Subj : Re: Today in Histery
To   : blade
From : Zero Reader
Date : Thu May 12 2022 03:04 pm

On 12 May 2022, blade said the following...
 
 bl> I'm not very good at Pascal / MPL but I managed to throw something
 bl> together with Python.
 bl> 
 bl> It's not very polished yet but it's pretty simple and could be easily
 bl> modified. I have a few more ideas that I'm considering but I was a
 bl> little excited and wanted to share this now.

Nice work! I saw the request here a few weeks ago as well and also took a stab at using Python for it. Mine scrapes timeanddate.com/on-this-day/ using BeautifulSoup and just lays out a simple date: headline thing, just like yours.

I run mine as a cron job after midnight and just have it produce a text file for displaying on the BBS during login. It will work for any BBS.

https://pastebin.com/SeFaBFpX

I'm not a programmer, so this code is probably laughable, but it's producing the result I want. There's a lot more data on that page available for scraping that I hope to incorporate later (famous births and deaths).

-zr

.... There are two types of people; those who finish what they start and

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