NEWS-SOURCES

This is a web app that displays a list of all news sources. Built with flask framework and uses a News API

Built by Newton Bii

Description

This is an app that users can view various international news sources and select one. They can also read all the articles from a particular news source they select.

User Specification

Landing page has a list of all the news sources available and a brief description of each source.
The news sources are listed alphabetically.
Users are able to click on each news source and get alistof all the articles of that particular news source.
A user can read that particular news item from the source directly.

SetUp / Installation Requirements

Launch the app directly from News Room.

Source Code and development.

Clone NEWS-SOURCES.
Ensure you have python installed.
Ensure you have an API key from NEWS API to be able to make requests.
In the cloned project, inside the root directory, create a directory and name it virtual.
From the terminal run python3.6 -m venv virtual to create a virtual environment.
Switch to the virtual environment by entering source virtual/bin/activate from the terminal.
Run python manage.py server and open localhost:5000 in your browser to view the app.
Now you can play around with the code and see the changes in the browser.

Technologies Used

Python3.6
Flask
News API

NewtonBii/news-sources