Added news fetching functionality to Assistant

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

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
 from voice_interface import VoiceInterface
 
 LISTENING_ERROR = "Say that again please..."
+MAX_FETCHED_HEADLINES = (
+    10  # Maximum number of news headlines to fetch when news function is called
+)
 
 
 class Assistant:
@@ -130,6 +133,9 @@ def execute_query(self, query: str) -> None:
             )  # Extract the city name just after the word 'of'
             commands.weather_reporter(self.__voice_interface, cities[0])
 
+        elif "news" in query:
+            commands.fetch_news(self.__voice_interface, MAX_FETCHED_HEADLINES)
+
         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
@@ -296,6 +297,37 @@ def simple_scroll(direction: str) -> None:
         print("Invalid direction")
 
 
+def fetch_news(vi: VoiceInterface, max_fetched_headlines: int) -> None:
+    """
+    Fetches and reads out the top 5 headlines from the Google News RSS feed.
+
+    This function fetches news headlines from the Google News RSS feed (specific to India in English).
+    It then reads out the top 5 headlines using the provided VoiceInterface instance. If the feed fetch is successful,
+    it reads the headlines one by one. If the fetch fails, it informs the user that the news couldn't be fetched.
+
+    Args:
+        vi (VoiceInterface): The VoiceInterface instance used to speak the news headlines.
+
+    Raises:
+        requests.exceptions.RequestException: If there is an issue while fetching the RSS feed.
+        AttributeError: If the feed does not contain expected attributes or entries.
+    """
+
+    feed_url = "https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-IN&gl=IN&ceid=IN:en"
+
+    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.")
+
+
 def weather_reporter(vi: VoiceInterface, city_name: str) -> None:
     """
     Fetches and reports the weather conditions for a given city.