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NEWScan – Front pages of today’s newspapers in customizable carousel view

57 points by subpixel 5y ago

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eli 5y ago
Oh neat, I built a little script that pulls front pages from https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/ https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/ and displays them on an eInk screen. https://github.com/elidickinson/newsvision https://github.com/elidickinson/newsvision
drewg123 5y ago
Wow, this is interesting. It seems to be scan of the front page of a variety of physical newspapers. I've bookemarked it.
eatonphil 5y ago
This is really cool. I've been brainstorming how to build an app that allows you to browse major newspapers by country/region so you can easily get exposed to news in other places. I think it would look something like this site. If someone does this first or this site becomes like that (it needs an index and grouping system) I'd love to hear about it.
ketchup_57 5y ago
I love this!
jonwinstanley 5y ago
This is very interesting. Is it updated daily? How does the site get the images? They are extremely high quality.
- tyingq 5y ago
  >How does the site get the images? Guessing via things like: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/17/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/17/nytfrontpage/scan... https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?pubid=50435180-e58e-48b5-8e0c-236bf740270e https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?... https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/html5/desktop/production/default.aspx?edid=520883c0-998a-431a-b86d-874c9d322ded https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/html5/desktop/prod...
  - subpixel 5y ago
    I didn't built it, but the data is from newseum.org / api.freedomforum.org
    - tyingq 5y ago
      Ah, yeah. This page is fairly similar to the linked site: https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/ https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/
    - subpixel 5y ago
      Freedom Forum has an app: https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/app-for-phone-or-tablet/ https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/app-for-phone-... On the app, you can't really read the front pages, as they are downsampled images.
  - gavinbt 5y ago
    I use an Apple Shortcut to view the day’s NYTimes page 1: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b1f3a2bf3cd4462c952c167e16537b61 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b1f3a2bf3cd4462c952c167e165...
imranhou 5y ago
This is great! How are you dealing with copyright issues here?
- smhenderson 5y ago
  I would assume it falls under fair use. I had the same reaction until I realized, as cool as it is, you only get the cover. Every article on a page ends with a "turn to page A9" type of prompt and since those pages are not part of this they're not distributing the whole article. My $.02, IANAL, etc., etc.
foolinaround 5y ago
this is a really cool idea. Can I make a feature request? I should be able to search on some tag like 'Afghanistan' and get the pages from the papers around the world with articles on it. Likewise for yesterday's pact US/UK did with Australia : Would love to quickly scan what the editorials in US, Europe, China, India etc have to say on it.
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artembugara 5y ago
Really nice! If anyone wants something similar but in a structured JSON REST API: https://newscatcherapi.com/news-api https://newscatcherapi.com/news-api Disclaimer: I am a co-founder of NewsCatcher
xabi 5y ago
Front pages all around the world categorized: https://en.kiosko.net/ https://en.kiosko.net/
- stronglikedan 5y ago
  Seems to be a delay there, where OPs site focuses on the current day's papers. Still cool nonetheless.
beardyw 5y ago
For the UK I use this, but you need to beware of your sanity when looking at most of them. https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/ https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/
- IcyHordr 5y ago
  Noice
_RPL5_ 5y ago
This is a nice tool. I wonder, if with some additional bells and whistles, like machine translation, bookmarking, and tag search, this could be a product people would be willing to pay for.
- eli 5y ago
  You'd probably then need to actually get permission from the news publishers
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ChrisArchitect 5y ago
(2009) Surprised this hasn't been on here, possibly other main url (minus files.)

57 points by subpixel 5y ago

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eli 5y ago

Oh neat, I built a little script that pulls front pages from https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/ https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/ and displays them on an eInk screen. https://github.com/elidickinson/newsvision https://github.com/elidickinson/newsvision

drewg123 5y ago

Wow, this is interesting. It seems to be scan of the front page of a variety of physical newspapers. I've bookemarked it.

eatonphil 5y ago

This is really cool. I've been brainstorming how to build an app that allows you to browse major newspapers by country/region so you can easily get exposed to news in other places. I think it would look something like this site. If someone does this first or this site becomes like that (it needs an index and grouping system) I'd love to hear about it.

ketchup_57 5y ago

I love this!

jonwinstanley 5y ago

This is very interesting. Is it updated daily? How does the site get the images? They are extremely high quality.

tyingq 5y ago
>How does the site get the images? Guessing via things like: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/17/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/17/nytfrontpage/scan... https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?pubid=50435180-e58e-48b5-8e0c-236bf740270e https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?... https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/html5/desktop/production/default.aspx?edid=520883c0-998a-431a-b86d-874c9d322ded https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/html5/desktop/prod...
- subpixel 5y ago
  I didn't built it, but the data is from newseum.org / api.freedomforum.org
  - tyingq 5y ago
    Ah, yeah. This page is fairly similar to the linked site: https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/ https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/
  - subpixel 5y ago
    Freedom Forum has an app: https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/app-for-phone-or-tablet/ https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/app-for-phone-... On the app, you can't really read the front pages, as they are downsampled images.
- gavinbt 5y ago
  I use an Apple Shortcut to view the day’s NYTimes page 1: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b1f3a2bf3cd4462c952c167e16537b61 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b1f3a2bf3cd4462c952c167e165...

imranhou 5y ago

This is great! How are you dealing with copyright issues here?

smhenderson 5y ago
I would assume it falls under fair use. I had the same reaction until I realized, as cool as it is, you only get the cover. Every article on a page ends with a "turn to page A9" type of prompt and since those pages are not part of this they're not distributing the whole article. My $.02, IANAL, etc., etc.

foolinaround 5y ago

this is a really cool idea. Can I make a feature request? I should be able to search on some tag like 'Afghanistan' and get the pages from the papers around the world with articles on it. Likewise for yesterday's pact US/UK did with Australia : Would love to quickly scan what the editorials in US, Europe, China, India etc have to say on it.

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artembugara 5y ago

Really nice! If anyone wants something similar but in a structured JSON REST API: https://newscatcherapi.com/news-api https://newscatcherapi.com/news-api Disclaimer: I am a co-founder of NewsCatcher

xabi 5y ago

Front pages all around the world categorized: https://en.kiosko.net/ https://en.kiosko.net/

stronglikedan 5y ago
Seems to be a delay there, where OPs site focuses on the current day's papers. Still cool nonetheless.

beardyw 5y ago

For the UK I use this, but you need to beware of your sanity when looking at most of them. https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/ https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/

IcyHordr 5y ago
Noice

_RPL5_ 5y ago

This is a nice tool. I wonder, if with some additional bells and whistles, like machine translation, bookmarking, and tag search, this could be a product people would be willing to pay for.

eli 5y ago
You'd probably then need to actually get permission from the news publishers

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ChrisArchitect 5y ago

(2009) Surprised this hasn't been on here, possibly other main url (minus files.)