melc / news

News Reporting Tool

News Reporting Tool app is a micro data analysis app for news feed with python flask and postgresql deploying on ubuntu 16.04 LTS hosted on vagrant virtual machine (VM)

Technical Features

include:

• Python 3.5
• Flask Framework
• Postgresql
• Virtualbox and Vagrant

Functional Features

1. What are the most popular three articles of all time?
2. Who are the most popular article authors of all time?
3. On which days did more than 1% of requests lead to errors?

Steps of Launching News Reporting Tool

1. Install Virtualbox

• Download virtual box from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_1
• Follow the instructions to setup virtualbox

2. Install Git

• Download git from https://git-scm.com/downloads
• Follow the instructions to set up git bash

3. Install Vagrant

• Download the old version of vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads if the current version is non-compatible with your OS
• Follow the instructions to setup vagrant.

4. Download Datafile, Vagrantfile, and Source Codes

• Download vagrantfile from https://github.com/udacity/fullstack-nanodegree-vm

• Download newsdata.zip from https://d17h27t6h515a5.cloudfront.net/topher/2016/August/57b5f748_newsdata/newsdata.zip

• Git clone from https://github.com/melc/news

  cd fullstack-nanodegree-vm/vagrant
  mkdir news
  cd news
  git clone https://github.com/melc/news
  

• Unzip newsdata.zip and move newsdata.sql to news folder

5. Start the Virtual Machine

• Install ubuntu 16.04 LTS on VM

  cd vagrant/
  vagrant up
  

• Login to installed ubuntu VM

  vagrant ssh (note: $ will be changed to vagrant@vagrant:~$)

6. Launch the Application

• Create database news

  cd vagrant/news
  psql -d news -f newsdata.sql
  

• Launch application.py

  python3.5 application.py

• Open browser and type in localhost:8000