README

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NAME
        news - an RSS feed aggregator

DESCRIPTION

        Science moves fast, and if you don't have fast tools you won't be fast
        enough!

INSTALLATION

        Put RSS urls in rss_urls, there are premade files in lists/

        Install pycurl:

            ./install_pycurl.sh

        Use news:

            python3 news.py

        Loop news until ctrl-c:

            ./news.sh

        Defaults for news.py:

            # color theme for 'dark' and 'light' terminals
            THEME = 'dark'
            # file containing RSS urls
            RSS_URL_FILE = 'rss_urls'
            # numer of items to show
            N_SHOW_LINES = 1000
            # maximum number of description characters to show
            MAX_DESCRIPTION_LEN = 150
            # if nonzero, will randomly shuffle news dates with std equal to this value
            MAX_DAYS_HISTORY = 0.1


AUTHOR

        Author:     Jiarui Wang
        Email:      mr.jiarui.wang@gmail.com