Dockerized python app to create RSS feeds for hackernews entries

Creates a docker service that generates a feed of articles from the hackernews rss feed.

It uses readability to extract the content from the pages, but can also access Full-Text-RSS (local or otherwise) for specific sites. It also includes redis for caching.

Setup

Copy .env-dist to .env and change the configuration. Most of the times it's just about FULLTEXT_RSS_URL and LOG_LEVEL.

Start the service with:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d

Usage

The rss feed will be available at:

http://localhost:5000/hnrss.org/newest

If you want to only pick the ones with high votes you can specify it in the HN url, eg.

http://localhost:5000/hnrss.org/newest?points=50

Notes

• Not every url is parsed. For instance PDFs and twits will be marked as such and passed through.
• Article URL and Comments URL are appended at the end of the parsed article so that the HN discussion is still accessible.