Google News Fetcher

This utility provides a Google News headline scraper using the google-news-json package. It no longer requires any API keys, making it ideal for beginners who want to experiment with news-driven trading ideas or sentiment analysis without signing up for external services.

Quick Start

cd "UTILS - News Fetching"
npm install
node fetchNews.js

Follow the interactive prompts to: - enter a company name or keyword (e.g., AAPL, stock market, inflation) - choose a locale (default en-US) - specify how many articles to retrieve (default 10)

Features

Keyword-driven Google News search
Locale support (language-country format such as en-US, fr-FR)
Configurable number of headlines to display
Beginner-friendly comments and console guidance

Files

fetchNews.js – interactive CLI script powered by google-news-json
package.json – dependency list (google-news-json only)

Notes

Results are scraped from Google News RSS feeds. Availability may vary by region and topic.
Google may rate-limit excessive requests. Keep usage reasonable.
Extend the script by saving article data to CSV/JSON, or by integrating with the sentiment analysis utility in UTILS - Sentiment Analysis on News/.

Beginner Python walkthroughs in Documentation/Programs/level1_fundamentals.py
Sentiment analysis workflow in UTILS - Sentiment Analysis on News/

License

MIT