Installation

These docs cover news-fetch 1.0.0 (PyPI).

Requires Python 3.10+.

From PyPI

pip install "news-fetch==1.0.0"
# or latest 1.x:
pip install "news-fetch>=1.0.0"

Optional extras

pip install news-fetch[async]     # httpx-powered async fetch
pip install news-fetch[browser]   # Playwright render / fallback
# then for browser:
playwright install chromium

Disk cache and respect_robots are built into the core package (stdlib SQLite / urllib.robotparser) — no extra install required.

From source

git clone https://github.com/santhoshse7en/news-fetch.git
cd news-fetch
pip install .
# or for development:
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Dependencies

Core (kept intentionally small):

Package	Role
lxml	HTML parsing
cssselect	CSS selectors
requests	Sync HTTP
python-dateutil	Date parsing

Not in core: newspaper4k, BeautifulSoup, NLTK, Playwright, Pydantic.

CLI

Installing the package registers the news-fetch console script:

news-fetch --version