Leafthru
A personalized news aggregator.
Leafthru brings together your favorite news through your Twitter feed, using Watson API to analyze text on webpages.
How it works:
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Upon signing up, users can input their Twitter handle.
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When they access the feed page, a GET request is made to
/feeds/twitter. -
Twitter feed: Getting articles from an user's Twitter timeline is a two-step process.
- First, the Twitter client gets posts from user's timeline. Loop through the posts and retain the URLs, excluding those containing media (e.g. Pinterest, YouTube).
# lib/twitter.rb
def get_timeline(username, num_results)
end- The article links are fed through the Watson API (credentials) analyze endpoint to parse out the article's title and summary. These requests are made in parallel using threads.
- Articles are cached for 2 hours
- If the user authenticates with Pocket, bookmarking an article also saves the item to their Pocket account. (Developer docs).
Future features:
- Use a rake task to collect articles from Twitter at intervals.