henryaj/Maker-Spark-Server

class GuardianNews

    def get_newsstories
        news_string = open("http://content.guardianapis.com/search?section=uk-news&order-by=newest&api-key=test").read
        news = JSON.parse(news_string) rescue "There was an error getting the latest news stories"
    
    end

    def headlines
        news_stories = get_newsstories["response"]['results'].map do |headline|
            publication_date = DateTime.parse(headline['webPublicationDate']).strftime('%_d %_B, %H:%M')
            Hash[:webtitle, headline['webTitle'] , :publication_date , publication_date]
        end
        news_stories[0..2]
    end

    def json
        headlines.map do |headline|
            Hash[:format, "TEXT", :text, "#{headline[:webtitle]} (#{headline[:publication_date]})"]
        end
    end
    
end