not-the-news

Browser based single page scroll rss reader with keyword filtering.

Multiple rss feeds are aggregated into a single rss feed, rss items that flag up with filtered keywords are then removed. On the website, closing an item will permanently remain closed. Hidden items are kept in localstorage

dependencies

• Cron
• Python3
• PHP
• Nginx

Python3 modules:

• Feedparser
• Datetime
• json
• urlparse
• xml.etree.ElementTree
• hashlib

configuration

add to crontab:

*/30 * * * * su -c "python3 /home/<user>/not-the-news/run.py" <username>

edit and rename the config examples in www/config/

• feeds.txt
• filter_keywords.txt
• config.php

copy the nginx/sites-availble/news-nginx-example file to /etc/nginx/sites-available and edit the sections of the file.

running it

you can either wait for the cron to kick off the run.py or you can exec the run.py file manually