https://github.com/marado/hattai-fortune

Hattai's Fortune: a script that gives news
https://github.com/marado/hattai-fortune

feed news python script

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Hattai's Fortune: a script that gives news

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/marado/hattai-fortune
• Owner: marado
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2013-09-24T13:51:51.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-11-11T18:01:49.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-11T19:18:27.154Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: feed, news, python, script
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 534 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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hattai-fortune

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Hattai's Fortune: a script to be used by a bot, that gives news.

This script depends on feedparser, which should be installed on your system.

This script depends on python 3.2 or above.

## Script's behaviour

When run the script will:

1. Read the given (hardcoded) RSS feed:

   (at this moment, Google News' feed for in-Portuguese Portugal News)

2. Exclude the articles which contain any word from a given list of "bad words"

   (the match is case **insensitive**)

3. Exclude articles which have an empty title

4. Add new articles to the article list

5. Trim the article list up to a given maximum size

6. Pick the "best" article from the article list and:

    1. Store the title in a file called _title_

    2. Store the URL in a file called _link_

    2. Store the description in a file called _desc_

    3. Print out the title to STDOUT

7. Save the current article list for the next run

The way the "best article" is chosen is roughly like this:

- Look for the articles which have been used the least (ideally never)

- Pick the most recent one

We assume the feed delivers the articles ordered by date, so no check is done

on the script.