radinplaid / pynewsreader

A news aggregator and viewer written in python

pynewsreader

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/radinplaid/pynewsreader.git

Command Line Usage

# Show help
pnr --help

# Add a feed
pnr add_feed https://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/world.xml

# Update feed(s)
pnr update

# Show entries
pnr show --limit 10

# Search entries
pnr search canada

Web Application

The main interface for viewing the RSS feeds is the Flask web application, which can be lauched from the command line:

pnr-app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5000
# Or
python3 -m pynewsreader.app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5000

Python Usage

Import and initialize pnr object

from pynewsreader.core import Feed, PyNewsReader

pnr = PyNewsReader()

Add a feed, and use a custom name for it

myfeed = Feed(
    url="https://www.thestar.com/content/thestar/feed.RSSManagerServlet.articles.topstories.rss",
    name="Toronto Star | Top Stories",
)

pnr.add_feed(myfeed)

myfeed = Feed(
    url="https://www.thebeaverton.com/feed/?q=1684448990",
    name="The Beaverton",
)

pnr.add_feed(myfeed)

myfeed = Feed(
    url="https://hf.co/blog/feed.xml",
    name="Huggingface Blog",
)

pnr.add_feed(myfeed)

myfeed = Feed(
    url="https://engineering.fb.com/feed",
    name="Facebook AI Blog",
)

pnr.add_feed(myfeed)

myfeed = Feed(
    url="https://ai.googleblog.com/atom.xml",
    name="Google AI Blog",
)

pnr.add_feed(myfeed)

pnr.add_feed("https://proceedings.mlr.press/feed.xml")

pnr.add_feed("https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/feed.xml")

pnr.add_feed("https://openai.com/blog/rss.xml")

pnr.add_feed("https://blogs.rstudio.com/ai/index.xml")

pnr.add_feed("https://www.jstatsoft.org/gateway/plugin/WebFeedGatewayPlugin/rss2")

Update feeds

pnr.update()

List entries

pnr.show(limit=1)

Search entries

pnr.search("inflation", limit=1)