fetch-headlines

Fetches headlines from Google News or Twitter.

Installation

npm install fetch-headlines

Usage

var fetchHeadlines = require('fetch-headlines');
var opts = {
  topic: 'computers',
};
fetchHeadlines(opts, logResults);

function logResults(headlines) {
  console.log(headlines);
}

Output:

[ 
  'These 5 Kits Can Teach Kids About Computers and Coding',
  'Gift of computers gives hope to homeless',
  'What Infographics Looked Like Before Computers',
  'Programs on Mac computers and tablets at the library',
  'A major breakthrough has given these Australian engineers everything they need ...',
  'Hey Siri, What Did You Say? Why Computers Still Mispronounce Names',
  'Microsoft gave us a glimpse at what the future of computers could look like',
  'Quantum leap for computers',
  'More people now search Google on their phone than from their computers',
  'Computers for textbooks is exciting for education'
]

You can skip passing in a topic in opts to just get general news. You can also pass an instance of iscool in the opts, if you want fetchHeadlines to use it filter headlines. e.g.:

var createIsCool = require('iscool');

var isCool = createIsCool({
  customBlacklist: [
    'spider',
    'spiders',
    'arachnids'
  ]
});

var opts = {
  topic: 'computers',
  isCool: isCool
};
fetchHeadlines(opts, logResults);

To get results from Twitter rather than Google News, pass in 'twitter' as the source in the opts and a twit instance. e.g.:

var opts = {
  topic: 'computers',
  source: 'twitter',
  twit: new Twit(yourTwitterAPIKeys)
};
fetchHeadlines(opts, logResults);

Tests

Run tests with make test.

Run live tests by first creating a config.js file in the project that has Twitter API keys like so:

module.exports = {
  twitter: {
    consumer_key: 'asdfkljqwerjasdfalpsdfjas',
    consumer_secret: 'asdfasdjfbkjqwhbefubvskjhfbgasdjfhgaksjdhfgaksdxvc',
    access_token: '9999999999-zxcvkljhpoiuqwerkjhmnb,mnzxcvasdklfhwer',
    access_token_secret: 'opoijkljsadfbzxcnvkmokwertlknfgmoskdfgossodrh'
  }
};

The run make test-live. (Warning: These are live tests that really use the Internet.)

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Jim Kang

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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