Web News Reader

• This is a small project which attempts to deal with the author's frustration having to check if a million websites have changed, and that too every day. Please note that UNLIKE similar services found elsewhere, this program can track any website, not necessarily only news sites or RSS Feeds. The fact that this program uses only the HTTP-Header info means that any site running HTTP can be tracked for updates (which is basically any site you can find on the internet). However currently support for HTTPS is lacking; thus you will be unable to access secure or private content pages, such as, say, your email box. However, you can use it to see if, for example, this page has changed since you last saw it!

• I really need help to improve this project. Please join if you can. Contact me via http://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.php?touser=2955941. You will need a sourceforge account (membership is free, join if you haven't yet)

• It is currently in a beta state.

• WARNING for SVN Users: This project's SVN repository was reset recently. Please do NOT re-use your old checkouts

• The command line version 0.60-rc3 is recommended for all those who want to use the program. However people who want to see the future of this project can checkout the svn version by typing this out: (Please note that for this version you need PyQt as well)

  svn co https://webnewsreader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/webnewsreader/trunk webnewsreader

• Usage (command-line version):

  • Download the latest version of Python 2.6 for your operating system from here. (Do NOT try to run the source on Python 3.x.x or Python 2.5.x)

  • Download the file wnr.py

  • Open a Command Prompt

  • Change Directory to the directory where you have kept wnr.py

  • Run the program like so:

    wnr.py on Windows

    or

    ./wnr.py on UNIX-like OSes (Linux,BSD,etc) Users of UNIX-like OSes: make SURE you have given the "execute" file permission by executing chmod +x ./wnr.py BEFORE you try to run the program

  • Follow the instructions. Run wnr.py -h or wnr.py --help for more info

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• WebNewsReader is

• WebNewsReader was

• The change log updated 3 July 2010 is_here

• This documentation was generated using DocUtils. The ReST sources are_here

• This project is hosted on

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