From 5bedff3b36f501f86d7d7632d144a113275d2671 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hinko Kocevar <hinkocevar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 20:57:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] introduce start date to fetch the (latest) news from

---
 .../discovery/seeking_alpha_model.py             | 16 ++++++++++------
 .../discovery/seeking_alpha_view.py              | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gamestonk_terminal/discovery/seeking_alpha_model.py b/gamestonk_terminal/discovery/seeking_alpha_model.py
index b573c506d3f..6041eb63f67 100755
--- a/gamestonk_terminal/discovery/seeking_alpha_model.py
+++ b/gamestonk_terminal/discovery/seeking_alpha_model.py
@@ -91,12 +91,14 @@ def get_articles_html(url_articles: str) -> str:
     return articles_html
 
 
-def get_article_list(num: int) -> List[dict]:
+def get_article_list(start_date: datetime, num: int) -> List[dict]:
     """Returns a list of latest articles
 
     Parameters
     ----------
-    pages : int
+    start_date : datetime
+        Starting date
+    num : int
         Number of articles
 
     Returns
@@ -122,13 +124,15 @@ def get_article_list(num: int) -> List[dict]:
             if not article_url.startswith("/news/"):
                 continue
             article_id = article_url.split("/")[2].split("-")[0]
-
+            article_date = datetime.strptime(
+                item_row["data-last-date"], "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z"
+            )
+            if start_date.date() < article_date.date():
+                continue
             articles.append(
                 {
                     "title": item.text,
-                    "publishedAt": datetime.strptime(
-                        item_row["data-last-date"], "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z"
-                    ).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
+                    "publishedAt": article_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
                     "url": "https://seekingalpha.com" + article_url,
                     "id": article_id,
                 }
diff --git a/gamestonk_terminal/discovery/seeking_alpha_view.py b/gamestonk_terminal/discovery/seeking_alpha_view.py
index a11c548be72..7aedb3b8bd2 100644
--- a/gamestonk_terminal/discovery/seeking_alpha_view.py
+++ b/gamestonk_terminal/discovery/seeking_alpha_view.py
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ __docformat__ = "numpy"
 import argparse
 from typing import List
 import pandas as pd
+from datetime import datetime
 from gamestonk_terminal.helper_funcs import (
     check_positive,
     parse_known_args_and_warn,
+    valid_date,
 )
 
 from gamestonk_terminal.discovery import seeking_alpha_model
@@ -98,6 +100,15 @@ def latest_news_view(other_args: List[str]):
         default=10,
         help="number of latest articles being printed",
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-d",
+        "--date",
+        action="store",
+        dest="n_date",
+        type=valid_date,
+        default=datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d"),
+        help="starting date of latest articles being printed",
+    )
 
     if other_args:
         if "-" not in other_args[0]:
@@ -109,7 +120,9 @@ def latest_news_view(other_args: List[str]):
 
     # User wants to see all latest news
     if ns_parser.n_id == -1:
-        articles = seeking_alpha_model.get_article_list(ns_parser.n_num)
+        articles = seeking_alpha_model.get_article_list(
+            ns_parser.n_date, ns_parser.n_num
+        )
         for idx, article in enumerate(articles):
             print(
                 article["publishedAt"].replace("T", " ").replace("Z", ""),