Added Google news scraper

Author: avidLearnerInProgress

gnews-scraper/gnews.py

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+import urllib2
+from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
+
+def get_google_new_results( term, count ):
+    results = []
+    obj = parseString( urllib2.urlopen('http://news.google.com/news?q=%s&output=rss' % term).read() )
+    items = obj.getElementsByTagName('item') # Get each item
+    for item in items[:count]:
+        t,l = '', ''
+        for node in item.childNodes:
+            if node.nodeName == 'title':
+                t = node.childNodes[0].data
+            elif node.nodeName == 'link':
+                l = node.childNodes[0].data
+        results.append( (t,l) )
+    return results
+
+
+print "Enter term to scrape from"
+x = str(raw_input(""))
+
+items = get_google_new_results( x, 50 )
+for title,link in items:
+	print title, ' ', link, '\n'