News Reporting feature added

requirements.txt

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ speechrecognition~=3.10.0
 urllib3~=2.2.2
 wheel~=0.41.2
 wikipedia~=1.4.0
+feedparser~=6.0.11
+sgmllib3k~=1.0.0
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
 # pip

src/assistant.py

@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ def execute_query(self, query: str) -> None:
             else:
                 print("Scroll command not recognized")
 
+        elif "news" in query:
+            commands.fetch_news(self.__voice_interface)
+
         else:
             self.__voice_interface.speak("could not interpret the query")
 

src/commands.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 from subprocess import CalledProcessError, TimeoutExpired
 
+import feedparser
 import googlesearch
 import pyautogui as pag
 import pygetwindow
@@ -293,3 +294,26 @@ def simple_scroll(direction: str) -> None:
         pag.press(keys=direction, presses=25)
     else:
         print("Invalid direction")
+
+
+def fetch_news(vi: VoiceInterface) -> None:
+    """News Reporter fetches headlines from news.google.com rss feed and reads top 5 headlines"""
+
+    feed_url = "https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-IN&gl=IN&ceid=IN:en"
+    max_fetched_headlines = 5
+
+    vi.speak("Fetching news from servers.")
+
+    feed = feedparser.parse(feed_url)
+    if feed.status == 200:
+        headlines_list = []
+        for entry in feed.entries[:max_fetched_headlines]:
+            headlines_list.append((entry.title).split(" -")[0])
+
+        vi.speak("Here are some recent news headlines.")
+
+        for headline in headlines_list:
+            vi.speak(headline)
+
+    else:
+        vi.speak("Failed to fetch the news.")