2.2 KiB
The Hacker News RSS Widget
With this widget, you can add a news feed from The Hacker News to any website based on a Linux server.
Setup
- Drag the
src/ef/
folder into the same folder as the webpage on the target machine. The folder with your webpage will be represented by/path_to_webpage/
. - Add a
cron
job to run it once per hour. The easiest way to do this is to run this command:
crontab -e
and then add the following lines to your crontab
:
0 * * * * cd /path_to_webpage/ef/ && python3 xml-download.py
- Copy the code in
hack-news-widget.html
to where you want your news widget on your webpage.
How it works
The xml-download.py
file downloads the RSS feed from the provided endpoint. Theoretically this hardcoded endpoint, but this is specifically designed for Hacker News. The reason this isn't just placed in the webpage code is to prevent CORS errors and vulnerabilities.
The Python 3.8 code downloads the RSS feed into the src/ef/feed.xml
file. It then takes that feed and translates it into a pretty HTML template. The template includes references to the following files:
news_scroll.js
, which controls the scrolling animation.news_scroll.css
, which has a reference to the fancy terminal-based color scheme inpalette.css
, as well as styling to control the size of the entire widget.
UX Configuration
The best place to look for customizing this template to your liking is in news_scroll.css
. Width, text decoration, and font sizes can be adjust from there. If fonts or colors are what you're looking to adjust, check the terminal
theme in palette.css
.
Samples
Dependencies
cron
requests
NOTICE: Heavily modified from the Allwebco Design Corporation IFrame news scroller