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Create a news summarization bot

Here’s a simple News Summarization Bot you can build using Python. This bot fetches news from an RSS feed or a provided URL, extracts the article content, and generates a summary using the sumy or transformers library. Below is a basic version using RSS feeds and the sumy summarizer for clarity and simplicity:


✅ Features:

  • Fetch latest news from RSS feeds (e.g., BBC, CNN)

  • Extract article content

  • Summarize the news in a concise format


📦 Prerequisites

Install the following Python libraries:

bash
pip install feedparser newspaper3k sumy

🧠 Code: News Summarization Bot

python
import feedparser from newspaper import Article from sumy.parsers.plaintext import PlaintextParser from sumy.nlp.tokenizers import Tokenizer from sumy.summarizers.lsa import LsaSummarizer def get_news_links(feed_url, limit=5): feed = feedparser.parse(feed_url) return [entry.link for entry in feed.entries[:limit]] def extract_article_text(url): article = Article(url) article.download() article.parse() return article.title, article.text def summarize_text(text, sentence_count=5): parser = PlaintextParser.from_string(text, Tokenizer("english")) summarizer = LsaSummarizer() summary = summarizer(parser.document, sentence_count) return " ".join(str(sentence) for sentence in summary) def summarize_news_from_rss(rss_url): links = get_news_links(rss_url) for url in links: try: title, content = extract_article_text(url) summary = summarize_text(content) print(f"n📰 {title}n🔗 {url}n📝 Summary:n{summary}n") except Exception as e: print(f"Error processing {url}: {e}") # Example: BBC RSS Feed rss_feed_url = "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml" summarize_news_from_rss(rss_feed_url)

🧪 Output Example

csharp
📰 Ukraine war: Russia strikes Kharkiv with guided bombs 🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-xxxxxxx 📝 Summary: Russian airstrikes hit civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv using advanced weaponry. Several casualties reported. Ukraine continues its counteroffensive amid rising international concerns over escalation.

🔄 Optional Enhancements

  • Replace sumy with a transformer-based summarizer (transformers library)

  • Create a Flask or FastAPI app to deploy this as a web service

  • Store summaries in a database

  • Add keyword/topic filtering

Would you like a version that uses GPT-style summarization or a web interface?

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