Spoken

This is a hack developed at the 24 hour news hackathon Hackaway in the Stockholm archipelago.

Check it out at Nyhetspr.at.

Periodically consumes the RSS feeds for the major Swedish news sites Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet and Expressen. Reads you the latest headline from each when you call the service. Marks headlines as "heard" so you won't be bothered with the same news over and over. Will send you a welcome SMS the first time you call the service to which you can, optionally, reply with your email address or Twitter handle in which case we'll send you the links to the full articles whose headlines you've listened to.

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Running it

Built to be run locally with foreman and in ze clouds on Heroku.

You'll need...

• ...a Heroku instance
  • ...with an attached Redis instance
• ...a Twilio account with
  • ...a SMS number
  • ...a voice number
• ...a Twitter account
  • ...with a Twitter application

The following environment variables needs to be setup

• REDISCLOUD_URL
• TWILIO_SID
• TWILIO_TOKEN
• TWILIO_SMS_NUMBER
• TWITTER_KEY
• TWITTER_SECRET
• TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
• TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET
• SENDGRID_USERNAME
• SENDGRID_PASSWORD