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