#!/bin/bash
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# fakenews ##
# create an html digest of watched twitter accounts ##
# with https://codemadness.org/git/tscrape/ and gawk ##
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# keep one twitter account per line in here
accountsfile=".fakenews"
outfile="/tmp/fakenews_out.html"
numberOfTweets=5
echo '<html><head><title>News</title><style>a { color : black; } a:hover { color : red; } </style></head><body>' > $outfile
while read account; do
echo "Fetching $account..."
echo "<h3>$account</h3><dl>" >> $outfile
curl -H 'User-Agent:' -s "https://twitter.com/$account" |
tscrape |
head -n $numberOfTweets |
awk -F '\t' '{$1 = strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S",$1); print "<dt>" $6 "</dt><dd>" $4 " <br><small><a href=\"https://twitter.com/" $6 "/status/" $5 "\">" $1 "</a></small></dd>"}' |
sed 's/\([^"]\)\(https:[^ ]*\)/\1<a href="\2">\2<\/a>/g' |
sed 's/>\(https:[^<]*.jpg\)/>PIC/g' >> $outfile
echo "</dl>" >> $outfile
done < "$accountsfile"
echo '</body></html>' >> $outfile
xdg-open $outfile