https://github.com/rsdoiel/antenna

Finding signal through the noise of the net
https://github.com/rsdoiel/antenna

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Finding signal through the noise of the net

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rsdoiel/antenna
• Owner: rsdoiel
• Created: 2023-10-11T13:53:17.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-18T15:10:14.000Z (21 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-18T16:23:55.642Z (20 days ago)
• Language: HTML
• Size: 8.85 GB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.html
  • Citation: CITATION.cff
  • Codemeta: codemeta.json

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Anteena

Antenna demonstrates aggregating of news content via web feeds for

personal use. In effect a LinkBlog. It is where I

read the web content I follow. Antenna demonstrates that aggregating

news can be done by an individual with a little effort and a few tools.

We don’t need to rely on large internet companies to be informed or to

keep up to date.

Tools to build this

aggregation



Pandoc 3

SQLite 3

GNU Make

skimmer >= 0.0.16

Git + GitHub (to host your personal aggregation site)



The moving parts

skimmer is used to

collect data from RSS, Atom and JSON feeds that are listed in a URLs

file. The data collected gets stored in an SQLite 3 database.

The SQLite 3 database can be managed

with simple SQL statements execute from the command line, a script

(e.g. Bash or Python) or in this case a Makefile.

The scripts responsibility is to automatically identify the feed items

to be “saved” for generating this static website.

The skimmer programs comes with a companion program called

skim2md which will read all the saved items in an

SQLite3 database and render them in Markdown. This file is easy to then

process with Pandoc into a full web page.

Pandoc is responsible for rendering

Markdown to HTML5 via a template called front_page.tmpl

The make command is used to run the Makefile and

build the pages. You can then use your favorite web server to share them

or just open them directly in your favorite web browser.

make clean

make

Each aggregation page is populated by it’s own URLs list which builds

the skimmer database used to generate the page.





SoCal North URLs



Weather URLs



Antenna is a personal aggregation of items found around the web.

Curated with skimmer and sqlite then rendered with Pandoc.