Merge pull request #230 from TaniaMalhotra/news-assistant

News assistant

Author: tejan-singh

Python/news-assistant/README.md

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+# News assistant
+- - - - - - - - - 
+## Aim
+
+The aim of this script is to read out the top headlines of your favourite news category</br>
+Categories you can choose from are:</br>
+- business
+- entertainment
+- general
+- health 
+- science
+- sports 
+- technology
+
+## Requirements
+```pip install newsapi-python```
+```pip install pyttsx3==2.711```
+
+## To use:
+- ```python news.py```
+- Get and enter your API key by registering at https://newsapi.org/register
+- Enter the category from the above listed categories
+- Sit back and listen to the latest news headlines :)

Python/news-assistant/news.py

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+# importing requests package
+from newsapi import NewsApiClient
+import requests
+import pyttsx3
+# initializing the text to speech engine
+engine = pyttsx3.init()
+rate = engine.getProperty('rate')
+engine.setProperty('rate', rate-50)
+
+#asking for news API key from https://newsapi.org/register
+apiKey = input("Please input your news API key by registering at https://newsapi.org/register : ")
+newsapi = NewsApiClient(api_key=apiKey)
+engine.say('Please enter the category of news from the following')
+engine.runAndWait()
+engine.say('business, entertainment, general, health, science, sports and technology')
+engine.runAndWait()
+category = input("Please enter the category of news from the following: business, entertainment, general, health, science, sports and technology: ")
+
+# fetching top headlines
+top_headlines = newsapi.get_top_headlines(category=category,language='en',country='us')
+engine.say("Here are the top 5 news headlines from your chosen category")
+engine.runAndWait()
+for i in range(5):
+    print(top_headlines["articles"][i]['title'])
+    engine.say(top_headlines["articles"][i]['title'])
+    engine.runAndWait()