Package: newscatcheR 0.1.3

Novica Nakov

newscatcheR: Programmatically Collect Normalized News from (Almost) Any Website

Fetch news from the 'RSS' (Really Simple Syndication) feeds of thousands of news websites without having to look up the feed addresses. Bundles a lookup table of news sites and their feeds, which can be filtered by topic, country and language. Feeds are parsed with 'tidyRSS' and returned as tidy data frames of full entries or headlines. An 'R' clone of the <https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher> 'Python' module.

Authors:Novica Nakov [aut, cre], Teofil Nakov [ctb], Artem Bugara [ctb], Discindo [cph]

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# Install 'newscatcheR' in R:

install.packages('newscatcheR', repos = c('https://discindo.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/discindo/newscatcher/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://discindo.github.io

Datasets:

package_rss - RSS table from python package newscatcher

On CRAN:

news-sites newscatcher rss-feed tidyrss quarto

6.13 score 30 stars 7 scripts 387 downloads 4 exports 28 dependencies

Last updated from:072c2159b1. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel	OK	176
source / vignettes	OK	202
linux-release	OK	158
macos-release	OK	246
macos-oldrel	OK	271
windows-devel	OK	133
windows-release	OK	170
windows-oldrel	OK	140
wasm-release	OK	119

Exports:describe_url filter_urls get_headlines get_news

Dependencies:anytime askpass BH cli curl dplyr generics glue httr jsonlite lifecycle magrittr mime openssl pillar pkgconfig purrr R6 Rcpp rlang sys tibble tidyRSS tidyselect utf8 vctrs withr xml2

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Last update: 2026-10-16
Started: 2026-10-16

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Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Describe URL	describe_url
Filter URLs in the provided database based on topic, country and language	filter_urls
Get headlines A helper function to get just the headlines of the feed	get_headlines
Get news Get the contents of a rss feed	get_news
RSS table from python package newscatcher	package_rss
Show countries Show all countries in the database.	show_countries
Show languages Show all languages in the database.	show_languages
Show topics Show all topics in the database.	show_topics