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Sounds like the BBC.

I was writing a script a few weeks back that polled BBC articles and does a git commit to a repo every time the text changes. One article had 6 edits within the first 20 minutes of it being published which changed the entire context of the thing.

Then I lost interest in it.



That sounds really interesting and a reflection of the BBCs generally worsening journalism. Do you have the script and repo available publicly? It would be interesting.


I would be embarrassed to publish it in its current state if I’m honest as it was written when I was drunk, cynical and after a breakup.

Please take the idea in concept and do a better job that I did!


I’m tempted! How did you store the content, as raw HTML or plain text? I imagine raw HTML would make automated diffs harder.


It was python so I used Beautiful Soup to scrape and extract just the text.




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