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The News Boy

News scrapping from various sites | View it through Emails | Hear it as a podcast!

Install / Use

npx skills add andrew-geeks/The-News-Boy

Installs into whichever agent you are using.

README

The News Boy

The News Boy is a python program to send Email of latest news & top-stories scrapped from various sites, create podcasts from scrapped data, and many more! It uses geckodriver, BeautifulSoup to access the websites.

Build Status Known Vulnerabilities codecov.io Code Coverage

Releases

Latest Release: v1.1.0

All releases can be found at the releases page!

Updates

New feature: Business news

Outlook mail provision added!

Libraries Used

  1. Selenium
  2. smtplib
  3. BeautifulSoup
  4. gtts

Driver & Browser

  1. Geckodriver (driver)
  2. Mozilla Firefox (browser--latest version)

Installation

pip install selenium
pip install secure-smtplib
pip install gTTS
pip install beautifulsoup4

Data

Times of India:https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

Times of India(Business): https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business

IndiaToday: https://www.indiatoday.in/

IndianExpress: https://indianexpress.com

BloombergQuint: https://www.bloombergquint.com

Mailing

Sometimes the mail received may be on the junk folder. Please have a look on it.

As of now mails can be sent only from Gmail.

About & Contact

Created by: Andrew George Issac

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_andrewissac

Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewgeorge002

Related Skills

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GitHub Stars10
CategoryDevelopment
Updated5mo ago
Forks0

Languages

Python

Security Score

92/100

Audited on Mar 5, 2026

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