pncnmnp / text-only-news

A text-only news website/progressive-web-app for low internet bandwidth

Description

Text-only news is a website/progressive-web-app to provide clutter-free news in various languages. This is a non-commercial attempt to provide news in places with slow-internet connectivity especially in rural areas. With low request sizes and fast loading time, the site is perfect for low bandwidth connections.
Features of this site are:

• Low request sizes, fast loading time
• Search articles with relevant keyword
• Can be used as a Progressive Web App (PWA)
• News are segregated into various categories
• Multilingual, currently supporting - English, Hindi
• Clean UI

The site is currently hosted on PythonAnywhere: Text-Only News

How to run (Locally)

Enter the urls you want to scrape in ./data/urls.json with appropriate language and categories. The format for the same is: { 'language_1': {'category_1': ['link_1', 'link_2', ...], 'category_2': ['link_1', 'link_2', ...]}, 'language_2': {...} }

If you add any categories in ./data/urls.json, make sure to list them in ./data/categories_order.json

To fetch the news and store them locally in ./data/news.sqlite3, run: python get_news.py language where language is a string, whose value should be from language_1, language_2, ... (from ./data/urls.json)

By default, values are appended at the end of the database. To truncate the DB, run rm_old_news.py.

License

This project is under MIT License. The news content is a copyright property of the respective news platform. Currently news is rendered from RSS feeds provided by Reuters, NDTV and Dainik Bhaskar. The site logo is under CC 3.0 BY by Designmodo.