Pandora News is a web application that displays a list of news from different news sources including the sources themselves. Upon page load, it exhibits the top news articles of the day. Clicking a news article to view source or read more, it redirects the user to read it fully from the news source itself. This is achieved by means of an api key News API.
You can view the site at: Pandora
- See various news sources
- Select the ones they prefer
- See the top news articles from that news source
- See the image, description and time the news article was created
- Click on an article and read it fully from the news source
Behaviour | Input | Output |
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Display news sources | On page load | List of various news sources is displayed in a list |
Display tabs with news by category | On Tab link click | Clickable links to open news based on category |
Display articles from a news source | Click a news source | Redirected to a page with articles from the source |
Display the preview of an article headline | On page load | Each article headline displays an image,description and publication date |
To Read more on an entire article | Click an article | Redirected to the news source's site to read the entire article |
- python3.9
- pip
- virtualenv
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In your terminal:
$ git clone https://github.com/Dhyder/News_Api/ $ cd News_API
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Creating the virtual environment
$ python3.9 -m venv --without-pip virtual $ source virtual/bin/env $ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python
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Installing Flask and other Modules
$ python3.9 -m pip install Flask $ python3.9 -m pip install Flask-bootstrap $ python3.9 -m pip install Flask-Script
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Setting up the API Key
To be able to gather article info from the News API you will need an API Key. * Visit https://newsapi.org/ and register for an API key. * In the root directory of the project folder create a file: start.sh * Insert the following info into it: export NEWS_API_KEY='<Your-Api-Key>' python3.9 manage.py server * Insert the API Key you received from News Api where <Your-Api-Key> is.
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To run the application, in your terminal:
$ chmod +x start.sh $ ./start.sh
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To run the tests for the class files:
$ python3.9 manage.py tests
- Python3.9.2
- Flask
- No known bugs at the moment
- For any queries, you can reach out at [desastrecaliente@gmail.com]
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