NewsForBetty

A work-in-progress news site. Very early days. Aimed at those who want a simple, easy-to-read interface.

Background

Originally suggested by Melody to help out Betty, then coded by Daniel with improvements from Ben, Joseph and Marie.

News sources

News sources are RSS feeds from news websites pulled in using Yahoo's YQL which outputs nice JSON files.

To suggest a news source

Either create a new issue with the address of your suggested website, or:

1. Find the RSS feed of the news site you want to add.
2. Go to the YQL Console
3. Add the RSS URL to the YQL Statement box. For example:

select * from rss where url="http://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"

4. Select JSON (not XML) and click Test.
5. Copy the long REST query at the bottom of the screen.
6. Add this to the sources object in newsforbetty.js and send a pull request.

License

All code is released under the MIT License