Added start date argument to newsapi (#749)

* Added start date argument to newsapi

* Fixed typo

* Fix getting tail of the news

* Show newsapi error

* Added show_newest arg to news

* Added sort arg to news

* Updated news argument

2 files changed, 43 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/gamestonk_terminal/common/newsapi_view.py b/gamestonk_terminal/common/newsapi_view.py
index f1c51344a52..64f04b09ee8 100644
--- a/gamestonk_terminal/common/newsapi_view.py
+++ b/gamestonk_terminal/common/newsapi_view.py
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 """ News View """
 __docformat__ = "numpy"
 
-from datetime import datetime, timedelta
-
 import requests
 
 from gamestonk_terminal import config_terminal as cfg
 
 
-def news(term: str, num: int):
+def news(
+    term: str,
+    num: int,
+    s_from: str,
+    show_newest: bool,
+):
     """Display news for a given title. [Source: NewsAPI]
 
     Parameters
@@ -17,10 +20,12 @@ def news(term: str, num: int):
         term to search on the news articles
     num : int
         number of articles to display
+    s_from: str
+        date to start searching articles from formatted YYYY-MM-DD
+    show_newest: bool
+        flag to show newest articles first
     """
     # TODO: Add argument to specify news source being used
-    # TODO: Add argument to specify date start to search for articles
-    s_from = (datetime.now() - timedelta(days=7)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
 
     response = requests.get(
         f"https://newsapi.org/v2/everything?q={term}&from={s_from}"
@@ -28,7 +33,10 @@ def news(term: str, num: int):
     )
 
     # Check that the API response was successful
-    if response.status_code != 200:
+    if response.status_code == 426:
+        print(f"Error in request: {response.json()['message']}", "\n")
+
+    elif response.status_code != 200:
         print(f"Error in request {response.status_code}. Check News API token", "\n")
 
     else:
@@ -36,7 +44,13 @@ def news(term: str, num: int):
             f"{response.json()['totalResults']} news articles for {term} were found since {s_from}\n"
         )
 
-        for idx, article in enumerate(response.json()["articles"]):
+        if show_newest:
+            articles = response.json()["articles"]
+
+        else:
+            articles = response.json()["articles"][::-1]
+
+        for idx, article in enumerate(articles):
             print(
                 article["publishedAt"].replace("T", " ").replace("Z", ""),
                 " ",
diff --git a/gamestonk_terminal/stocks/stocks_controller.py b/gamestonk_terminal/stocks/stocks_controller.py
index a9c2eb7c45d..4b003a42ebb 100644
--- a/gamestonk_terminal/stocks/stocks_controller.py
+++ b/gamestonk_terminal/stocks/stocks_controller.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import argparse
 import os
 from typing import List
 
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 import pandas as pd
 from colorama import Style
 from prompt_toolkit.completion import NestedCompleter
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ from gamestonk_terminal.stocks.research import res_controller
 from gamestonk_terminal.stocks.screener import screener_controller
 from gamestonk_terminal.stocks.stocks_helper import candle, load, quote
 from gamestonk_terminal.stocks.technical_analysis import ta_controller
+from gamestonk_terminal.helper_funcs import valid_date
 
 # pylint: disable=R1710
 
@@ -232,6 +234,24 @@ Market {('CLOSED', 'OPEN')[b_is_stock_market_open()]}
             default=5,
             help="Number of latest news being printed.",
         )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            "-d",
+            "--date",
+            action="store",
+            dest="n_start_date",
+            type=valid_date,
+            default=datetime.now() - timedelta(days=7),
+            help="The starting date (format YYYY-MM-DD) to search articles from",
+        )
+        parser.add_argument(
+            "-o",
+            "--oldest",
+            action="store_false",
+            dest="n_oldest",
+            default=True,
+            help="Show oldest articles first",
+        )
+
         try:
             ns_parser = parse_known_args_and_warn(parser, other_args)
             if not ns_parser:
@@ -240,6 +260,8 @@ Market {('CLOSED', 'OPEN')[b_is_stock_market_open()]}
             newsapi_view.news(
                 term=self.ticker,
                 num=ns_parser.n_num,
+                s_from=ns_parser.n_start_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"),
+                show_newest=ns_parser.n_oldest,
             )
 
         except Exception as e: