haxine / newscombinator

This repository is the open-source newscombinator.

Newscombinator

A Webapp is just a frontend around a database

http://reader.newscombinator.com - The Reader by Newscombinator

Introduction

Reading a lot of news-sites is tiring. Being top-informed on Reddit, Ycombinator, Makernews, Datatau, Coinspotting and many more has become a hassle. The Newscombinator combines all those sites and grabs it from a publicly available API.

The Newscombinator is written in JavaScript, wrapping AngularJS and Bootstrap around a RESTful API. It is a sample App to demonstrate the possibilities of the underlying Solr-Index.

Why? I am working on a side project, the News Aggregator, which automagically classifies IT news to categories which were setup by yourself. I think opening the API will follow soon, so I think this is a great first kickoff app for demos.

Installation

git clone [email protected]:tomw1808/newscombinator.git 

Then install it

npm install

bower install

And start hacking your own version. As simple as that.

The solution here is responsive, pretty much standard angular and bootstrap. Feel free to make something really awesome with that and put your name underneath.

Api Limits

We (well, technically I) try our (my) best to keep the service running. Currently there are soft-limits in place: if you take the server(s) down - accidentally or not - your IP will be banned, no exceptions. So keep it sane, please.

License

Feel free to redistribute, modify and use the code for and in any projects. I will not take any responsibility or whatsoever for code/server and or information provided, and keep the right to change/modify/stop the underlying API at any time. You can find more in the provided LICENSE.txt. You can take it for granted, I will not pursue any copyright claims to the software, either modified or not. I personally think its good manner to get in touch with me before using the software for third party apps or anything else.

Sources

Coinspotting - for Cryptocurrencies, DataTau, Devmaster, Dzone, Echo JS - News for Javascript, Firespotting - for Ideas, Inbound - For Marketing, Lamernews, Lesswrong Discussion, Lobsters, Makernews, Med Technology News - medical technology, Pullup.io - NodeJS related, r/Algorithms, r/Analytics, r/Analyzit, r/Angular JS, r/Bitcoin, r/BSD, r/Business Intelligence, r/Cableporn, r/Coding, r/Coq, r/Crypto, r/Data is Beautiful, r/Data Science, r/Database, r/DataHoarder, r/Datasets, r/Dependent Types, r/Design, r/Devkit, r/Django, r/DuckDuckGo, r/embeddedlinux, r/Entrepeneur, r/FreeBSD, r/Frontend, r/FSharp, r/Gamification, r/HaikuOS, r/Haskell, r/Homelab, r/Ingress, r/IPython, r/Kernel, r/Linux, r/Linux Devices, r/Linuxadmin, r/LinuxDev, r/Lisp, r/Lowlevel, r/Machine Learning, r/Math, r/NetBSD, r/NetSec, r/NodeJS, r/Ocaml, r/OpenBSD, r/OpenData, r/Opensource Hardware, r/OpenSUSE, r/OpenWRT, r/Optimization, r/OS Dev, r/Philosophy of Science, r/Philospohy of Math, r/Programming, r/Programming Languages, r/Python, r/REMath, r/Reverse Engineering, r/RTLSDR, r/Scala, r/Semantic Web, r/Smallbusiness, r/Startups, r/Statistics, r/Sysadmin, r/Sysor, r/Systems, r/Types, r/Unix, r/Usefulscripts, r/Visualization, r/VRD, r/Webdesign, r/Webdev, Slashdot.org, Soylent News, USV - Union Square Ventures, WoodSpotting , Y Combinator - Hacker News.

Contact

Get in touch with me on thomas at newscombinator dot com. Or like the HNCombinator on twitter, that would be very helpful. If you want to get the latest infos, when what happens, why not subscribe? We don't like spam.