fakenews: script for creating a twitter digest

2020-04-21 22:24:30 +02:00 · 2020-04-21 22:24:30 +02:00 · 9231e51a38
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+#########################################################
+# fakenews                                             ##
+#   create an html digest of watched twitter accounts  ##
+#   with https://codemadness.org/git/tscrape/ and gawk ##
+#########################################################
+
+# keep one twitter account per line in here
+accountsfile=".fakenews"
+outfile="/tmp/fakenews_out.html"
+
+echo '<html><head><title>News</title></head><body>' > $outfile
+
+while read account; do
+    echo "<h3>$account</h3><dl>" >> $outfile
+    curl -H 'User-Agent:' -s "https://twitter.com/$account" |
+	tscrape |
+	awk -F '\t' '{$1 = strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S",$1); print "<dt>" $6 "</dt><dd>" $4 " <small>" $1 "</small></dd>"}' |
+	sed 's/https:[^ ]*/<a href="&">&<\/a>/g' >> $outfile
+    echo "</dl>" >> $outfile
+done < "$accountsfile"
+
+echo '</body></html>' >> $outfile
+xdg-open $outfile