Description:

wnews

A tiny command-line newsreader.
Just execute wnews and it will give you the three or four
most important news of the past few days,
as assembled by Wikipedia editors. (See the In the news section
of Wikipedia homepage.)
wnews
→ Croatia adopts the euro and also joins the Schengen Area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia_and_the_euro

→ Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at the age of 95.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI

→ Brazilian footballer Pelé dies at the age of 82.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9

→ A winter storm causes record-breaking low temperatures and leaves more than 90
people dead across North America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_North_American_winter_storm
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Installation #
Assuming you have dart in your PATH, run the following command:
dart pub global activate wnews
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That's it.
Now, you can use wnews from anywhere on the command line.
Development #
To use wnews while developing, go to the root directory of the project,
and run
dart pub global activate --source path .
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After this, the executable in bin/wnews.dart is accessible
on your $PATH by simply typing wnews (as if you activated the version
that is on pub.dev).

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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