Science News Scraper

Emphyrio.io — Science News Scraper

A simple yet elegant Flask-based web app that scrapes and displays English science news via RSS feeds. Built for Raspberry Pi 4 (running Pi OS Lite), designed with Tailwind and lucide icons, featuring dark mode, favorites, filtering, and responsive layout.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Full-text search
• 📡 Feed source filter
• ❤️ Save favorites
• 🌙 Dark mode toggle
• 🖼️ Grid & List views
• ♻️ Manual refresh
• 📰 Modal preview of articles
• 🔌 Designed to run 24/7 on Raspberry Pi

🚀 Getting Started

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• Flask
• feedparser
• python-dateutil

Install dependencies:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the app

python app.py

Access the web UI on:

http://<your-pi-ip>:5000

🛠️ Manage RSS Feeds

Click the 🟠 RSS icon in the header to manage sources. You can:

• Add new feeds
• Toggle activation
• Delete feeds

📂 Project Layout

• app.py: Main Flask app
• templates/index.html: Front-end layout
• news.db: SQLite database
• requirements.txt: Dependencies
• README.md: This file

💡 Hosting

You can auto-start this app on boot via:

• systemd service
• Docker (optional)
• or just a cron job

https://github.com/emphyri0/sciencenewsscraper