Get Beautiful News
Each day Information Is Beautiful publishes an infographic of a piece of good news (think Hans Rosling). The RSS feed is at:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/beautifulnewsdaily
This project parses the RSS feed and downloads a local copy of each graphic. I wrote this primarily to populate a daily dashboard I'm writing, but the script as delivered is meant to be run daily and will display each newly-downloaded image (to a maximum of a week's worth).
Getting Started
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running. It assumes a Unix-like system, like MacOS.
Prerequisites
A working recentish version of ruby, and, optionally, a shell-level
open command - on my Mac, this opens the Preview.app on the
recently downloaded files. Edit the line DISPLAY_PROGRAM in the
script beautiful-news to change it for your system.
Installing
Decide where you want the files to reside, and change to that directory. Then:
$ sudo gem install nokogiri
$ git clone
$ ln -s beautiful-news/beautiful-news ~/bin/beautiful-news
$ beautiful-news
Images are saved to the beautiful-news/images directory.
Built With
- ruby
- emacs
Authors
- Randy Fischer
Acknowledgments
- Hat tip to Kevin Kelly for pointing me to Beautiful News.
License
This project uses the Nietzsche license: everything is allowed.