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https://github.com/pschwede/AnchorBot
The more often you click a word in the headlines, the more interesting are your news.
https://github.com/pschwede/AnchorBot
browser flask journalism justext news readability work-in-progress
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The more often you click a word in the headlines, the more interesting are your news.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pschwede/AnchorBot
- Owner: pschwede
- Created: 2011-02-14T18:06:07.000Z (over 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-03-27T15:53:36.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-01T06:21:29.606Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: browser, flask, journalism, justext, news, readability, work-in-progress
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 1.11 MB
- Stars: 13
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 9
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# AnchorBot
A (prototype of a) simple learning news feed aggregator that works surprisingly well.
**Note:** I plan to redo this piece of software very soon.
## Why?
While journalism is regarded as the fourth column the western society is
standing on, the introduction of web 2.0 caused a disruption in the
journalistic ecosystem. News are all over the place. Blogs, newspapers and
broadcasting services mingle together in one web of relevant and irrelevant
articles with a wide range of quality.
Reading news can be very frustrating today:
* Centristic shareholders influence framing and relevance decisions
* Social networks resonate echo chambers
* Style variety, ads and click-bait poison your attention
Anchorbot delivers. It additively merges several newsrooms into an automated
personal one. It presents the news in a way that is easy to the senses and
helps you to concentrate on the important things, not the loudest. You decide
upon the relevance of headlines.
## Features
* Subscribe to RSS and ATOM feeds
* Scrape full text and embedded media from articles (similar to [Instapaper](https://instapaper.com) and [Readability](https://readability.com))
* Highlight selected keyword, the first and last sentence in [paragraphs](https://de.slideshare.net/amandacpoiesis/anatomy-of-a-paragraph)
* Bot and interface run on local machine. No trust on cloud services required.
## Missing features
* User friendly UI for managing feeds and keywords and stopping the program
* Display article author
* Android app
* reactive web interface
## Setup
### Requirements
* an installed Python 2
* a running [Redis](https://redis.io) service
* probably Linux (nothing else tested)
### Install
Run the following as root:
```bash
pip2 install justext Pillow redis_collections flask flask-markdown
git clone https://github.com/pschwede/AnchorBot.git
cd AnchorBot
```
This command assumes that `pip2` is pip for Python 2.
From here continue with [Usage](#usage).
## Usage
### 1. Run the bot
```bash
./bot.py
```
### 2. Add subscriptions
Add urls to `~/.config/anchorbot/config`.
### 3. Start reading
```bash
./start.sh & firefox 0.0.0.0:8000
```
### 4. Stop
Currently not implemented! Try to kill all the anchorbot jobs:
```bash
pkill -f bot.py
pkill -f web.py
pkill -f start.sh
```