The-Newslens_HW - A RSS reader by ourselves

Authors : LinAnita, peyruchao(peggy) and ethancychen

The website: The News Lens ( http://www.thenewslens.com )

This website is a platform to provide different and multiple points of the news or some accidents. It can let users to discuss the news and make comments.

What do we want to scrape?

The title, author and lauched time of the news in NewsLens.com's main page.

Usage

In command line just type in ruby newsdigests.rb and our program will put out a new file(test.txt) in the directory. The file shows the titles, author and lauched time of the news in NewsLens.com's main page. No parameters is needed. For example, if we type ruby newsdigests.rb in command line, it will produce a file call "test.txt". The outcome of the file will be look like this:

 
---
title: 習近平點名批評央視「大褲衩」，北京此後不再興建奇怪建築
author: KaChun
date: 2014-10-18
---
title: 教師的多元發聲：第二個全國教師工會「全教產」成立
author: TNL 編輯
date: 2014-10-18

Install it with the following command: gem install thenewslensapi

Then in your file: require "thenewslensapi"