Auto_news

A utility to fetch article requests from slack and generate pdfs for them, fully automatically.

Running

How to run - auto archiving mode

In this mode the program is launched as a docker container, in a headless mode. For persistence purposes a local storage volume is required, but that's it!

docker run -it -v <your storage>:/app/file_storage/ auto_news

You can specify additional parameters:

docker run -it -v <your storage>:/app/file_storage/ auto_news debug runs with debug values (does not write to prod db, does not send mails)

docker run -it -v <your storage>:/app/file_storage/ auto_news upload catches up on incomplete uploads to archive.

docker run -it -v <your storage>:/app/file_storage/ -e DISPLAY=":0" --network host -v \$XAUTHORITY:/root/.Xauthority auto_news check lets you visually verify the downloaded files. The additional parameters are required in order to open guis on the host.

How to run - development mode

In this mode, a docker container is launched with an additional volume, the local code. You can test your code without the need to rebuild the image.

docker run -it -v <your storage>:/app/file_storage/ -v <your code>:/code/ --entry-point /bin/bash auto_news You are droppped into a bash shell, in which you can navigate to the /code directory and then test live.

Building

Things to keep in mind

The software (firefox, selenium, python) changes frequently. For non-breaking changes it is useful to regularly clean build the docker image! This is also crucial to update the code itself.

docker build -t auto_news --no-cache . where the Dockerfile has to be in the working directory

Cheat-sheet Remy:

docker run -it -v /mnt/Data/COSS/CONTAINERDATA/:/app/file_storage/ auto_news

docker run -it -v /mnt/Data/COSS/CONTAINERDATA/:/app/file_storage/ -v /mnt/Data/COSS/auto_news/app:/code --entrypoint /bin/bash auto_news

docker run -it -v /mnt/Data/COSS/CONTAINERDATA/:/app/file_storage/ -e DISPLAY=":0" --network host -v XAUTHORITY:/root/.Xauthority auto_news check

Roadmap:

[ ] automatically upload files to NAS [ ] handle paywalled sites like faz, spiegel, .. through their dedicated edu-sites ...

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