Update app.py

app.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from smolagents import CodeAgent,DuckDuckGoSearchTool, HfApiModel,load_tool,tool
 import datetime
 import requests
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 import pytz
 import yaml
 from tools.final_answer import FinalAnswerTool
@@ -21,18 +22,21 @@ search_tool = DuckDuckGoSearchTool()
 def get_latest_news() -> Dict[str, List[Dict]]:
     """
     Tool returns latest news from major news outlets using RSS feeds.
-    Uses only built-in Python libraries.
+    Uses verified RSS feed URLs and detailed error reporting.
     Returns:
         Dict[str, List[Dict]]: A dictionary where keys are news sources and values are lists of news items.
     """
+    # Verified working RSS feeds
     rss_feeds = {
         "Reuters": {
-            "World": "https://www.rss.reuters.com/world",
-            "Business": "https://www.rss.reuters.com/business"
+            "Top News": "https://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews",
+            "Business": "https://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/businessNews",
+            "World": "https://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/worldNews"
         },
-        "CNN": {
-            "Top Stories": "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss",
-            "World": "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_world.rss"
+        "NPR": {
+            "News": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml",
+            "World": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml",
+            "Business": "https://feeds.npr.org/1006/rss.xml"
         }
     }
 
@@ -43,10 +47,14 @@ def get_latest_news() -> Dict[str, List[Dict]]:
         
         for feed_name, feed_url in feeds.items():
             try:
-                # Add headers to avoid potential blocks
+                # Add modern browser headers
                 headers = {
-                    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36'
+                    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36',
+                    'Accept': 'application/rss+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
                 }
+                
+                print(f"Fetching {source} - {feed_name} from {feed_url}")  # Debug info
+                
                 req = urllib.request.Request(feed_url, headers=headers)
                 response = urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=10)
                 xml_data = response.read().decode('utf-8')
@@ -54,8 +62,12 @@ def get_latest_news() -> Dict[str, List[Dict]]:
                 # Parse XML
                 root = ET.fromstring(xml_data)
                 
-                # Find all item elements (news articles)
-                for item in root.findall('.//item')[:5]:  # Get top 5 stories
+                # RSS feeds typically have channel/item structure
+                items = root.findall('.//item')
+                if not items:
+                    items = root.findall('./channel/item')  # Alternative path
+                
+                for item in items[:5]:  # Get top 5 stories
                     title = item.find('title')
                     link = item.find('link')
                     pub_date = item.find('pubDate')
@@ -70,11 +82,15 @@ def get_latest_news() -> Dict[str, List[Dict]]:
                     }
                     
                     news_items[source].append(news_item)
+                
+                print(f"Successfully fetched {len(items)} items from {source} - {feed_name}")  # Debug info
                     
             except Exception as e:
+                error_message = f"Error fetching {feed_name} feed from {source}: {str(e)}"
+                print(error_message)  # Debug info
                 news_items[source].append({
                     'category': feed_name,
-                    'title': f"Error fetching {feed_name} feed: {str(e)}",
+                    'title': error_message,
                     'link': '',
                     'published': '',
                     'summary': ''
@@ -82,6 +98,8 @@ def get_latest_news() -> Dict[str, List[Dict]]:
     
     return news_items
 
+
+
 final_answer = FinalAnswerTool()
 
 # If the agent does not answer, the model is overloaded, please use another model or the following Hugging Face Endpoint that also contains qwen2.5 coder: