CLInews

News reader for hackers, geek, and command-line fanatics =]] written in Python

Features:

• Manage (show/add/delete) source list
• List news from sources (RSS)
• Go to articles URL
• Working completely in command line
• Can be used in IDEs (WebStorm, PyCharm, Eclipse,...)

Installation:

Clone this repository to your computer. Run this command:

chmod +x news

Optional: If you want to run news command directly in terminal window instead of ./news, just open your ~/.bash_profile file and add current directory in the new line, for example:

export PATH=$PATH:'<your-current-clinews-directory>'

And restart terminal

Usage:

Read news:

./news

Press UP/DOWN to switch articles.

Press SPACE to open current article in browser.

List all added sources:

./news -l

Add new (RSS) source:

./news -a <rss-url>

Remove exists (RSS) source:

./news -r <rss-url>

Display help:

./news -h

Libraries used:

• Rainbow Stream's colors.py
• Universal Feed Parser

Todo:

• Create setup script
• Themes support
• Unicode support
• Strip HTML encoded strings in articles content