See feed here: https://twitter.com/ILNewsDiff

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A Twitter bot that keeps track of changes made in Israeli news websites.

Currently tracking:

• Haaretz
• Israel Hayom
• Walla
• N12
• ynet

Once a minute the code queries news feeds and compares them to a previous state saved in a local SQLite DB.

If an interesting change is found, a tweet is published with the diff.

The first tweet of a diff is always the article itself as a link, and all the subsequent changes are chained by order.

A change that

• Has happened and is not there because of a delay in the RSS feed. The code queries the article's page to look for the change.
• Is not comprised of only whitespace or punctuation.
• Has a difference of more than one letter (Though adding/removing a question mark '?' is interesting)

• The phantomjs binary needs to be installed, and the path updated in the run_diff.sh file.
• pip install -r requirements.txt

Twitter keys are needed.

For contributing to this repo:

• @yuvalpinter
• @eyal-kaufman

Based on @j-e-d's code for the Twitter bot @nyt_diff.
RSS feed fetching added for @xuv's Twitter bot @lesoir_diff

• Original script and idea: @j-e-d Juan E.D. https://unahormiga.com/
• RSS fetching: @xuv Julien Deswaef https://xuv.be
• Font: Merriweather
• Background pattern: Paper Fibers.