newsreader

A Python script that scrapes an online RSS feed for top news, and displays it in a Tkinter-based GUI application. Also, periodically checks for any news updates.

Details

1. The RSS feed used is Times Of India RSS Feed. This url is defined at the beginning of the script.
2. The program checks for news updates every minute. This time period is defined at the beginning of the script.

Libraries used

1. requests

For establishing connection with the online feed and retrieving HTML and XML text.

2. beautifulsoup4

Parses HTML and XML text to obtain the top news items from various categories.

3. tkinter

The GUI toolkit included with Python.

4. threading

Required for background news checking in parallel to the GUI mainloop.

newsreader2

Has the additional feature of notifying the user via a desktop notification.

Note that you need dbus and its dependencies, in addition to the package notify2, for the notification feature.