Update Google_News.py

Used a variable counter to list the number of news a user want to see otherwise it shows more than 30+ news items at a time.

Google_News.py

@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
 
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
 
-
-def news(xml_news_url):
+def news(xml_news_url,counter):
     '''Print select details from a html response containing xml
       @param xml_news_url: url to parse
       '''
@@ -17,18 +16,22 @@ def news(xml_news_url):
     soup_page = soup(xml_page, "xml")
 
     news_list = soup_page.findAll("item")
+    i = 0  # counter to print n number of news items
 
     for news in news_list:
-        print(f'news title:   {news.title.text}')
-        print(f'news link:    {news.link.text}')
-        print(f'news pubDate: {news.pubDate.text}')
+        print(f'news title:   {news.title.text}')    # to print title of the news
+        print(f'news link:    {news.link.text}')     # to print link of the news
+        print(f'news pubDate: {news.pubDate.text}')  # to print published date
         print("+-" * 20, "\n\n")
-
+
+        if i == counter :
+          break
+        i = i + 1
 
 # you can add google news 'xml' URL here for any country/category
 news_url = "https://news.google.com/news/rss/?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en"
 sports_url = "https://news.google.com/news/rss/headlines/section/topic/SPORTS.en_in/Sports?ned=in&hl=en-IN&gl=IN"
 
 # now call news function with any of these url or BOTH
-news(news_url)
-news(sports_url)
+news(news_url,10)    
+news(sports_url,5)