Merge pull request sanscript-tech#242 from TaniaMalhotra/news-assistant-nodejs

News assistant in node

Author: tejan-singh

JavaScript/news-assistant/.gitignore

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+package-lock.json
+node_modules

JavaScript/news-assistant/README.md

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+# News assistant
+- - - - - - - - -
+## Aim
+
+The aim of this script is to read out the top headlines of your favourite news category</br>
+Categories you can choose from are:</br>
+- business
+- entertainment
+- general
+- health
+- science
+- sports
+- technology
+
+## Requirements
+```npm install newsapi --save```</br>
+```npm install prompt-sync```</br>
+```npm install say```</br>
+
+## To use:
+- ```node .```
+- Get and enter your API key by registering at https://newsapi.org/register
+- Enter the category from the above listed categories
+- Sit back and listen to the latest news headlines :)

JavaScript/news-assistant/index.js

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+const NewsAPI = require('newsapi');
+const prompt = require('prompt-sync')();
+// automatically pick platform
+const say = require('say')
+
+const api = prompt('Please enter your API key after registering at https://newsapi.org/register : ')
+const newsapi = new NewsAPI(api);
+
+// To query top headlines
+// All options passed to topHeadlines are optional, but you need to include at least one of them
+str = ""
+const category = prompt('Please enter the category of news from the following: business, entertainment, general, health, science, sports and technology: ');
+newsapi.v2.topHeadlines({
+  category: category,
+  language: 'en',
+  country: 'us'
+}).then(response => {
+  //if number of rsponses are less than 5, we set l to that number otherwise it's 5
+  l = response["articles"].length>5?5:response["articles"].length;
+  for (i = 0; i < l; i++) {
+  console.log(response["articles"][i]["title"])
+  str = str + response["articles"][i]["title"] + ". "
+}
+say.speak(str)
+}
+);

JavaScript/news-assistant/news-assistant/index.js

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+const NewsAPI = require('newsapi');
+const prompt = require('prompt-sync')();
+// automatically pick platform
+const say = require('say')
+
+const api = prompt('Please enter your API key after registering at https://newsapi.org/register : ')
+const newsapi = new NewsAPI(api);
+
+// To query top headlines
+// All options passed to topHeadlines are optional, but you need to include at least one of them
+str = ""
+const category = prompt('Please enter the category of news from the following: business, entertainment, general, health, science, sports and technology: ');
+newsapi.v2.topHeadlines({
+  category: category,
+  language: 'en',
+  country: 'us'
+}).then(response => {
+  //if number of rsponses are less than 5, we set l to that number otherwise it's 5
+  l = response["articles"].length>5?5:response["articles"].length;
+  for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
+  console.log(response["articles"][i]["title"])
+  str = str + response["articles"][i]["title"] + ". "
+}
+say.speak(str)
+}
+);

JavaScript/news-assistant/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "news-assistant",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "A news assistant to read out your favourite news",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "author": "Tania Malhotra",
+  "license": "ISC",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "json-query": "^2.2.2",
+    "prompt-sync": "^4.2.0",
+    "say": "^0.16.0"
+  }
+}