pygooglenews VS RVS_Spinner

I have ~4k start in 2 Python libraries. Both help fetch live news articles. Links below.

These were my first libraries.

I took the approach of promoting them as any other product. You have to "sell" your code. Even if it's 100% free.

In my opinion, the most important thing is DEMO. Just make a GIF where you showcase what your software does:

* 80% of engineers won't even bother to read the description

No one will spend their precious time trying to get through your code.

[0] https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher Programmatically collect normalized news from (almost) any website.

[1] https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews If Google News had a Python library

I wrote a pygooglenews package for news mining out of google news.

I'm curious where the data get fetched from. The Author mentions that Mozilla Readability and SimplePie are used.

Readability to parse the content. SimplePie to fetch the data (I assume). Dat from RSS feeds?

In case you want to make something similar, I recently wrote a blog on where you could get news data for free [1]

(self-promo) I'd recommend to take a look at my Python package to mine news data from Google News [2]. Also, in 3 days we're releasing an absolutely free News API [3] that will support ~50-100k top stories per day.

[1] https://blog.newscatcherapi.com/an-ultimate-list-of-open-sou...

[2] https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews

[3] https://newscatcherapi.com/free-news-api

I wrote a python package to scrape google news headlines at scale: https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews

Write libraries AND services, where it makes sense.

I wrote a Python library to scrape google news [0]

We also have it as a service [1]

Want to know why? Because devs who can't pay won't pay. Businesses who can pay will rather pay for a service (API in our case), and not care about maintaining it.

[0] https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/google-news-api

You can use this Python project to scrape Google News (https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews) If you look at the code you can get a feel of how to call Google News directly.

https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews https://pypi.org/project/google-play-scraper/

That's nice!

I wrote a Swift package that does a similar thing (but as an iOS widget): https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner

My own experience, is that I keep on not using it in my projects. It's too much of an "in your face" widget.

I learned the hard way, that iconic UI is probably not the best way to go.

But designers pretty much insist on it, these days, and fun, ensues (and sometimes, FukN sues).

I have found the best UI, is UI that gets out of the way, and doesn't call attention to itself. There's a reason that waitstaff usually wear black.

An example: I designed this really clever Swift UI widget (not SwiftUI)[0].

I keep trying to use it in my projects, and keep removing it, because it's too "in your face."

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner

I generally have a “What Problem Does This Solve?” section in my READMEs.

https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_TZ_Lookup#what-probl...

https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_MeetingServer#what-p...

https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner#what-probl...

https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_BlueThoth#what-pro...

https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_PersistentPrefs#wh...

etc.

He's talking about this spinner apparently https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner

I've become unenamored of the "Measured Human" lifestyle.

This is where everything we do is metered, and our lives become "data-driven."

It does bring results, but I feel there are significant costs; usually difficult to measure.

One of the things that I will do, as I write software, is evaluate the code I'm working on, for reusability.

Often, to make something reusable, I need to avoid optimizing it for a specific application, and "generalize" it.

Most of my little SPM modules were developed this way. If I think it deserves it, I'll stop work on my principal project, and break out the subsystem into its own project and repo. Once I have it standalone, tested, and ready, I will re-integrate it, as an external SPM module.

In more than one instance, I have removed the code from the principal project, because it was not something that would contribute to the main goal.

But I now have this neat little SPM module, ready to be used in other projects. Here's an example of a project that never made it into any of final results, but I think is pretty neat[0].

Some of my modules are basically my "baseline." These are used in everything I do.

Many would consider my workstyle "wasteful," but it works for me.

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner