[GreenKeys] AP "Top Stories" gone?

[epvgk at limpoc.com]

Ok I was just looking around for some other options too. There is a service
at https://newsapi.org which provides various headlines and news sources via
an API and is free for non-commercial use, so I wrote up a half-assed python 
client for it which works ok for me:

https://github.com/epvuc/loop-gateway/blob/master/apinews.py

This outputs to standard output so if you have a way of sending that to the
teletype it should "just work."

If you're using my "loop-gateway" software (is anyone?), you can add to cmds in 
ser.py like:
'$news': { 'cmd': '/opt/ttycommands/apinews.py', 'stdin': False, 'args': False },
and run "$NEWS" on the tty to run it. 

In heavymetal I think you can add a line to heavymetal.cfg like:
-CommandCustom.NEWS=$EVAL `/opt/HeavyMetal/apinews.py`

(of course this works for any news feed program, not just this crappy one I
just wrote)

The actual AP URLs Jordan posted earlier do work for me but only return 5 headlines
which is sort of a bummer, plus they may cease to work at any time. 

eric

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 06:28:42PM -0400, Duncan Brown wrote:
> For the past 5-10 years, the AWA Museum has been entertaining our visitors
> by using the HeavyMetal v2.5 program to print out the Associated Press' Top
> Stories on a M15.  That service seems to have stopped in the past week or
> so. Have others noticed this?
> 
> I realize that the program is very dependent on the AP's "Top Stories" URL
> and if they change anything, you loose access.
> 
> Bill Buzbee's v2.5 README.txt file (31 Jul 08) explains the problem & how to
> find new URLs, but that doesn't seem to work anymore.
> 
> Does anyone know of a URL that will work for news? Something that can be put
> in the "Custom" Menu?  Or will it need processing by the program and thus
> needed to be changed in the Perl script and recompiled?
> 
> AP Top Stories is now at https://apnews.com.  Is there a better way to get
> this page as a text file without all the problems we have had with Bill's
> method? (I used Fortran in college, but I'm more of a hardware type.)
> 
> I am still using Heavy Metal 2.5 because I could never get V3.0 to work and
> v2.5 was still working OK for me.  Is V3.0 any better for changing URLs or
> being updated for these changes?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Duncan Brown, K2OEQ
> USASA  31J30
> 
> Antique Wireless Association Museum Asst. Curator, Commercial Equipment
> (also Chief TTY operator & repairman)
> http://www.antiquewireless.org/
> 
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