help with news feeds

[ninjacd]

Hi guys,

Can anyone help with this? I have a client that needs a site with news feeds like AP(Associated Press) but He only wants news feeds that deal with crime and only in Michigan I plan on doing this site in Word Press if that helps.

[Paulie_D]

What have you tried?…That’s kind of a broad request.

[ninjacd]

I’m trying to find news feeds on crime in Michigan but i can’t find any rss feeds on just that so I’m looking for ideas

[Alen]

Try using Google News:

https://news.google.com/news?q=Michigan&output=rss

[ninjacd]

what I’m wondering is if anybody knows of any plug-ins or code I could use to filter out all the stories that are not about crime or being arrested?

[Alen]

As far as plug-ins go I’m not sure if there are any for what you’re trying to achieve. I haven’t looked or done the research

Anyhow, if you need help parsing the RSS, you can do something like:

# This would come from the form request
# http://localhost.dev/?request=Michigan%20Crime
# $request = $_GET["request"];
$request = 'Michigan%20Crime';

$rss_feed= implode(file('https://news.google.com/news?q='.$request.'&output=rss'));
$xml = simplexml_load_string($rss_feed);
$json = json_encode($xml);
$rss= json_decode($json,TRUE);

foreach($rss["channel"]["item"] as $item) {
    // var_dump($item);
    echo '<h3><a href="'.$item["link"].'">'.$item["title"].'</a></h3>';
}

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