{"repo":"zealot128/filter-app","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/zealot128/filter-app","clone":"git clone https://github.com/zealot128/filter-app.git","description":"Rails app - news aggregator that powers http://hrfilter.de and http://fahrrad-filter.de","language":"Ruby","stars":28,"topics":["rails","rss","news-aggregator"],"license":"MIT","category":"productivity","readme_excerpt":"News aggregator app This is a Ruby-on-Rails app for running (German) news aggregator websites. Today, it powers: http://www.hrfilter.de (German news of HR/personal/recruiting) http://www.fahrrad-filter.de (German/English news of cycling topic) Reasoning I want to follow news of those two areas but struggle with RSS, as it is too much for me too process - I want to see the most \"relevant\" sources at once, without investing too much time. Other sources, like Twitter + Reddit I found too noisy to follow. This is why I created that app News fetching + scoring algorithm The admin of the apps curates a list of trusted sources. Those will regularly checked for new content. Following news sources are supported: RSS/Atom feeds (FeedSource) Podcast via RSS/Atom (similar as FeedSource but different visual) Twitter Streams (in planning) RedditSources - subscribe whole /r/'s In similar fashion, the app checks popularity of the news in social network, that means: Facebook likecount (as reported by Facebook Like Button) Twitter retweets + favorites (as reported by Twitter API) XING + LinkedIn shares (as reported by regarding Widgets) Reddit total score sum in all subreddits (if exists) Each of those sources is configured with a different value (e.g. Facebook likes are more common, so less value than XING share) The admin of the sites can give a Source individual: Base factor (that means, how much \"Likes\" any link of that website is worth, can also be negative too remove noise from some sour","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/zealot128","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/zealot128/filter-app/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}