News.json catalog (feed name, uri, aliases, language, and world-vs-local flag). It scores each feed against the query title, request language, and region, and returns mediavocab.Release objects.

Feed URIs keep their original extractor prefix (rss//…, news//…, youtube.channel.live//…), so the OCP playback layer resolves them exactly as the deprecated skill did.

Install

pip install ovos-media-provider-news

Usage

The OCP pipeline discovers the plugin through its entry point and calls search() with the parsed query signals:

from ovos_media_provider_news import NewsMediaProvider
from mediavocab import Signals

provider = NewsMediaProvider()
results = provider.search(Signals(title="play the news"), lang="en-us")

A bare NEWS request with no title browses the catalog, and each language's default feed floats to the top. The call returns an empty list on failure.

Routing

Entry point

[project.entry-points."opm.media.provider"]
news = "ovos_media_provider_news:NewsMediaProvider"

Configuration

Related projects

• OpenVoiceOS/ovos-plugin-manager loads and routes MediaProvider plugins for the OCP pipeline.
• OpenVoiceOS/ovos-skill-news is the deprecated skill this plugin replaces.
• TigreGotico/mediavocab defines the Release and Signals objects this plugin returns and consumes.

License

Apache-2.0