get_news {newscatcheR}

Get news Get the contents of a rss feed

Description

Get news Get the contents of a rss feed

Usage

get_news(website = "ycombinator.com", topic = NULL, rss_table = package_rss)

Arguments

website

a url of a new source in the format "news.ycombinator.com"

topic

the topic of the feed, by default it is NULL which means it will fetch the "main" feed. topics are 'tech', 'news', 'business', 'science', 'finance', 'food', 'politics', 'economics', 'travel', 'entertainment', 'music', 'sport', 'world', but not all site have all topics. use describe_url("website") to check for available feeds.

rss_table

a dataframe with urls and rss feeds in case you need to construct your own out of websites not in the included database. Be sure to have the same format as the included data. See ?package_rss for details.

Value

a tibble containing the contents of the rss feed

Examples

## Not run: 
Sys.sleep(3) # adding a small time delay to avoid
# simultaneous posts to the API
get_news(website = "ycombinator.com", rss_table = package_rss)

## End(Not run)