[GreenKeys] AP "Top Stories" gone?

[Paul Heller]

My biggest disappointment with all the RSS feeds any more is that they have limited the content so much that it is only headlines (and sometimes barely that) and not stories. The old feeds had a tag with more than the headline, but that tag seems useless these days. They want you to click thru the the website for the ad revenues.  

I have not looked at newsapi.org yet. I’ll take a look. Is it the same as what other feeds have become?

Paul
W2TTY

ITTY:			HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8000/ITTY
AUTOSTART: HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8030/AUTOSTART
EUROPE:		HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8040/EUROPE

> On Apr 29, 2018, at 9:58 AM, epvgk at limpoc.com wrote:
> 
> 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/
>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
>> 
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> GreenKeys mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
>> 
>> 2002-to-present greenkeys archive: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/
>> 1998-to-2001 greenkeys archive: http://mailman.qth.net/archive/greenkeys/greenkeys.html
>> Randy Guttery's 2001-to-2009 GreenKeys Search Tool: http://comcents.com/tty/greenkeyssearch.html
>> 
>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> ______________________________________________________________
> GreenKeys mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
> 
> 2002-to-present greenkeys archive: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/
> 1998-to-2001 greenkeys archive: http://mailman.qth.net/archive/greenkeys/greenkeys.html
> Randy Guttery's 2001-to-2009 GreenKeys Search Tool: http://comcents.com/tty/greenkeyssearch.html
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/attachments/20180429/b1b5f0db/attachment.html>