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by vessenes 2471 days ago
Hey Hugues and Max, congratulations.

Can I ask some questions about how this would apply to a project of mine?

I currently create a personal newspaper, printed daily in my office. It’s a reasonably large piece of software that pulls in my calendar, emails, news stories I care about, twitter feeds, weather, stock quotes, etc.

I use python’s newspaper library for parsing RSS feed links to news sites, but it is, at times lacking, so dashblock strikes me as interesting.

What I understand from the video is I could over time build out APIs with dashblock for major news sites; this would help with a few sites that are hard for newspaper.

How would I use dashblock in production - unattended, CLI Linux or Mac? Also, it looks really slow in the video, is this typical speeds? Is this something that you require be run on your cloud, or could I run it locally?

Thanks, Peter

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Thanks !

You can create an API for any website (news website included) from our Mac/Windows software and you can access this API from anywhere. It runs on our servers and you can query it from any language you want. Let us know if you need more help hello@dashblock.com