Commit 499ca54

hackernewsd

Daemon that notifies you of any stories that match your list of queries.

Install - Windows

TODO!!!!!

Create in your home folder (C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME) a file called ".hackernewsdrc".
Replace the queries in the example below with whatever keywords you want the daemon to look for

{
	"queries": [ ".NET", "C#", "Microsoft", "CLR", "F#", "Mono" ]
}

Clone the project
Install the dependencies

 pip install -r requirements.txt

Move the script to the startup application folder

mv hackernewsd.py C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\hackernewsd.pyw

Install - Linux

Create in your home folder (/home/YOUR_USERNAME) a file called ".hackernewsdrc".
Replace the queries in the example below with whatever keywords you want the daemon to look for

{
	"queries": [ ".NET", "C#", "Microsoft", "CLR", "F#", "Mono" ]
}

Download the binary

cd ~
curl -JOL "https://github.com/somegenericdev/hackernewsd/releases/download/v1.0.2/hackernewsd-v1.0.2-linux64.zip" && unzip hackernewsd-v*-linux64.zip && sudo mv hackernewsd /bin/hackernewsd
chmod +x /bin/hackernewsd
chown $USER:$USER /bin/hackernewsd

Create a systemd service

cd /etc/systemd/system
sudo touch hackernewsd.service
sudo tee -a hackernewsd.service > /dev/null <<EOT
[Unit]
Description=hackernewsd

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/bin
ExecStart=/bin/hackernewsd
Restart=always
# Restart service after 10 seconds if the service crashes:
RestartSec=10
KillSignal=SIGINT
SyslogIdentifier=log.hackernewsd
TimeoutStopSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOT

sudo systemctl start hackernewsd
sudo systemctl enable hackernewsd

~~TODO, this systemd thing doesnt work, it tries to run as root. try https://askubuntu.com/questions/1371102/running-systemd-service-as-user-rather-than-root~~

Build from source

Install the dependency list

 pip install -r requirements.txt #windows
 pip install $(cat requirements.txt | grep --invert-match "win11toast") #linux

Install pyinstaller

pip install -U pyinstaller

Build the project with pyinstaller

pyinstaller --noconsole --onefile src/app.py

TODO

Trovare libreria con evento onclick cross platform per notifiche

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