ign-news first release

Overview

This go service through the use of Twilio and NewsAPI will hit the NewsAPI endpoint for igns headlines and send them to your cellphone number along with a small description of the headline and a link to the article or video.

Setup

For this program to work you need to export these things in your environment:

export TWILIO_API_KEY=[api-key]
export TWILIO_SID=[account-sid]
export TWILIO_NUMBER=[your twilio number]
export NEWS_API_KEY=[api-key]

Both your Twilio API key and account SID can be found on your twilio console

News API key can be found after signing up with https://newsapi.org/

Usage

The contract for this program is as follows:

./news <number to send messages to>

Note: the number needs to have the country Dialing code as well.
So for the United States an example number would be
+15555555555