Nairobi News Today

By Derrick Cheboi

Description

Nairobi News Today is a web app that allows a user to access news from different sources. The user can view the news sources on the homepage and select a particular source to view their news artciles

Application Behaviour

These are the behaviours/features that the application implements for use by a user.

A user should be able to:

• Provide the user with the news sources on the homepage
• Redirect a user to the articles of a particular source on a different path
• Display all the articles of a source on the new path
• Provide a link to the official site of each article on the artciles page
• Allow the user to also view the different categories and be redirected to the articles on clicking
• The web app make use of the News API Org

Screenshots

• Home Page

• News Sources

• Categories

• Articles by Source

• Articles by Category

SetUp / Installation Requirements

Prerequisites

• python3.8
• pip3
• pipenv
• Git and Github

Cloning

• In your terminal:

    $ git clone https://github.com/CheboiDerrick/news-app.git
    $ cd news-app.
  

Running the Application

• Obtain an API key from News Api

• Set up your API key in the start.sh file

• To run the application, in your terminal:

    $ chmod a+x start.sh
    $ ./start.sh
  

• Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:5000 to view the web app

Technologies and Languages Used

• Python -(3.8)
• Flask

License

MIT

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