RSS Joust

Sentiment and Volume analysis of major news channels around the world

Very basic setup

Prior to run you need node.js and mongodb installed
This project is set up to run on a https://www.openshift.com/ or on a local environment
Check public/js/config.js
CONFIG.RSS_CHANNELS array contains the direct links for the rss feeds to be parsed
CONFIG.CATCH_STRINGS array contains the words that are randomly choosen on page load
$ npm install
$ bower install
$ node create_channels.js to create the channels in the mongo database according to the RSS feed
$ node parse_entries.js to gather all the titles of the respective feeds (if you run in a openshift server then the cronjob is already setup to run hourly)
$ node server.js