Google News

Easy peasy way to get the most recent news from Google Newspaper RSS

With npm do:

npm install @vorlefan/google-news @vorlefan/path xml2json

With yarn do:

yarn add  @vorlefan/google-news @vorlefan/path xml2json

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Documentation

I'm creating a simple website using Vercel to use as demo and documentation. W.I.P

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Highlight

• Easy way to define where to save
• Multiple Queries
• Save results in both raw (xml) and json (parsed)

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Bootstrap

Shortcut to the definitions and settings to execute the crawler.

Structure

import { GoogleNews } from '@vorlefan/google-news';

const news = new GoogleNews(searchs, options);

[searchs]

The paramater searchs can be either a single string or a array of strings. In which, will be the search for the news.

[options]

Checkout the types for this paramater in which needs to be an {Object}

saveXml?: boolean; // default is true
saveJson?: boolean; // default is true
timeout?: number | null; // default is null
route?: (route: PathRoute) => void; // if you want to setup the PathRoute, then define a function
routeName: string; // default is 'root'
language?: string; // language, default is en-US
localization?: string; // geo-localization, default is US

• saveXml : If you don't want to keep the xml saved, then set it false.
• saveJson : If you want to save the .json, then set it true.
• timeout : If you want to set a waiting time in between each crawler, then set it in seconds
• route : If you want to define the PathRoute as create a new folder, define a new route and so on.
• routeName : Where it be gonna saved, the files.
• language : Define the language of the searching. Example: en-US to english from United State or pt-BR for brazillian
• localization : Define where it gonna be localized the search. Example: US for United State or BR for Brazil.

Return

The methods and variables that you can interact when calling the class GoogleNews, is:

import { GoogleNews } from '@vorlefan/google-news';

const news = new GoogleNews(searchs, options);

// Execute the crawler
await news.run()

// return an array of the result
news.news()
news._news;

// return an array of array containg the item of each news (the items are the result of the news itself, containg things like title, link and description)
// You can define the sort if you want to.
await news.items(orderBy?: 'asc' | 'desc');

// Route from @vorlefan/path
news._route

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Example

import { GoogleNews } from '@vorlefan/google-news';

const news = new GoogleNews(['Kingkiller Chronicles'], {
    route: (route) => {
        route.inject('google-news', 'main');
    },
    routeName: 'google-news',
    language: 'en-US',
    localization: 'US',
});

// Run

void (async function () {
    await news.run();
    console.log(news.items('desc'));
})();

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Contributing

Thank you for being interested on making this package better. I encourage everyone to help improving this project with some new features, bug fixes and performance issues. Then please, if you can, help us to enchance this package.

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