README.md

getnews.tech

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omgimanerd:~$ curl getnews.tech/trump
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Articles                                                               │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Huawei, Saudi Arabia, India: Your Thursday Briefing                    │
│ Published on Feb 20th, 2019 at 2:41pm EST                              │
│ President Trump boarding Air Force One last week.                      │
│ http://getnews.tech/s/7TYAJvAH                                         │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Trump Organization shelves plans for two new US hotel chains           │
│ Published on Feb 14th, 2019 at 7:07pm EST                              │
│ The Trump Organization will not move forward with ambitious            │
│ expansion plans for two hotel chains across the US, citing a toxic     │
│ political climate for the Trump brand.                                 │
│ http://getnews.tech/s/DGVGiZTO                                         │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Trump Loves a Culture War                                              │
│ Published on Feb 6th, 2019 at 2:36pm EST                               │
│ The president lied about abortion in the State of the Union.           │
│ http://getnews.tech/s/UrIzR005                                         │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Trump Versus the Socialist Menace                                      │
│ Published on Feb 7th, 2019 at 7:05pm EST                               │
│ President Trump giving his State of the Union address on Tuesday.      │
│ http://getnews.tech/s/_1CQRCZd                                         │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Trump-Kim Meeting, Brexit, Pulwama: Your Wednesday Briefing            │
│ Published on Feb 26th, 2019 at 2:16pm EST                              │
│ President Trump arriving in Hanoi, Vietnam.                            │
│ http://getnews.tech/s/g1YFW5W5                                         │
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│               Follow @omgimanerd on Twitter and GitHub.                │
│                 Open source contributions are welcome!                 │
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This is a web server that formats the news (primarily US based) from various sources on the web for display in the terminal. A link to each article is included if you want to read the full article.

Usage

You can fetch the latest news simply by typing

curl getnews.tech
curl us.getnews.tech/trump
curl fr.getnews.tech/world+cup
curl gr.getnews.tech/category=business

For additional options:

curl getnews.tech/:help

Contributing

Fork this repository and send me a pull request with any suggestions and changes. Use ESLint to format your JavaScript using the provided .eslintrc.js file. I highly recommend using the provided precommit hook to run the unit tests and ESLint.

ln -s ../../pre-commit.sh .git/hooks/pre-commit

You will need to acquire an API Key from the News API. Add them to your .bashrc or other environment variable configuration:

export NEWS_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY_HERE

Install the project dependencies:

npm install

Run the server:

node server.js

License

Apache 2