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# Newspaper

**NewspaperTools** enable an Agent to read news articles using the Newspaper4k library.

## Prerequisites

The following example requires the `newspaper3k` library.

```shell theme={null}
pip install -U newspaper3k
```

## Example

The following agent will summarize the wikipedia article on language models.

```python cookbook/tools/newspaper_tools.py theme={null}
from phi.agent import Agent
from phi.tools.newspaper_tools import NewspaperTools

agent = Agent(tools=[NewspaperTools()])
agent.print_response("Please summarize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_model")
```

## Toolkit Params

| Parameter          | Type   | Default | Description                                                   |
| ------------------ | ------ | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `get_article_text` | `bool` | `True`  | Enables the functionality to retrieve the text of an article. |

## Toolkit Functions

| Function           | Description                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `get_article_text` | Retrieves the text of an article from a specified URL. Parameters include `url` for the URL of the article. Returns the text of the article or an error message if the retrieval fails. |

## Information

* View on [Github](https://github.com/agno-agi/phidata/blob/main/phi/tools/newspaper_tools.py)