I am still getting this issue in GoogleNewsSource

[biranchi2018]

googlenews <- WebCorpus(GoogleNewsSource("Microsoft"))
Unknown IO errorfailed to load external entity "http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Microsoft&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss"
Error: 1: Unknown IO error2: failed to load external entity "http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Microsoft&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss"

[mannau]

Sorry - I can't reproduce the error. Which version are you using? Pls include the output of sessionInfo().
Best,
m

[dcadam]

Hi Mannau,

I also have this error message running the same line of code above.

sessionInfo()

R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.3.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.3

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /usr/local/Cellar/openblas/0.2.20_1/lib/libopenblasp-r0.2.20.dylib

locale:
[1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] tm.plugin.webmining_1.3 tm_0.7-3 NLP_0.1-11

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.3 parallel_3.4.3 tools_3.4.3 RCurl_1.95-4.10 yaml_2.1.16 Rcpp_0.12.15 slam_0.1-42
[8] RJSONIO_1.3-0 xml2_1.2.0 rJava_0.9-9 boilerpipeR_1.3 bitops_1.0-6 XML_3.98-1.9

[brycesisu]

I have the same error

> gsh <- WebCorpus(GoogleNewsSource("Trump"))
Unknown IO errorfailed to load external entity "http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Trump&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss"
Error: 1: Unknown IO error2: failed to load external entity "http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Trump&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss"

sessionInfo()
`R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3.6.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.6.0

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
[6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] tm.plugin.webmining_1.3 tm_0.7-3 NLP_0.1-11

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.4 parallel_3.4.4 tools_3.4.4 RCurl_1.95-4.10 yaml_2.1.16 Rcpp_0.12.16 slam_0.1-42 RJSONIO_1.3-0 xml2_1.1.1 rJava_0.9-9
[11] boilerpipeR_1.3 bitops_1.0-6 XML_3.98-1.9 `

[roy-j]

hi, @mannau

First of all, thank you for your time and this package!
This error may be somehow related to SIP/301 from google in response to http request.
I changed to https in 'R/source.R', rebuilt package and was able to get google response.

diff --git a/R/source.R b/R/source.R
index a4fd056..8daf9f3 100644
--- a/R/source.R
+++ b/R/source.R
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ GoogleNewsSource <- function(query, params =
                                                ie='utf-8', 
                                                num = 30, 
                                                output='rss'), ...){
-       feed <- "http://news.google.com/news"
+       feed <- "https://news.google.com/news"
        fq <- feedquery(feed, params)
        parser <- function(cr){
                tree <- parse(cr, type = "XML", asText = TRUE)

I'm not that specialist in R, I'm sure there is better approach.

Thanks!