pset8 /articles retrieve only the onion rss feed

Question

I implemented articles in application.py Pset8. Everything seems ok except i only get articles from theonion and not from actual google news.Here's the code :

def articles():
"""Look up articles for geo."""

#retrieving geo value from HTML form
location = request.args.get("geo")
if not location:
    raise RuntimeError("geo value not sent")

#lookup
article = lookup(location)

#jsonify
return jsonify(article[0:5])

Here's the code for lookup function ,given in the distribution code.

def lookup(geo):
"""Looks up articles for geo."""

# check cache for geo
if geo in lookup.cache:
    return lookup.cache[geo]

# get feed from Google
feed = feedparser.parse("http://news.google.com/news?geo={}&output=rss".format(urllib.parse.quote(geo, safe="")))

# if no items in feed, get feed from Onion
if not feed["items"]:
    feed = feedparser.parse("http://www.theonion.com/feeds/rss")

# cache results
lookup.cache[geo] = [{"link": item["link"], "title": item["title"]} for item in feed["items"]]

# return results
return lookup.cache[geo]

# initialize cache
lookup.cache = {}

Even if i use different values for geo, it returns theonion RSS feed.Is there any problem in the code? Help me with this. Thanks :)

Answer 1

I'm guessing the problem is as depicted in this post (first answer) as I had the same problem myself:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cs50/comments/4clxp0/pset_8_articles_are_showing_but_the_onion/

Basically the code is fine, but google detects spam so stops returning articles to the user (at least according to delipity).