Javier Bezos wrote:
> Google News used to fail with the high level functions provided by httplib
> and the like. However, I found this piece of code somewhere:
>
> def gopen():
> http = httplib.HTTPSConnection('news.google.com')
> http.request("GET","/news?ned=es_MX" ,
When you change that to
http.request("GET","/news/headlines?ned=es_mx&hl=es" ,
you get a non-empty return. Most of the actual content seems to be buried in
javascript though.
> headers =
> {"User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-MX)
> AppleWebKit/532.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.277.0 Safari/532.8",
> "Host":'news.google.com',
> "Accept": "*/*"})
> return http.getresponse()
>
> A few days ago, Google News has been revamped and it doesn't work any more
> (2.6/Win7, 2.7/OSX and, with minimal changes, 3.6/Win7), because the page
> contents is empty. The code itself doesn't raise any errors. Which is the
> proper way to do it now? I must stick to the standard libraries.
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