pddgnimi

"Put DuckDuckGo News In My Inbox"

This thing should scrape news articles from DuckDuckGo for a search query in Australia and send the results to you in an e-mail. It's intended to be invoked as a cronjob so as to get hits on a news topic at intervals of your choosing.

For example, here's a "past day" e-mail alert for "celebrity news":

Installation

Clone this repo, and jump into it:

git clone https://github.com/nooblag/pddgnimi.git
cd pddgnimi

Start pddgnimi to check that your system has the required software ready, and to save the details for the SMTP server that will be used later to send out all your e-mail alerts:

python3 pddgnimi.py

pddgnimi will save a successful configuration into .settings.conf so that the SMTP login is available/persistent between reboots. The configuration is locked (chmod 400) during set-up so that its contents are only be readable from within your user account (or by root).

Note: The mailserver password is not encrypted in the configuration file (it's obfuscated, but that's small comfort) so be aware not to use a sensitive account!!!

Usage

pddgnimi is intended to be invoked from the command line, as follows:

python3 pddgnimi.py "foo bar" emailaddress@somewhere.com

Where foo bar is your search query, and emailaddress@somewhere.com is the address to send the alert to.

Changing Scope

Narrowing results from a the past day or past week or past month or from any time can be specified as the second argument. For example, for alerts of news from the past week:

python3 pddgnimi.py "foo bar" week emailaddress@somewhere.com

Acceptable arguments for scope are: day week month any

If no argument is specified, the default is to scrape news articles from the past day