the CRAWL

A lightweight CLI, RSS-XML newsreader written for my personal use, whose output is a lightweight html aggregation of a few thousand news stories. For the most part, it makes no assumptions about what's in the news and this is deliberate. It is my attempt to keep abreast of the world.

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tfileme Posted 2013-05-19

Newscrawl is wonderful! Thanks.

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Operating Systems

Cygwin

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Console/Terminal

Registered

2012-08-21

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