This project was taken down by a DMCA request from Radio-Canada. It is no longer maintained. The API that was used to fetch the data is also no longer available. The radio-canada.ca frontend is now fetching data from a GraphQL API.

RIP Radio-Canada Mini, 2021-2024.

If you'd like to see what the project looked like, you can still see it on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

This was an attempt at making a French version of the CBC Lite website: cbc.ca/lite

Fetching data from the Radio-Canada API at build time, Eleventy creates pages for every news stories on the main Radio-Canada.ca sections.

1. Establish minimal list of lineups to fetch data from ✅
2. Hosted on Github, deployed and served by Vercel ✅
3. Return 10 news stories from the main lineups ✅
4. Minimalist, unintrusive design ✅
5. Trigger build with cron, calling the build hook from Vercel ✅

• Page template - one page for each news story
• Deploy on Netlify: https://radio-canada-lite.netlify.app
• List main lineups
• Each lineup generate a page
• Build site to refresh the data every 30 min: webhook from Vercel is called every 30 min with cron - idea is from Dana Byerly - see this article for details
• Indicate last build time LAST BUILD: {{ buildtime.timestamp | dateToISO }} from Whimsical
• Dark mode / light more, with auto switch and button
• Ignore longforms and atypical documents that are sometimes included in lineups mozilla/nunjucks#676
• Generate a list of every pages/lineups (sitemap)
• Integrate images that are returned by the endpoints: load only if users click
• /about page to explain project: rc-lite.xyz/a-propos
• Correctly format dates to human readable https://11ty.rocks/eleventyjs/dates/
• Fetch two pages to deliver more articles