The newsfeed
module is one of the default modules of the MagicMirror.
This module displays news headlines based on an RSS feed. Scrolling through news headlines happens time-based (updateInterval
), but can also be controlled by sending news feed specific notifications to the module.
To use this module, add it to the modules array in the config/config.js
file:
modules: [
{
module: "newsfeed",
position: "bottom_bar", // This can be any of the regions. Best results in center regions.
config: {
// The config property is optional.
// If no config is set, an example calendar is shown.
// See 'Configuration options' for more information.
feeds: [
{
title: "New York Times",
url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
},
{
title: "BBC",
url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/news_front_page/rss.xml?edition=uk",
},
]
}
}
]
MagicMirror's notification mechanism allows to send notifications to the newsfeed
module. The following notifications are supported:
Notification Identifier | Description |
---|---|
ARTICLE_NEXT |
Shows the next news title (hiding the summary or previously fully displayed article) |
ARTICLE_PREVIOUS |
Shows the previous news title (hiding the summary or previously fully displayed article) |
ARTICLE_MORE_DETAILS |
When received the first time, shows the corresponding description of the currently displayed news title. The module expects that the module's configuration option showDescription is set to false (default value). When received a second consecutive time, shows the full news article in an IFRAME. This requires that the news page can be embedded in an IFRAME, e.g. doesn't have the HTTP response header X-Frame-Options set to e.g. DENY .When received the next consecutive times, reloads the page and scrolls down by scrollLength pixels to paginate through the article. |
ARTICLE_LESS_DETAILS |
Hides the summary or full news article and only displays the news title of the currently viewed news item. |
ARTICLE_TOGGLE_FULL |
Toogles article in fullscreen. |
ARTICLE_INFO_REQUEST |
Causes newsfeed to respond with the notification ARTICLE_INFO_RESPONSE , the payload of which provides the title , source , date , desc and url of the current news title. |
Note the payload of the sent notification event is ignored.
The following example shows how the next news article title can be displayed on the MagicMirror.
this.sendNotification('ARTICLE_NEXT');
The third party MMM-Gestures module supports above notifications when moving your hand up, down, left or right in front of a gesture sensor attached to the MagicMirror. See module's readme for more details.
The following properties can be configured:
Option | Description |
---|---|
feeds |
An array of feed urls that will be used as source. More info about this object can be found below. Default value: [{ title: "New York Times", url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml", encoding: "UTF-8" }] You can add reloadInterval option to set particular reloadInterval to a feed. |
showSourceTitle |
Display the title of the source. Possible values: true or false Default value: true |
showPublishDate |
Display the publish date of an headline. Possible values: true or false Default value: true |
showDescription |
Display the description of an item. Possible values: true or false Default value: false |
wrapTitle |
Wrap the title of the item to multiple lines. Possible values: true or false Default value: true |
wrapDescription |
Wrap the description of the item to multiple lines. Possible values: true or false Default value: true |
truncDescription |
Truncate description? Possible values: true or false Default value: true |
lengthDescription |
How many characters to be displayed for a truncated description? Possible values: 1 - 500 Default value: 400 |
hideLoading |
Hide module instead of showing LOADING status. Possible values: true or false Default value: false |
reloadInterval |
How often does the content needs to be fetched? (Milliseconds) Possible values: 1000 - 86400000 Default value: 300000 (5 minutes) |
updateInterval |
How often do you want to display a new headline? (Milliseconds) Possible values: 1000 - 60000 Default value: 10000 (10 seconds) |
animationSpeed |
Speed of the update animation. (Milliseconds) Possible values: 0 - 5000 Default value: 2500 (2.5 seconds) |
maxNewsItems |
Total amount of news items to cycle through. (0 for unlimited) Possible values: 0 - ... Default value: 0 |
ignoreOldItems |
Ignore news items that are outdated. Possible values: true or false Default value: false |
ignoreOlderThan |
How old should news items be before they are considered outdated? (Milliseconds) Possible values: 1 - ... Default value: 86400000 (1 day) |
removeStartTags |
Some newsfeeds feature tags at the beginning of their titles or descriptions, such as [VIDEO]. This setting allows for the removal of specified tags from the beginning of an item's description and/or title. Possible values: 'title' , 'description' , 'both' |
startTags |
List the tags you would like to have removed at the beginning of the feed item Possible values: ['TAG'] or ['TAG1','TAG2',...] |
removeEndTags |
Remove specified tags from the end of an item's description and/or title. Possible values: 'title' , 'description' , 'both' |
endTags |
List the tags you would like to have removed at the end of the feed item Possible values: ['TAG'] or ['TAG1','TAG2',...] |
prohibitedWords |
Remove news feed item if one of these words is found anywhere in the title (case insensitive and greedy matching) Possible values: ['word'] or ['word1','word2',...] |
scrollLength |
Scrolls the full news article page by a given number of pixels when a ARTICLE_MORE_DETAILS notification is received and the full news article is already displayed.Possible values: 1 or 10000 Default value: 500 |
logFeedWarnings |
Log warnings when there is an error parsing a news article. Possible values: true or false Default value: false |
The feeds
property contains an array with multiple objects. These objects have the following properties:
Option | Description |
---|---|
title |
The name of the feed source to be displayed above the news items. This property is optional. |
url |
The url of the feed used for the headlines. Example: 'http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml' |
encoding |
The encoding of the news feed. This property is optional. Possible values: 'UTF-8' , 'ISO-8859-1' , etc ... Default value: 'UTF-8' |