Code Challenge 48 - Create a Python News Digest Tool

PyBites, Sun 07 January 2018, Challenge

chdata analysis, digest, information overload, news, Planet Python, tools, Twitter


Hi Pythonistas, welcome to a new year of challenges. Are you as amazed as we are by all the awesome Python stuff that comes out every week? But then you feel you always are behind because you lack the time to keep up? Welcome to daily reality. In this challenge we have you contribute to our community with tools to improve our weekly delivery of Python News. Be creative, have fun!

The Challenge

See our News archive. We use Bob's PHP tool to pick and choose Python related tweets. It creates the required html for our digest post. It works quite well. However wouldn't it be nicer to have a Python powered tool?!

It currently only supports one Twitter handle at a time. What if we could have 3 columns: own tweets, influencers and #Python and/or other related hashtag (#Django, #ML, ...)

What about other Python news resources like the weekly newsletters (Python weekly, PyCoder's weekly, Awesome Python, etc), could we pull those feeds in too?

Then we have Planet Python, a source of new Python articles. BTW it seems our and potentially other feeds are broken there so bonus karma if somebody can debug and fix it! :)

What about Reddit? Could we pull in a digest of /Python and /learnpython.

The goal is to code a simple solution PyBites and the Python community can use to digest awesome news. We know the newsletters are there to solve this problem, yet how would YOU code this up?

Use you favorite tool, it does not have to be a web app. As long as your solution includes Python. We review this challenge beginning of February.

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