Read latest news using newsapi | Python

In this article, we will learn how to create a Python script to read the latest news. We will fetch news from news API and after that, we will read news using pyttsx3.

Modules required :

pyttsx3 - pip install pyttsx3
requests - pip install requests

Getting news API :
To get a API for news we will use newsapi.org. we will create account and take API key by clicking on get API button.

Step #1: Import modules needed

import pyttsx3 
import requests 
import json 
import time 

Step #2: Setting up URL with API key, place your API key here.

url = ('https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?'
       'country = in&'
       'apiKey =') 
  
url += 'your_api_key_here'

Step #3: Setting an engine for pyttsx3 for reading news.

engine = pyttsx3.init()

Step #4: Setting up properties of our engine, means reading rate, volume, and sound of a voice.

rate = engine.getProperty('rate') 
engine.setProperty('rate', rate + 10) 
   
volume = engine.getProperty('volume') 
engine.setProperty('volume', volume-0.60) 
   
sound = engine.getProperty ('voices'); 
engine.setProperty('voice', 'sound[1].id') 

Step #5: Trying to send request to get news. Here, engine.say() function is used to read news.

try: 
    response = requests.get(url) 
except: 
    engine.say("can, t access link, plz check you internet ") 
   
news = json.loads(response.text) 

for new in news['articles']: 
    print("##############################################################\n") 
    print(str(new['title']), "\n\n") 
    engine.say(str(new['title'])) 
    print('______________________________________________________\n') 
  
    engine.runAndWait() 
  
    print(str(new['description']), "\n\n") 
    engine.say(str(new['description'])) 
    engine.runAndWait() 
    print("..............................................................") 
    time.sleep(2) 

Now, everything is ready build a loop to read new articles.

Below is the complete Python implementation :

import pyttsx3 
import requests 
import json 
import time 
  
url = ('https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?'
       'country = in&'
       'apiKey =') 
  
url +='your_api_key_here'
  
   
engine = pyttsx3.init() 
rate = engine.getProperty('rate') 
engine.setProperty('rate', rate + 10) 
  
volume = engine.getProperty('volume') 
engine.setProperty('volume', volume-0.60) 
  
sound = engine.getProperty ('voices'); 
engine.setProperty('voice', 'sound[1].id') 
  
  
try: 
    response = requests.get(url) 
except: 
    engine.say("can, t access link, plz check you internet ") 
  
news = json.loads(response.text) 
  
  
for new in news['articles']: 
    print("##############################################################\n") 
    print(str(new['title']), "\n\n") 
    engine.say(str(new['title'])) 
    print('______________________________________________________\n') 
  
    engine.runAndWait() 
  
    print(str(new['description']), "\n\n") 
    engine.say(str(new['description'])) 
    engine.runAndWait() 
    print("..............................................................") 
    time.sleep(2) 

Output:

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