newscatcher

I have ~4k start in 2 Python libraries. Both help fetch live news articles. Links below. These were my first libraries. I took the approach of promoting them as any other product. You have to "sell" your code. Even if it's 100% free. In my opinion, the most important thing is DEMO. Just make a GIF where you showcase what your software does: * 80% of engineers won't even bother to read the description No one will spend their precious time trying to get through your code. [0] https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher Programmatically collect normalized news from (almost) any website. [1] https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews If Google News had a Python library

Nice job! I love the UI. For hackers who want to find the best open sourced tools to work/parse news data (disclaimer: I'm a creator to some of those): 1. PyGoogleNews [1] -- If Google News had a Python library 2. NewsCatcher [2] -- Programmatically collect normalized news from (almost) any website 3. NewsPaper3k [3] -- Article scraping & curation 4. Mercury Parser [4] -- Extracting content from chaos [1] https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews` [2] https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher [3] https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper [4] https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser

Gosh, I couldn't understand what is going on. I thought some students from India want to have a PR accepted to a popular repo. Just look t those: https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher/pulls

I think it will not harm. Usually, because people who cannot pay - will not. People/companies who need high quality products and/or have expensive labour will choose a paid plan. For Example, Elasticsearch. So popular, fully open-sourced. Still, Elastic sells fully managed clusters. And, many companies choose Enterprise license. If you want smaller example. 2 month prior the beta launch of NewsCatcherAPI (https://newscatcherapi.com) I decided to open source some code we've done (https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher). We ended up having 300 people fro beta sign-up. Then, 700 pre-launch. So, I attracted lots of developers who already liked the field via open-sourcing Edit: grammar

While I was working on my “startup” one guy wrote me the following: “I lost my internship due to COVID. I’d like to help you guys with your project”. So, it was hard to us to find some job for the guy but we were open sourcing our job. I told the guy to work on a next version of our open-sourced Python package[1]. After we released it, it went #1 on Hacker News. I put him everywhere in the credits. You can still see him in our “Team” section[2]. The next day he got 2 offers. [1] https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher [2] https://newscatcherapi.com/team

Will you? https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher/issues/3

This is literally just a sqlite db with rss feeds and a python script with a very misleading description. The real purpose of this post is to get traffic for their paid news api. Also this closed issue is hilarious! https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher/issues/3

About 3 weeks ago we open-sourced PART of what our API will do. We got 700+ stars on GitHub and 200 signups for beta just from the GitHub. https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher Try to open source some part of your solution. Charge for some additional stuff. The open-source part will make you more credible in front of the clients.

2 weeks ago, I released a Python package (700+ stars on GitHub) that "automagically scrapes" the last news from more than 3k news sources. You just have to provide the base form of URL. Behind the package is just a list of websites and their RSS URLs. For example, the input is "nytimes.com" and the output is all the latest news. So, it's quite alive. GitHub: https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher