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.. -*-restructuredtext-*-

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pyAggr3g470r
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.. Use headers in this order #=~-_

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:author: Cédric Bonhomme
:contact: http://cedricbonhomme.org/


Presentation
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pyAggr3g470r is a multi-threaded news aggregator with a web interface
based on CherryPy. Articles are stored in a SQLite base.


Features
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* notification of new articles by e-mail for selected feeds;
* export articles (HTML, EPUB and raw text);
* mark or unmark an article as favorites;
* share an article on Google Buzz, del.icio.us, Digg, reddit, Scoopeo and Blogmarks;
* language detection and search articles by language.


Requierements
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Software required
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Python 2.7.*
* SQLite
* feedparser (http://feedparser.org/)
* CherryPy (version 3 and up)
* BeautifulSoup


Optional module
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These modules are not required but provides better features:
* lxml and Genshi;
* oice.langdet;
* gamin.
If you want to install these modules:


EPUB generation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
wget http://codespeak.net/lxml/lxml-2.2.8.tgz
tar -xzvf lxml-2.2.8.tgz
rm -f lxml-2.2.8.tgz
cd lxml
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..
rm -Rf lxml

wget http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/genshi/Genshi-0.6.tar.gz
tar -xzvf Genshi-0.6.tar.gz
rm -f Genshi-0.6.tar.gz
cd Genshi
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..
rm -Rf Genshi

Language detection
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Name: oice.langdet
Enable the detection of the language of articles.

Installation:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/oice.langdet/
Download the archive, decompress, go to the folder and type:
python setup.py install

Advanced monitoring
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Name: Gamin
Enable a better monitoring of the base of feeds.

Installation:
aptitude install python-gamin

http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/python.html


License
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pyAggr3g470r is under GPLv3 license.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt