What is Orb Weaver?

Orb Weaver is an all-in-one tool to extract Google News RSS, get source links and also images for your own news personal project.

Features:

• Headlines.
• Geolocation.
• Topics.
• Search.
• Language and country.
• Cover images.
• Sources.
• Amount of articles to collect.

Installation:

    npm install @ivanbogaeb/orbweaver

Usage:

const {orbWeaver} = require('@ivanbogaeb/orbweaver');
/* import {orbWeaver} from '@ivanbogaeb/orbweaver'; */ // You can import the package the way you want!

let weaver = new orbWeaver(); // Initialize

weaver.location = 'AR'; // Sets news location
weaver.language = 'es'; // Sets news language
weaver.extractURLs = true; // Get articles source URL
weaver.images = true; // Get base64 image for each article (Ready for img or canvas)
weaver.verbose = true; // If you like to see how the process is done

console.log(weaver.getTopics()); // Returns array with all available topics
console.log(weaver.getLangCountryMap()); // Returns all the available languages and countries.

(async () => {
    /* Your async function here */
    try {
        let technology = await weaver.topic('Technology', 10); // Extract 10 technology articles

        weaver.images = false; // You can turn off features dynamically!
            
        let headlines = await weaver.headlines(5); // Get only 5 headline articles
        let geolocation = await weaver.geo('New York'); // All the New York articles available
        let search = await weaver.search('Elon Musk', 1); // Last Elon Musk article
     
        if (!technology.length){ // If the array is empty
            console.log("No news were found");
        };

        /* Read the data */
        technology.forEach(({title, origin, link, pubDate, image, related}) => {
            /* Do what you need with the data */
        });
    } catch (error){ // In the case you miss something when you request articles!
        console.log(error);
    };
})();

You can run multiple Orb Weavers at the same time, but keep in mind it's CPU and RAM usage.

Expected output:

weaver.topic() / weaver.headlines() / weaver.geo() / weaver.search()

    /* Successful output */
    [
        ...,
        {
            title: "This is a very interesting article";
            origin: "Myself, of course";
            link: "https://github.com/ivanbogaeb/orbweaver";
            pubDate: "Tue, 11 May 2022 07:00:00 GMT";
            image: "data:image/jpeg;base64,blablablablablabla...";
            related: [ /*Might or might not be empty */
                {
                    title: "Another very interesting article";
                    url: "https://ivanbogaeb.github.io";
                }
            ];
        },
        ...
    ]


    /* Error output */
    // Console output if something happened
    [] // Array or failed property will be empty

weaver.getTopics()

    /* Successful output */
    ['World', 'Nation', 'Business', 'Technology', 'Entertainment', 'Sports', 'Science', 'Health'];

weaver.getLangCountryMap()

    /* Successful output */
    {
        "af": { // You can directly access the language as property
        "language": "Afrikaans", // English translation
        "native": "Afrikaans", // Native
        "country": ["NA", "ZA"] // Countries that speak it
        },
        "agq": {
            "language": "Aghem",
            "native": "Aghem",
            "country": ["CM"]
        },
        "ak": {
            "language": "Akan",
            "native": "Akan",
            "country": ["GH"]
        },
        "smn": {
            "language": "Inari Sami",
            "native": "anarâškielâ",
            "country": ["FI"]
        },
        ...
    };

Things to consider:

• Language codenames and countries are based on the ISO 2 Letter (Alpha-2 code, ISO 639-1) and ISO 3 Letter (Alpha-3 code, ISO 639-2) Standard Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages.
• The country is tied to the language you select, so look up for it with getLangCountryMap() function.
• Google News only returns articles that were written in the language and country you selected. If you are looking for Japanese news in English for example, you will get articles written in English, but not translated native news.
• The final amount of articles depends on Google. If you ask for 200 articles, you will only get the ones currently available and nothing else, not the 200.
• Gathering the original URL or Image is a slow process, you have to be patient.

Changelog:

• 12 May 2022 - Bug fixes and improvements - Version 1.1.0
• 11 May 2022 - First Release - Version 1.0.0
• Read more...

Credits:

• Brought to you thanks to TypeScript, Cheerio, Puppeteer and RSS-Parser.
• Inspired by google-news-js.

License:

CC0 1.0 Universal