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A web server that fetches data from the New York Times and formats it for display in the terminal.
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This is a web server that formats the latest news from the front page of theNew York Times into a format that can be displayed in most terminals. A linkto each article is included if the user wants to read the full article.
This project will no longer be updated or maintained as of August 2017.Please consider using its sister projectgetnews.tech, which usestheNews API instead.
$ curl nycurl.sytes.net?i=5┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐│ ││ To find a list of sections to query, use: ││ curl nycurl.sytes.net/help ││ │├───┬──────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤│ # │ Section │ Details │├───┼──────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤│ 0 │ Arts │ Canada Debates Whether Gift of Leibovitz Photos ││ │ │ Is Also a Tax Dodge ││ │ │ Four years after the donation of 2,070 photos ││ │ │ created by Annie Leibovitz to a Nova Scotia ││ │ │ museum, a government panel is balking at its $20 ││ │ │ million valuation. ││ │ │ https://nyti.ms/2tH1g2N │├───┼──────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤│ 1 │ Books │ What Happens When Liberty Fails to Deliver ││ │ │ In “The Retreat of Western Liberalism,” Edward ││ │ │ Luce argues that the tradition of liberty is ││ │ │ under mortal threat. ││ │ │ https://nyti.ms/2tFDJ2g │├───┼──────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤│ 2 │ Briefing │ Senate, John McCain, Jeff Sessions: Your Tuesday ││ │ │ Evening Briefing ││ │ │ Here’s what you need to know at the end of the ││ │ │ day. ││ │ │ https://nyti.ms/2tHzEdW │├───┼──────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤│ 3 │ Briefing │ Donald Trump, Republican Party, Russia: Your ││ │ │ Wednesday Briefing ││ │ │ Here’s what you need to know to start your day. ││ │ │ https://nyti.ms/2tXFUtp │├───┼──────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤│ 4 │ Business Day │ To Punish Putin, Economic Sanctions Are Unlikely ││ │ │ to Do the Trick ││ │ │ Using economic penalties to achieve diplomatic ││ │ │ goals has a poor track record when the target is ││ │ │ powerful and autocratic, and workarounds exist. ││ │ │ https://nyti.ms/2tGwbwj │├───┴──────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Follow @omgimanerd on Twitter and GitHub. ││ Open source contributions are welcome! ││ https://github.com/omgimanerd/nycurl │└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘You can fetch the latest news simply by typing
curl nycurl.sytes.net
This application also accepts queries to the various sections of the NY Times.
curl nycurl.sytes.net/technologycurl nycurl.sytes.net/politics
Get a list of acceptable sections to query using:
curl nycurl.sytes.net/help
By default, nycurl will format the table to be a max of 72 characters wide.If you would like to specify a custom width for your terminal, you can do sousing:
curl nycurl.sytes.net?w=92curl nycurl.sytes.net/technology?w=100
You can also limit the number of articles to display.
curl nycurl.sytes.net?n=10curl nycurl.sytes.net?n=12\&w=95
Note that when combining the parameters on the command line as query parameters,you must use\& to escape the ampersand character.
Fork this repository and send me a pull request with any suggestions andchanges. UseStandardJS to format your code.
You will need to acquire a Top Stories API Key from theNew York Timesand a URL Shortener API Key fromGoogle Developers. Add them to your .bashrcor other environment variable configuration:
export NYTIMES_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY_HEREexport URL_SHORTENER_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY_HERE
Install the project dependencies:
npm install # or yarn installwebpackRun the server:
node server.js