In The News¶ ↑

A simple ruby parser for Wikipedia’s “In the News” box on the (english-language) homepage.

Install the gem

gem install inthenews

Then fetch the current news items

@news = InTheNews::Parser.new
items = @news.items

Items have text

items.first.text #=> "The Supreme Court of Pakistan retroactively discharges Yousaf Raza Gillani from the prime ministership due to his contempt of court conviction."

And associated topics (other related wikipedia pages)

items.first.topics #=> ['Supreme_Court_of_Pakistan', 'Yousaf_Raza_Gillani', 'Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan', 'Contempt_of_court']