The app is available at https://rszymanski.shinyapps.io/shinyfeed/
shinyfeed is a personalized news feed in the form of a Shiny app. Keep all of your news in a single place!
shinyfeed is an application that aggregates news from different sources. It makes use of RSS feeds to retrieve posts and displays them in a single view.
shinyfeed provides a grid view which displays items along with an image preview. The tool used to retrieve image previews is built using rvest and makes use of the Open Graph Protocol.
For a more compact view of the posts users can also display items in form of a list
Users can also sort items by titles and publication dates:
This project makes use of renv in order to export used dependencies and rsconnect for deployment. When opening the project R should automatically download the specified version of renv. Next in order to restore the used packages just run:
renv::restore()To start the app run:
shiny::runApp()Users can host their own aggregated news feeds by specifying rss feeds in the config.yml file:
default:
rss_feeds:
- "https://appsilon.com/rss"
- "https://blog.rstudio.com/index.xml"
- "https://www.r-bloggers.com/feed/"The version hosted on shinyapps is an example news feed that aggregates post from different blogs about R and Shiny.