news.py

import pycountry, datetime, requests,json


def return_news(country):
    countryClass=pycountry.countries.get(name=country)
    code=countryClass.alpha_2
    Previous_Date = datetime.datetime.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=15)
    dt=str(Previous_Date)[:10]

    url_practice="https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?q=COVID&from="+dt+"&sortBy=popularity&apiKey=565324e8912a47cdbce2d37b8639d5ed&pageSize=100&page=1&country="+code

    payload = {}
    headers= {}

    response = requests.request("GET", url_practice, headers=headers, data = payload)
    json_data = response.json()

    answer=list()
    for i in range(len(json_data['articles'])):
        answer.append([json_data['articles'][i]['source']['name'],json_data['articles'][i]['title'],json_data['articles'][i]['url']])

    news = cleaning_news(answer)
    return news


def cleaning_news(news):
    list_of_news = []
    for list_news in news:
        headlines = str(list_news[1]).replace('- {}'.format(list_news[0]), '')
        stringNews = 'Source -  {}\n{} \n {}\n'.format(list_news[0], headlines, list_news[2])
        list_of_news.append(stringNews)
    return list_of_news

print(return_news('India'))