Add news feeds for more countries

[krisgesling]

A generic issue thread for the addition of new feeds or stations, particularly for countries that aren't yet represented. Contributions are warmly welcomed!

A list of the existing feeds can be found here:

skill-npr-news/__init__.py

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	FEEDS = {
	"other" : ("your custom feed", None),
	"custom" : ("your custom feed", None),
	"ABC" : ("ABC News Australia", "https://rss.whooshkaa.com/rss/podcast/id/2381"),
	"AP" : ("AP Hourly Radio News", "http://www.spreaker.com/show/1401466/episodes/feed"),
	"BBC" : ("BBC News", "http://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"),
	"CBC" : ("CBC News", "http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/hourlynews.xml"),
	"DLF" : ("DLF", "https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/podcast-nachrichten.1257.de.podcast.xml"),
	"Ekot" : ("Ekot", "https://api.sr.se/api/rss/pod/3795"),
	"FOX" : ("Fox News", "http://feeds.foxnewsradio.com/FoxNewsRadio"),
	"NPR" : ("NPR News Now", "http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=500005"),
	"PBS" : ("PBS NewsHour", "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"),
	"VRT" : ("VRT Nieuws", "https://progressive-audio.lwc.vrtcdn.be/content/fixed/11_11niws-snip_hi.mp3"),
	"WDR" : ("WDR", "https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr-aktuell-news/wdr-aktuell-152.podcast"),
	"YLE" : ("YLE", "https://feeds.yle.fi/areena/v1/series/1-1440981.rss")
	}

New feeds being proposed must include:

• Title - eg "AP Hourly Radio News"
• Shortcode - eg "AP"
• Feed URL - eg "http://www.spreaker.com/show/1401466/episodes/feed"
  The feed URL may be an RSS feed or a direct audio feed.
• Alternative names that may be used by a user - eg "Associated Press"
• Logo - a (preferably square) logo to display on any GUI available.

[JarbasAl]

• RDP, RDP Africa [PT] - http://www.rtp.pt//play/itunes/5442
• RNE, National Spanish Radio [ES] - http://api.rtve.es/api/programas/36019/audios.rs

NOTE these feeds can't be used directly

• TSF [PT]

import requests

def get_tsf():
        feed = "https://www.tsf.pt/stream/audio/{year}/{month:02d}/noticias/{day:02d}/not{hour:02d}.mp3"
        uri = None
        i = 0
        status = 404
        while status != 200 and i < 5:
            uri = feed.format(hour=date.hour, year=date.year, month=date.month, day=date.day)
            status = requests.get(uri).status_code
            i += 1
        return uri

• GBP, Georgia Public Radio

def get_gbp():
        feed = "http://feeds.feedburner.com/gpbnews/GeorgiaRSS?format=xml"
        data = feedparser.parse(feed)
        next_link = data["entries"][0]["links"][0]["href"]
        html = requests.get(next_link)
        # Find the first mp3 link
        # Note that the latest mp3 may not be news,
        # but could be an interview, etc.
        mp3_find = re.search(b'href="(?P<mp3>.+\.mp3)"', html.content)
        if mp3_find is None:
            return None
        url = mp3_find.group("mp3").decode("utf-8")
        return url

[krisgesling]

Thanks Jarbas - PR #50 is in motion!

[mantasbandonis]

Title - "Ö3 Nachrichten"
Shortcode - "OE3"
Feed URL (can be used directly) - "https://oe3meta.orf.at/oe3mdata/StaticAudio/Nachrichten.mp3"
Alternative names that may be used by a user - "Hitradio Ö3", "Austrian News"
Country - Austria (AT)

[dcstang]

Title - "Financial Times News Briefing"
Shortcode - "FT"
Feed URL (cant be used directly) - "https://www.ft.com/newsbriefing"
Alternative names that may be used by a user - "FT News"
Country - United Kingdom (UK)

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.request import urlopen
from datetime import date

def ft():
    """Custom news fetcher for today's FT news briefing"""
    url = 'https://www.ft.com/newsbriefing'
    page = urlopen(url)

    #init today's date
    today = date.today()
    d1 = today.strftime('%A, %d %B, %Y')

    #use bs4 to parse website and get mp3 link
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page, features='html.parser')
    result = soup.find('time')

    # check if div matches today's date
    if result.contents == [d1]:
        targetDiv = result.parent.find_next('div')
        targetURL = 'http://www.ft.com' + targetDiv.a['href']

        mp3URL = targetURL
        mp3Page = urlopen(mp3URL)
        mp3Soup = BeautifulSoup(mp3Page, features='html.parser')

        return mp3Soup.find('source')['src']

This is a channel that I use daily. Thought of contributing it so that others can use it as well. Unfortunately had to use bs4 because the mp3 links are hidden behind a second page!

[krisgesling]

Thanks @dcstang this looks great!

Given that it all looks good to go, feel free to create a PR directly. We love to keep a record of community contributions. But if you don't have time I can get this integrated for you.

[dcstang]

Contributing to open source is awesome! Have put it in as #73.

[denics]

Hello guys! while I was trying to add RAI Radio 1 to your great skill, I came with an idea: why don't do a plugin mechanism with a file per feed and the file can return or a feed RSS type or an audio file to play directly?

[krisgesling]

Hey Denics, very open if you have suggestions on better ways to organize the feeds. A full-blown plugin system might be overkill, but may depend on whether the plugins must be installed by the user or just in the skill?

[denics]

Hi @krisgesling I was thinking more about a "drop in" plugins folder, with one file per radio. As I said, I am for example adding Radio Rai 1. Instead of putting my hands in your code with the risk to break everything or doing a pull request that can potentially compromise something, it could be more useful for advanced users, to drop in that folder a file radiorai1.py (or whatever naming convention defined by you) that can return OR an RSS feed OR an MP3/ASF/nameit stream.

[thorstenMueller]

Hi @krisgesling .
I've added a german newsstation (feed) for the state of Hessen in PR #96 .
Maybe (hopefully) it's helpful.

[denics]

Hi @krisgesling shall we close this issue?

[krisgesling]

Yeah it's definitely dated - I'll add a new version when we are ready to completely add new stations.