📰 BBC News Aggregator

A modern news aggregator app built using FastAPI (Python) for the backend and React for the frontend. This application scrapes real-time headlines and summaries from BBC News, delivering them through a clean, responsive interface.

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🚀 Features

• 🔍 Real-time scraping from BBC News
• ⚡ Fast and lightweight API using FastAPI
• 💻 Frontend built with React
• 📄 Clean, card-based UI to display news articles
• 🔁 Refreshes latest news dynamically

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend:

• React
• Axios (or Fetch API)
• CSS

Backend:

• Python
• FastAPI
• Selenium

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📦 Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Poorna-Raj/News-Aggregator.git

🔧 Backend (FastAPI)

1. Move to the directory

cd backend

2. Create a virtual enviroment

python -m venv venv

3. Activate the virtual enviroment

• On Windows:

venv\Scripts\activate

• On MacOs/Linux:

source venv/bin/activate

4. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Run the server

fastapi dev main.py

🔧 Frontend (React)

1. Move to the location

cd "frontend/news-app"

2. Install node modules

npm install

3. Run the server

npm run dev

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📸 Screenshots

🧠 Future Improvements

• Category-based filtering (e.g., Tech, World, Sports)
• User authentication for saving favorite articles
• Dark mode
• Caching and performance optimization

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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👤 Author

Poorna Rajapaksha

Email: poornarajapaksha339@gmail.com