ILNewsDiff
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A Twitter bot that keeps track of changes made in Israeli news websites.
Currently tracking:
How does it work?
Once a minute the code queries news feeds and compares them to a previous state saved in a local SQLite DB.
If an interesting change is found, a tweet is published with the diff.
The first tweet of a diff is always the article itself as a link, and all the subsequent changes are chained by order.
What is interesting?
A change that
- Has happened and is not there because of a delay in the RSS feed. The code queries the article's page to look for the change.
- Is not comprised of only whitespace or punctuation.
- Has a difference of more than one letter (Though adding/removing a question mark '?' is interesting)
Installation
- The phantomjs binary needs to be installed, and the path updated in the run_diff.sh file.
pip install -r requirements.txt
Twitter keys are needed.
Credits
For contributing to this repo:
Based on @j-e-d's code for the Twitter bot @nyt_diff.
RSS feed fetching added for @xuv's Twitter bot @lesoir_diff
- Original script and idea: @j-e-d Juan E.D. http://unahormiga.com/
- RSS fetching: @xuv Julien Deswaef http://xuv.be
- Font: Merriweather
- Background pattern: Paper Fibers.