node-gnews

A simple node module that loads articles from Google News

Overview

This is an unofficial node module that allows you to easily load articles from Google News via its RSS feed and convert them into JavaScript Object.

Strongly inspired by google-news-rss, but tweaked a bit.

Install

npm install node-gnews --save

or in case you use yarn:

yarn add node-gnews

Usage

Clone this repo and open ./samples to run.

Get headlines

Load headlines and return it as an array.

const Gnews = require('node-gnews').Gnews;
const instance = new Gnews();
 
// Headlines for topics
instance.headlines().then(articles => console.log(articles)); // -> display headlines in U.S.

Get headlines in topic

Load headlines in a certain topic. Visit Google News and you will see SECTIONS on the left sidebar as below.

If you click one, the address should be something like https://news.google.com/news/headlines/section/topic/WORLD?ned=us&hl=en&gl=US. In this case, WORLD would be a topic for the content and you can pass it as a first argument of headlines().

instance.headlines('WORLD').then(articles => console.log(articles)); // -> display headlines of 'World' topic.

Note that topics may not be available on every language. Please make sure that the topic is available on a language you are going to use on a browser.

Search

Search for keywords

instance.search('Nintendo').then(articles => console.log(articles)); // -> Search result

Change Region (and more)

You may pass optional parameters to change region. As a default, the library will load news in the U.S.

For example, if you change the region to Japan on news.google.com, its URL will be

https://news.google.com/news/?ned=jp&hl=ja&gl=JP

Three parameters: 'ned', 'hl' and 'gl' decide which region to load articles from so that you can use it to change the locale.

const Gnews = require('node-gnews').Gnews;
const instance = new Gnews({
  ned: 'jp',
  hl: 'ja',
  gl: 'JP'
}); // Set Japanese as a default
 
instance
  .headlines()
  .then(articles => console.log(articles)); // -> Japanese Headlines
 
instance.search('Doctor Who',{
  ned: 'uk',
  hl: 'en-GB',
  gl: 'GB'
}).then(articles => console.log(articles)); // -> Search "Doctor Who" in U.K.

All the values in the second argument will be used as parameters to load RSS so you may use it for different purposes.

Article Properties

Property	Description	Example
title	title of the article	The Last Jedi spoiler talk: Mark Hamill discusses the secrets of Luke Skywalker's return
link	link to the article	http://ew.com/movies/2017/12/16/the-last-jedi-spoilers-rian-johnson-mark-hamill-luke-skywalker-revelations/
category	category of the article	More Top Stories
pubDate	Date the article was published	Sat, 16 Dec 2017 16:00:29 GMT
description	HTML to guide related articles	Click to see example
publisher	Publisher of the article	EW.com
fullCoverage	Link to the Google News Related Stories	https://news.google.com/story/dOHKnaQodeaDspMmZOqoGu4YGQ47M?hl=en&ned=us (expired)
related	Array of related stories. Each has title, link and publisher	Click to see example
thumbnailUrl	Thumbnail image url. Omitted when not available.	https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzlMagnYwijdaLtdc4MWJopShsC9vRGDh-_LKP9GlJ_ofu6J8OyUFdlebTu4e1JT6mb0_YY7Lw59M