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A web server that fetches data from the News API and formats it for display in the terminal.

Home Page: http://getnews.tech

License: Apache License 2.0

JavaScript 99.80% Shell 0.20%

tech newsapi article cli command-line commandline-interface curl news

getnews.tech's Introduction

getnews.tech

omgimanerd:~$ curl getnews.tech/trump
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Articles                                                               │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Huawei, Saudi Arabia, India: Your Thursday Briefing                    │
│ Published on Feb 20th, 2019 at 2:41pm EST                              │
│ President Trump boarding Air Force One last week.                      │
│ http://getnews.tech/s/7TYAJvAH                                         │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Trump Organization shelves plans for two new US hotel chains           │
│ Published on Feb 14th, 2019 at 7:07pm EST                              │
│ The Trump Organization will not move forward with ambitious            │
│ expansion plans for two hotel chains across the US, citing a toxic     │
│ political climate for the Trump brand.                                 │
│ http://getnews.tech/s/DGVGiZTO                                         │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Trump Loves a Culture War                                              │
│ Published on Feb 6th, 2019 at 2:36pm EST                               │
│ The president lied about abortion in the State of the Union.           │
│ http://getnews.tech/s/UrIzR005                                         │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Trump Versus the Socialist Menace                                      │
│ Published on Feb 7th, 2019 at 7:05pm EST                               │
│ President Trump giving his State of the Union address on Tuesday.      │
│ http://getnews.tech/s/_1CQRCZd                                         │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Trump-Kim Meeting, Brexit, Pulwama: Your Wednesday Briefing            │
│ Published on Feb 26th, 2019 at 2:16pm EST                              │
│ President Trump arriving in Hanoi, Vietnam.                            │
│ http://getnews.tech/s/g1YFW5W5                                         │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│             Powered by the News API (https://newsapi.org).             │
│               Follow @omgimanerd on Twitter and GitHub.                │
│                 Open source contributions are welcome!                 │
│               https://github.com/omgimanerd/getnews.tech               │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

This is a web server that formats the news (primarily US based) from various sources on the web for display in the terminal. A link to each article is included if you want to read the full article.

Usage

You can fetch the latest news simply by typing

curl getnews.tech
curl us.getnews.tech/trump
curl fr.getnews.tech/world+cup
curl gr.getnews.tech/category=business

For additional options:

curl getnews.tech/:help

Contributing

Fork this repository and send me a pull request with any suggestions and changes. Use ESLint to format your JavaScript using the provided .eslintrc.js file. I highly recommend using the provided precommit hook to run the unit tests and ESLint.

ln -s ../../pre-commit.sh .git/hooks/pre-commit

You will need to acquire an API Key from the News API. Add them to your .bashrc or other environment variable configuration:

export NEWS_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY_HERE

Install the project dependencies:

npm install

Run the server:

node server.js

License

Apache 2

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getnews.tech's Issues

Allow for number and direction of articles to be configurable

As suggested by @chubin, allow for the number of articles in the output to be configurable.

This was originally done through query parameters:
curl getnews.tech/topic?n=10

Possible idea:
curl getnews.tech/topic<10

get news.tech seems down

It seems that the website is down.

curl getnews.tech/ doesn't return anything.

Language support

As suggested by @chubin, use a language specific subdomain to do language support.

curl es.getnews.tech/topic

Languages supported:

/help: blue text is not readable

I have checked the new /:help page, it is very cool, but I would suggest several improvements:

Blue text is unreadable on black background (at least on my terminal, and I have pretty default settings i.e. many others will have this problem too)
Valid countries are highlighted, and valid categories not; it would be better to make it consistent
Would it be possible to make time direction configurable (top -> down, blogstyle or down -> top, log style)?

And the last but not least, strange, maybe you've changed something in the search algorithm, but now it is impossible to find anything related to programming languages news.
I tried to search for rust, elm, python and the service delivered Trump raised Biden with Xi etc. But I think that it is just some configuration bug, and you will fix it soon.

Help page

As suggested by @chubin, use
curl getnews.tech/:help
to display a help page.

Thanks, This is still pretty cool.

Thanks, This is still pretty cool.
I use it frequently.

Consider migrating to scraping Google News RSS feed

The Google News RSS feed has similar functionality and scraping this would have no rate limit.

Pros:

No rate limit
Equally advanced querying functionality

Cons:

Undocumented API / query parameters
Article descriptions are sparse

Is getnews.tech down?

When I try curl getnews.tech/anything, I now get an error:

curl getnews.tech/ <html>
<head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>502 Bad Gateway</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)</center>
</body>
</html>

How to get plain text?

Is there a url I can hit to get plain text news? Without the shell formatting like

[39m

Migrate to newsapi v2

Seems the website www.getnews.tech is down

It seems the website is down as no request have been going through for the past 2 days.

Too many requests

Getting the following error when calling service:

You have made too many requests recently. Developer accounts are limited to  │
│  100 requests over a 24 hour period (50 requests available every 12 hours).  │
│           Please upgrade to a paid plan if you need more requests.           │
│

Write more comprehensive unit tests

[Request] Place article headline source in output.

The NEWS API provides this as "source: ---->name:"

Thank you for your effort.

curl getnews.tech not working anymore

It seems that this is not working anymore:

curl getnews.tech/anything returns the following:

<html>
<head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>502 Bad Gateway</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)</center>
</body>
</html>

too many chinese and arab sources

Can we select sources? Maybe language specific or region specific?

Thanks

Server down ?

{20-03-17 7:13}manjaro:~ martin% curl getnews.tech
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ An error occurred on our end. Please try again later. │
│ │
│ curl getnews.tech/:help │
│ │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Powered by the News API (https://newsapi.org). │
│ Follow @omgimanerd on Twitter and GitHub. │
│ Open source contributions are welcome! │
│ https://github.com/omgimanerd/getnews.tech │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Make API queries more robust in case of time-out and failure.

server/api.js will explode and the current Promise handling chain isn't very robust. Could use fixing.