Icey-Python / News_Scrapper

NEWS FEED API README

This is a simple Flask API that serves as a proxy for fetching and serving images and provides a news feed.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Routes
• Usage
• License - MIT

Introduction

API_urls:

• https://news-feed-ke.vercel.app/
• https://news-feed-ke.onrender.com/

This Flask API is designed to provide two main functionalities:

1. Image Proxy: It allows you to proxy and serve images from external URLs.
2. News Feed: It serves news feed data from a JSON file.

Routes

/

• Description: Returns a simple "Hello" message.
• Method: GET

/proxy-image

• Description: Proxy for fetching and serving images from a given URL.
• Method: GET
• Query Parameters:
  • url (required): The URL of the image to proxy.

/news

• Description: Returns news feed data from a JSON file.
• Method: GET

Usage

You can use this API as follows:

Proxy an Image:

To proxy an image, make a GET request to the /proxy-image route with the url query parameter set to the URL of the image you want to fetch and serve.

Example:

• GET https://news-feed-ke.vercel.app/proxy-image?url=https://example.com/image.jpg or https://news-feed-ke.onrender.com/proxy-image?url=https://example.com/image.jpg

Fetch News Feed

To fetch for a news feed, make a GET request to the /news route

Example

• GET https://news-feed-ke.vercel.app/news or https://news-feed-ke.onrender.com/news

• Visit this website https://news-and-weather.vercel.app/

Dependencies

• Flask: Web framework for creating the API.
• Flask-CORS: Extension for handling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).
• Requests: Library for making HTTP requests.
• JSON: Library for parsing JSON data.