import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from langchain_core.tools import tool @tool def get_recent_news(ticker: str) -> str: """ Fetches the most recent news headlines for a given stock ticker. CRITICAL INSTRUCTIONS: 1. 'ticker': Must be the official uppercase ticker symbol (e.g., AAPL). DO NOT pass the full company name. 2. Use this tool to gauge current market sentiment, breaking news, and short-term catalysts. """ try: ticker = ticker.upper() print(f"\n[System: Fetching latest news for {ticker} via Yahoo Finance RSS...]") # Hit the official Yahoo Finance RSS endpoint url = f"https://feeds.finance.yahoo.com/rss/2.0/headline?s={ticker}®ion=US&lang=en-US" # A standard web browser User-Agent so Yahoo doesn't block us headers = { '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' } response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) response.raise_for_status() # Parse the XML feed using BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, features="xml") items = soup.find_all("item") if not items: return f"No recent news found for {ticker}." summary = f"Recent News Headlines for {ticker}:\n\n" # Grab the top 5 most recent articles for i, item in enumerate(items[:10]): title = item.title.text if item.title else "No Title" # RSS provides nicely formatted publication dates pub_date = item.pubDate.text if item.pubDate else "Recent" summary += f"{i+1}. [{pub_date}] {title}\n" return summary except Exception as e: return f"Error fetching news for {ticker}: {str(e)}" # Quick test block if __name__ == "__main__": test_ticker = "NVDA" print("Testing News Pipeline...") print(get_recent_news.invoke({"ticker": test_ticker}))