Google News Top Stories Scraper

gnews-top-stories.js

var request = require('request');
var cheerio = require('cheerio');

request('https://news.google.com/', function(error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    getTopStories(body);
  } else {
    console.error(error);
    console.error('Status Code: ' + response.statusCode);
  }
});

function getTopStories(body) {
  var $ = cheerio.load(body);
  var topStories = [];
  $('#nav-topic-list .topic a').each(function(index, elem) {
    topStories.push($(elem).text());
  });

  return topStories;
}