NEWScan – Front pages of today’s newspapers in customizable carousel view

https://files.rayogram.com/news/

by subpixel • 5 years ago

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drewg123• 5 years ago

Wow, this is interesting. It seems to be scan of the front page of a variety of physical newspapers. I've bookemarked it.

eatonphil• 5 years ago

This is really cool. I've been brainstorming how to build an app that allows you to browse major newspapers by country/region so you can easily get exposed to news in other places. I think it would look something like this site. If someone does this first or this site becomes like that (it needs an index and grouping system) I'd love to hear about it.

ketchup_57• 5 years ago

I love this!

jonwinstanley• 5 years ago

This is very interesting. Is it updated daily? How does the site get the images? They are extremely high quality.

tyingq2• 5 years ago

How does the site get the images?

Guessing via things like:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/17/nytfrontpage/scan...

https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?...

https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/html5/desktop/prod...

subpixel2• 5 years ago

I didn't built it, but the data is from newseum.org / api.freedomforum.org

gavinbt• 5 years ago

I use an Apple Shortcut to view the day’s NYTimes page 1: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b1f3a2bf3cd4462c952c167e165...

imranhou• 5 years ago

This is great! How are you dealing with copyright issues here?

smhenderson• 5 years ago

I would assume it falls under fair use. I had the same reaction until I realized, as cool as it is, you only get the cover. Every article on a page ends with a "turn to page A9" type of prompt and since those pages are not part of this they're not distributing the whole article.

My $.02, IANAL, etc., etc.

foolinaround• 5 years ago

this is a really cool idea.

Can I make a feature request?

I should be able to search on some tag like 'Afghanistan' and get the pages from the papers around the world with articles on it.

Likewise for yesterday's pact US/UK did with Australia : Would love to quickly scan what the editorials in US, Europe, China, India etc have to say on it.

artembugara• 5 years ago

Really nice!

If anyone wants something similar but in a structured JSON REST API: https://newscatcherapi.com/news-api

Disclaimer: I am a co-founder of NewsCatcher

xabi• 5 years ago

Front pages all around the world categorized: https://en.kiosko.net/

stronglikedan• 5 years ago

Seems to be a delay there, where OPs site focuses on the current day's papers. Still cool nonetheless.

eli2• 5 years ago

Oh neat, I built a little script that pulls front pages from https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/ and displays them on an eInk screen.

https://github.com/elidickinson/newsvision

beardyw• 5 years ago

For the UK I use this, but you need to beware of your sanity when looking at most of them.

https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/

IcyHordr• 5 years ago

Noice

_RPL5_• 5 years ago

This is a nice tool. I wonder, if with some additional bells and whistles, like machine translation, bookmarking, and tag search, this could be a product people would be willing to pay for.

eli2• 5 years ago

You'd probably then need to actually get permission from the news publishers

ChrisArchitect• 5 years ago

(2009)

Surprised this hasn't been on here, possibly other main url (minus files.)

NEWScan – Front pages of today’s newspapers in customizable carousel view

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