lanews

News extractor from latimes

Installation

To use, install one of the following options:

• rcc cli
• robocorp vscode extensions
• robocorp cloud

Usage

To use locally, just change the work-items.json, insert the phrase that you want to search, also specify the topics and months, for example:

{
  "payload": {
    "phrase": "lakers",
    "period": 2,
    "topics": ["sports"]
  },
  "files": {}
}

IMPORTANT: if you don't want to specify a topic, just leave an empty array in the topics.

This will search lakers on sports topic and get the latest 2 months of news. After will save in the /output dir an output.xlsx file and a pictures dir that contains all extracted data, like:

• title
• description
• date
• picture
• count of search phrases in the title and description
• if the title or description contains any amount of money

Then run following the instructions of your installation option :)

Quality Code

To ensure a quality code run pre-commit before making a PR. Install the pre-commit on your environment or create an environment and install it. After, run:

pre-commit run --all-files