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import ssl

from urllib.request import urlopen

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup

def news(xml_news_url, counter):

"""Print select details from a html response containing xml

@param xml_news_url: url to parse

"""

context = ssl._create_unverified_context()

Client = urlopen(xml_news_url, context=context)

xml_page = Client.read()

Client.close()

soup_page = soup(xml_page, "xml")

news_list = soup_page.findAll("item")

i = 0 # counter to print n number of news items

for news in news_list:

print(f"news title: {news.title.text}") # to print title of the news

print(f"news link: {news.link.text}") # to print link of the news

print(f"news pubDate: {news.pubDate.text}") # to print published date

print("+-" * 20, "\n\n")

if i == counter:

break

i = i + 1

# you can add google news 'xml' URL here for any country/category

news_url = "https://news.google.com/news/rss/?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en"

sports_url = "https://news.google.com/news/rss/headlines/section/topic/SPORTS.en_in/Sports?ned=in&hl=en-IN&gl=IN"

# now call news function with any of these url or BOTH

news(news_url, 10)

news(sports_url, 5)