news_api_request_function.py

def news_api_request(url: str, **kwargs) -> list:
    """
    Sends GET request to News API endpoint
    
    Inputs
    ----------
    url: full URL for endpoint
    kwargs: please refer to 
            News API documentations: 
            https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/
            (apiKey argument is required)
            
    Return
    ----------
    list containing data for each article in response
    """
    params = kwargs
    res = requests.get(url, params=params)
    articles = res.json().get('articles')
    return articles