Fishwrap 🐟📰

“Yesterday’s News, Tomorrow’s Wrapper.”

Fishwrap is a bespoke, automated newspaper engine for the digital age. It transforms the chaos of the internet into a calm, curated, and distraction-free daily briefing.

Get Started on GitHub View Demo

Why Fishwrap?

🕵️‍♀️ Your Private Newsroom

Stop doom-scrolling. Fishwrap acts as your personal editorial staff. It fetches content from your favorite RSS feeds, Reddit communities, and Hacker News discussions, applying your specific rules to decide what matters.

🚫 No Clickbait, Just Content

The built-in Enhancer scrapes the full text of every article. You get a clean, unified reading experience without ads, pop-ups, or paywall snippets. Read the story, not the wrapper.

📊 Smart Scoring

Fishwrap doesn’t just list headlines. It calculates an Impact Score for every item based on votes, comments, and freshness. You define the formula. Want to prioritize heated discussions on Hacker News? You can.

Quick Start

Fishwrap is a Python application you run on your own machine or server.

Clone the Repo:

git clone https://github.com/maxspevack/fishwrap.git
cd fishwrap

Run the Demo:
```
make setup
make run-vanilla
```
Read: Open demo/output/latest.html in your browser.

Documentation

Versioning Strategy: How we manage releases.
Release Notes: What’s new in the latest version.
Architecture Deep Dive: Understanding the Fetch/Edit/Enhance/Print pipeline.

About

Fishwrap is an open-source project created by Max Spevack. It is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.