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+/**
+ * fetches the full news file and generates a json file with the first entry
+ * and another with the full archive
+ */
+
+const https = require("https");
+const fs = require("fs");
+
+const source = "https://themanaworld.github.io/tmwa-server-data/news.json";
+
+console.info("Acquiring news from static site...");
+
+https.get(source, res => {
+	let file = "";
+
+	res.on("data", chunk => file += chunk);
+
+	res.on("end", () => {
+		const news = JSON.parse(file);
+		const first = [];
+
+		console.info(`Received ${news.length} news entries; splitting...`);
+
+		if (news.length > 0) {
+			first.push(news[0]);
+
+			let data = new Uint8Array(Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(first)));
+			fs.writeFileSync("src/assets/news.json", data, {
+				encoding: "utf-8",
+				flag: "w+",
+			});
+
+			data = new Uint8Array(Buffer.from(file));
+			fs.writeFileSync("src/assets/news-full.json", data, {
+				encoding: "utf-8",
+				flag: "w+",
+			});
+		} else {
+			console.info("Creating dummy news files...");
+
+			let data = new Uint8Array(Buffer.from("[]"));
+			fs.writeFileSync("src/assets/news.json", data, {
+				encoding: "utf-8",
+				flag: "w+",
+			});
+
+			fs.writeFileSync("src/assets/news-full.json", data, {
+				encoding: "utf-8",
+				flag: "w+",
+			});
+		}
+
+		console.info("Success.");
+	});
+
+});