DEPRECATED

This project is no longer maintained; please consider using https://github.com/ubergonmx/newsmead-api instead.

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NewsMead API

A news recommender API built with Flask/Python for the NewsMead mobile app.

Tech Stack

• Python
• Flask
• Azure Services: Web App

API Endpoints

API URL: https://newsmead.azurewebsites.net/

List of GET endpoints:

• /feed - returns articles scraped from Google News
• /top - returns top headline articles from News API
• /search?q=[query] - returns articles searched with the query and scraped from Google News
• /parse?url=[url] - returns scraped content of the article from the given url

How to run

Note: Must have Python version 3.9 for recommenders package.

1. Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Go to /flask directory

cd flask

3. Run Flask

flask run
# or
python -m flask run