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RubyPinch | 8 years ago

If you don't mind me asking, how are you getting the data? just site scraping each source?

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r1b|8 years ago

It comes from Twitter! It is v expensive to directly subscribe to each wire service - also difficult to maintain scrapers for each. Many services already post links to Twitter - for the ones that don't it is easy to create an account driven by a scraper & maintain the common interface.

You can check out the code here: https://github.com/r1b/news-wires