Twent (Time, WEather, and News in Terminal)

About

Twent (Time, WEather, and News in Terminal) is a Python script that allows you to display time, weather, and rss feeds in a text console.

Using world news feed from The Wall Street Journal.

Twent uses feedparser to parse rss feeds and pyfiglet to display time.

You need to have them installed to run twent.

git clone git@github.com:mikkkee/twent.git
cd twent
python twent.py 0

usage: twent.py [-h] Flag [Flags ...]

Flags can be numbers or names of feeds you specified in config.ini.

Numbers and names cannot be used together.

If numbers are used, the numbers corresponding to the order of rss feeds in config.ini, starting from 1.

Use 0 as Flag to display all feeds together.

Press Ctrl-C to stop twent.

In config.ini, you can customize the following settings:

###[rss] section

You can add rss feeds here, using name = value format.
name can be used as a Flag to choose the corresponding feed when running.
value is url of the rss feed.
Default values are Hacker News (50 points and above) and The Wall Street Journal - World News

###[weather] section

city stands for the location code used in yahoo weather api.
You can find location code for you city by searching you city in yahoo weather. For example, the location code for New York is 2459115, the corresponding url for New York is https://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/new-york/new-york-2459115/
unit can be F or C, case insensitive, stands for Fahrenheit or Celsius, respictively.

###[duration] section