/newsTitleCrop

A program that produces a gif of news article headlines focused around a specific word.

Primary LanguagePython

work-in-progress

News title cropper

A common thing seen in video essays and documentaries, is a clip/animation showing many news articles, centered around the specific word of interest. This is usually done manually in video editing software, where the editor takes many screenshots of news articles and meticulously aligns them to generate the video.

Vice Metaverse

A clip from a Vice news video

Currently only supports BBC News.

Use:

python main.py [-h] word numPages

Example

python main.py metaverse 1

Results:

results

Result with slow zoom:

results

Ukraine result:

results

Result from the Daily Mail:

results

To-do:

  • Add support for the Daily Mail and other news sources and
  • Allow words to be found even if surrounded by punctuation, and crop accordingly
  • Allow the user to specify parameters like the zoom level, image duration and whether case should be ignored