app.py

from flask import Flask, render_template, request
import feedparser

app = Flask(__name__)

RSS_FEED = {
  'bbc': "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
  'cnn': 'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss',
  'fox': 'http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/latest',
  'iol': 'http://www.iol.co.za/cmlink/1.640'

}

@app.route("/")
def get_news():
  query = request.args.get("publication")

  if not query or query.lower() not in RSS_FEED:
    publication = 'bbc'
  else :
    publication = query.lower()

  feed = feedparser.parse(RSS_FEED[publication])

  return render_template(
    "home.html",
    articles=feed['entries']
    )

if __name__ == "__main__":
  app.run()