Request 📱

All APIs (social media, news, RSS, ...) in one App.

About

Request is a graphical program that shows posts from your favorite social media platforms, news sites, RSS-Feeds in a united way.

Websites and Apps need an account, load to long, show advertisements, pop-ups and track you. Request shall be a solution that fixes the bloated web temporarily.

Goals 🏁

• uniform (customizable) appearance 🧚
• no advertisement 🛑
• less surveillance 🕵

Reason ⛓

• Websites are getting bigger and take longer to load 📦⏰
• Every site looks different (bad for old people 👴)
• Content gets hidden by advertisement and pop-ups 📰
• Social Media tracks you 👹

Usage

• Input a URL of an API and a JSON-transformation 🗜
• View posts of different platforms in one convenient feed. 📜

Technologies

• Python3 🐍
• GTK3 📰
• grequests 📲
• jmespath 🗜

Inspiration

• NewPipe - YouTube, PeerTube Client
• Barinsta - Instagram-Client
• Slide - Reddit-Client
• Gemini-, Gopher-Protokoll, Markdown

Authors

• Gero Beckmann - Initiator - Geronymos

License

This project is licensed under the GPT-3 License - see the LICENSE file for details