newstype

newstype is a news headline collecting agent scheduled to run from a web browser. It gives the user the option to fetch the news from external source through the web client side. This can be useful where some host only allows logging but not accessing external sites like Google News. The web client application also allows the automation of fetching of news from the web client side. This can also be useful as some server hosts do not provide scheduler that runs tasks such as logging news items periodically.

It is like the project newsscrape except that newstype is lightweight considering that it does not include analysis on the relationship between the news headline and the news category like newsscrape does. newstype simply does the single task of logging the fetched news items.

A demo has been set up to give an idea on how it works in action.

http://newstype.sourceforge.net/newstype/

The script can be used to customise the configurations such as the fetching intervals.