MoNews

I abandoned this project around Jan 2015. I moved to a more manual approach. As it turns out this is more fun and suits my habits better.

Idea

This server script scrapes news sources every night at the same time to get the top N articles. RSS feeds like tagesschau offer sorted rss (by importance). Also hackernews (best) is sorted, reddit is sorted and medium monthly things are rated by importance. I take snapshots of these sources and put these top N articles as individual RSS feeds on S3. This can then be used to import in your favorite RSS reader and have a curated news feed.

Installation

Needs Ruby >= 2.0.0p353.
Run bundle install
Copy config.yaml.example to config.yaml and adjust it.

Run locally

Simply run monews.rb and the result will show up in rss. Or, use s3_wrapper.sh to download from S3, run monews and then upload the results back up to S3.

Docker

You can build the container via docker build -t monews:latest .. When running the container you need to give it a config folder with a config.yaml in it. You may copy config.yaml.example to config.yaml and use this folder. Now you can go ahead and run something like:

docker run --rm -t -v LOCAL_PATH_TO_CONFIG_FOLDER:/opt/monews/config -e "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=..." -e "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=..." -e "EC2_URL=https://END-POINT" monews:latest

Note that you can find the service endpoints via the Amazon documentation.

Things left todo

Improve README (see notes in dayone and add images)...
add setting to spec how often to refresh (e.g. only every 10 hours)
check that the setting how often to pull in new data is obeyed.

Licence

MIT.

motine / monews