news.org

The News

Time

date

Calendar

cal -h

Weather

import requests
r = requests.get("http://api.wunderground.com/api/<<wunderground-apikey>>/conditions/q/TX/Austin.json")
c = r.json()['current_observation']
location = c['display_location']
print("\n".join(["{}: {}".format(location['full'], c['weather']),
     "{}".format(c['local_time_rfc822']),
                 "{} / Feels like {}".format(c['temperature_string'], c['feelslike_string'])]))

Top Stories

NPR

import requests
import textwrap
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def story(link):
    r = requests.get("http://thin.npr.org{}".format(link)).text
    story = BeautifulSoup(r, 'html.parser')

    ps = []
    author = False

    wrapper = textwrap.TextWrapper(initial_indent='    ',
                                   subsequent_indent='    ', width=80)
    for p in story.find_all('p'):
        # skip the header
        if not author:
            if p.get_text()[0:2] != "By":
                continue
            author = True

        ps.append(wrapper.fill(p.get_text()))

    return u"\n\n".join(ps)


headlines = requests.get("http://thin.npr.org").text
soup = BeautifulSoup(headlines, 'html.parser')

results = []
for link in soup.find_all('a'):
    href = link.get('href')
    if "s.php" in href:
        result = u"*** {}\n\n{}\n".format(link.get_text(),
                                        story(href))

        results.append(result.encode('utf8'))

return "\n".join(results)

AP

import feedparser
f = feedparser.parse("http://hosted2.ap.org/atom/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305")
output = [u"*** Associated Press: {}".format(f.feed.title)]
for story in f.entries:
    output.append("    - [[{}][{}]]".format(story.link, story.title))
return u'\n'.join(output)

Internet

Hacker News

import requests
import string
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

r = requests.get("http://news.ycombinator.com")
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text.encode('utf-8'), 'html.parser')

things = []
for l in soup.find_all('a', attrs={'class': 'storylink'}):
    text = l.get_text()
    href = l['href'].encode('utf-8')
    text = text.encode('utf-8')
    text = string.replace(text, '[', '(')
    text = string.replace(text, ']', ')')
    things.append("[[{}][{}]]".format(href, text))

return "\n".encode('utf-8').join(things)