Randnews

Randnews is a made-for-fun tool for generating random news headers via Markov chains. Current news sources include the following websites:

UA

• НВ
• Українська правда
• ukr.net
• fun.24tv.ua

Prerequisites

In order to be able to launch the tool you need to have Elixir (tested on 1.16.0) + recent OTP installed.

Usage

Main functions of the Randnews tool are accessible via the Mix task of the same name. It has two main modes of operation: getting real news headers and generating new random ones.

Generating a file with news headers

In order to generate such file from the news sources listed in the description above you need to execute the following command:

mix randnews dump [options]

It has a shortcut version, "d" instead of "dump". The possible options are:

• -f or --file, for a custom path for the file to be generated. By default it is "news.txt" in the current working directory
• -n or --count, used for indicating approximate desired count of news to be fetched for every news source. Defaults to 50
• -h or --help, for showing help message

Generating random news headers

The command is:

mix randnews generate [options]

It has a shortcut version, "g" instead of "generate". The possible options are:

• -f or --file, for a custom path for the file to take news headers from. By default it is "news.txt" in the current working directory
• -n or --count, for number of news headers to be generated. Default value: 20
• -h or --help, for showing help message

Basic usage example

git clone https://github.com/olefav/randnews
cd randnews
mix deps.get
mix randnews d # for getting news headers
mix randnews g -n 50 # generate 50 new headers using data from the
previous step

Testing

mix test