newscast-cli

newcast-cli is a work-in-progress project and will be upgraded every day

This is the one place I read all my news everyday now. Visiting a ton of websites is tedious. Reading on RSS feeds still keeps me on the browser and I end up visiting unwanted sites anyway. Command line is the answer to all my problems. So this CLI will help me read all my news, on the terminal, on a distraction free screen and let me focus on what news is important for me.

Options

News Topic	Modifier	Value	Description
Editorials	eds	hindu, hindulead et, ie, iecolumns, hbl, guardian, livemint	Hindu, HinduLead Editorial, Economic Times, IndianExpress, IndianExpress Columns, HinduBusinessLine, Guardian, LiveMint
Sports	sports	espnf1, autof1, epl	ESPNF1, AutoSport F1, English Premier League
Magazines	magz	economist, projsyn, hbr,atlantic, frontline, longreads, outlook, hinduexpl	The Economist, Project Syndicate, HarvardBusinessReview, TheAtlantic, Frontline, LongReads, Outlook, TheHinduExplains
Science	science	sciam, popsci	ScientificAmerican, PopularScience
Tech News	tech	techcrunch, tnw , readwrite, bi	TechCrunch, TheNextWeb, ReadWrite, BusinessInsider

Usage

Some examples of how to run the tool:

• Read editorials - node index eds hindu
• Read sports - node index sports autof1
• Read magazines - node index magz economist
• Read science news - node index science sciam
• Read Tech news - node index tech techcrunch

How to add a news source

• Add to index.js if you want new mode (eds, sports, etc.) and add parameter(topic, source, sport etc.)
• Add website URL to consts.js
• Add entry in post.js to call to fetch posts
• Add file/function in newssrc folder (in relevant file) to scrape posts
• Add to reader.js to scrape the posts content

Thanks

Inspiration from medium-cli