newsie

How about a daily printed newspaper, govna?

Description

Newsie delivers a fresh hard-copy newspaper via your printer every morning based on the news sources you select. Each article includes a summary and a QR code you can scan with your phone shoud you want to know more.

Status

• Generates a page of news from a list of RSS feeds
• Can print the page directly to CUPS-configured printer
• Emails the page to a configured destination
• Blocks stories based on keywords

Usage

Once installed and configured, the command new-issue will email and print a new issue of the paper.

Requirements

You'll need to install a LaTex compiler, something along these lines:

sudo apt-get install texlive-pictures texlive-science texlive-latex-extra latexmk

Installation

pip install newsie

... or to install from source, clone this repository and then...

pip install .

Configuration

Copy config_template.ini to config.ini and modify the configuration as needed.

NOTE: Make sure the paths in the configuration file actually exist!"

TODO

• Make the feed list dynamic (part of the config)
• Add a tool to automate configuration
• Fix encoding/unicode issues (ex:, the ' in it's getting turned into weird characters)
• Blend stories so they don't appear grouped by source
• Only include stories from the last 24 hours (or some configured amount)
• Grab more of the article if the RSS summary is too short
• Figure out why iOS won't parse the QR code links
• Create a CLI
• Add forecast to weather
• Support other weather providers
• Make story titles smaller than header
• Re-work configuration (module-based is broken now that we're a real package)
• Fix path issues that have come-up as a result of packagification
• Create qr image directory if it's missing
• Better output (remove debugging code, etc.)
• Fix "first page is blank" problem
• Make number of articles configurable
• Test to make sure all RSS feeds in the config are being used