Reads the RSS feed of BBC News and uses the Python Sengrid API to write a quiz to your mailbox.
At this moment, have trouble deploying to Heroku (since it uses NLTK) in the meantime enjoy this script.
I won a Sphero out of it, with help of Swift at API Hackday NYC 2013.
| import urllib, nltk, sendgrid | |
| from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup | |
| def parse(x): | |
| if(x[1] == 'NNS'): | |
| y = '___' | |
| else: | |
| y = x[0] | |
| return y | |
| world = 'http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml' | |
| politics = 'http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/politics/rss.xml' | |
| science = 'http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/science_and_environment/rss.xml' | |
| url = {'world': world, 'politics':politics, 'science':science } | |
| def quiz(url): | |
| xml = urllib.urlopen(url).read() | |
| soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xml) | |
| articles = soup.findAll('item') | |
| html = '<span style="font:courier;">' | |
| for x in articles[:10]: | |
| html += '<h3>%s</h3><p>%s</p>'%(x.title.text,''.join([parse(y)+' ' for y in nltk.pos_tag(nltk.word_tokenize(x.description.text))[:-1]])+'.') | |
| #print nltk.pos_tag(nltk.word_tokenize(x.description.text)) | |
| html += '<p><a href="%s">Answers</a></p>'%(url) | |
| html += '</span>' | |
| # make a secure connection to SendGrid | |
| s = sendgrid.Sendgrid('username', 'password', secure=True) | |
| # make a message object | |
| message = sendgrid.Message("[email protected]", "BBC World News Quiz", None,html) | |
| # add a recipient | |
| message.add_to("[email protected]", "Jada Lopez") | |
| # use the Web API to send your message | |
| s.web.send(message) | |
| return html | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| quiz(science) |
An Algerian military raid to free ___ at a desert gas plant is over , Algeria 's state news agency says , with a number of ___ reported killed in the operation .
Match-fixing in football now generates ___ of ___ of ___ per year - ___ comparable to big multinational ___ , Interpol warns .
US aviation ___ order the country 's ___ to ground Boeing 's 787 Dreamliner , after a battery fault on one of the aircraft in Japan .
The Pakistani government reaches a deal with cleric Tahirul Qadri to end his mass protest , agreeing to dissolve the National Assembly before its term ___ .
France ___ its troop strength in Mali to 1,400 to help fight militant ___ in the north , the French defence minister says .
The Delhi gang rape case , which has shocked India and sparked a debate about its treatment of ___ , is moved to a fast-track court for trial .
___ in south-east Turkey pour onto the ___ for the ___ of three Kurdish ___ killed in Paris .
Pakistan 's foreign minister calls for ___ with her Indian counterpart to defuse military ___ in Kashmir .
A series of bomb ___ across Iraq has killed at least 12 ___ , most of them Shia pilgrims , ___ say .
Somali Islamist group al-Shabab says it has killed French intelligence agent Denis Allex in retaliation for a failed French operation to free him .