A Command Line Utility To Stay Up to Date!
The following libraries were used in this project:
| Library | Purpose |
|---|---|
| cloudscraper | Retrieve website content reliably from sites that use Cloudflare. |
| beautifulsoup4 | Parse and extract HTML content. |
# Create a virtual environment (recommended)
python3 -m venv in4m-venv
# Activate the environment
source in4m-venv/bin/activate
# Install requirements
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
# Make the file in4m executable if not and Done!usage: in4m [-h] [--no-cache] [--limit LIMIT] [--set-sources SET_SOURCES] [--list-sources] [--no-links] [--keyword KEYWORD]
A tool to get up-to-date information security news from curated sources
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--no-cache, -nc Force scraping and ignore cached results
--limit LIMIT, -l LIMIT
Limit number of news items per source
--set-sources SET_SOURCES, -ss SET_SOURCES
Set the news sources to use (comma-separated list of source Names or Numbers NO-SPACE or `all` for all sources)
--list-sources, -ls List available and currently selected news sources
--no-links, -nl Do not show URLs to news
--keyword KEYWORD, -k KEYWORD
Search for keywords in news titlesSet three sources you like and trigger scraping.
./in4m -ss hackread,watchtowr,1 --no-cacheSet all sources.
./in4m -ss all -ncList sources.
./in4m -lsLook for keyword cve (case insensitive).
./in4m -k cve -l3
Important: To avoid unnecessary scraping, only the set sources are scraped and saved to the cache, if you want to add new sources that haven't been scraped you will need to add the -nc flag to re-trigger scraping.