Python utility for displaying Arch news feed in console.
I was looking for an utility that would quickly show the Arch Linux news feed in command line before upgrading my system. Unfortunately I did not find any program that would suit my needs. So I wrote my own and I took it also as a practice in Python programming.
Features:
- It is written in pure Python 3, no extra dependencies are needed.
- It wraps feed description to improve readability and tries to interpret HTML as nicely as possible.
- It uses colors. (Can be turned off.)
- Time is formatted according locale.
- Supports tracking of unread messages.
- Comes with a transparent
pacmanwrapper (calledarchnews_wrap), so one will never miss a news when doingpacman -Syu. (See section Pacman wrapper or a manual page.) - Many command line options! (See
--helpor manual page.)
Because this is a tool specifically for Arch Linux, install it via AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/archnews2/
Utility archnews comes with a shell script called archnews_wrap. It just passes all its parameters to pacman unless parameters are -Syu (or its variant like e.g. -Syyu). In this case it invokes archnews with --unread option (and then pacman on user input).
archnews_wrap is designed to be used as shell alias for pacman like this:
alias sudo='sudo ' # This enables aliases for commands inside sudo.
alias pacman=archnews_wrap # This invokes wrapper whenever pacman is called.Thus you will never miss a news when doing system upgrade!
I am willing to maintain and further develop the project, so any contribution (issues, ideas, pull requests) is welcome.