NewsFlash

Its a news website that displays latest popular news and offers a user the ability to search news based on categories eg bitcoin, sports etc or based on your news source eg cnn, abc etc

By Daniel Muruthi

Description

Its a Flask web application that enables users to view and search for news from any media group. It displays latest popular news and offers a user the ability to search news based on categories eg bitcoin, sports etc.

News Sources

Results

results for espn/ESPN

Setup/Installation Requirements

• Visual Studio Code
• Linux Terminal
• Github
• Heroku
• Flask virtual Environment
• NewsApi

Known Bugs

None observed so far

Limitations

There is a number of requests that you cannot go beyond while uding the NewsApi as it eventually leads to an error 429 and 503 and as such the link may not work for 24 hours

Technologies Used

This project has been written using html, css, python languages and flask frameworks

installations

Create a virtual environment and proceed to add the dependancies

• python3 -m venv --without-pip virtual
• curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python
• source virtual/bin/activate
• pip install flask
• pip install flask-bootstrap
• pip install flask-script
• python3 -m pip install gunicorn
• install Heroku cli

Support and contact details

email: [email protected]

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) [2021] [Daniel Muruthi]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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