import bpy
import requests
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ElTree
from math import pi as PI   

# A function to draw some text    
def addText( t, loc, rot=(PI/2, 0, 0) ):
    bpy.ops.object.text_add( enter_editmode=True, location = loc, rotation = rot )
    bpy.ops.font.select_all()
    bpy.ops.font.delete(type='SELECTION')
    bpy.ops.font.text_insert(text=t)
    bpy.ops.object.editmode_toggle()
    
# Fetch the latest articles from NYTimes.com
req = requests.get('http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml')

if( req.status_code == 200):
    # if the server responded correctly to our request
    #print(req.headers)
    rss = ElTree.fromstring(req.text)
    #print(rss)
    
    for i, title in enumerate(rss.iter('title')):
        #print(str(i) + ' ' + title.text)
        if ( i > 1 ):
            addText(title.text, (0, 0, i))