The Daily Dose News App

The Daily Dose News App is a Flask application that fetches news articles from an API, summarizes them using the OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo model, and sends out a daily email digest at 7 AM CST.

Features

• Fetches news articles using the NewsData API
• Summarizes news articles with OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo model
• Schedules and sends a daily email digest with Mailchimp

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/daily_dose_news_app.git

2. Change into the project directory:

cd daily_dose_news_app

3. Create a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv

4. Activate the virtual environment:

• On Linux/macOS:

source venv/bin/activate

• On Windows:

venv\Scripts\activate

5. Install the required packages:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

1. Create a .env file in the project root directory and set the following environment variables:

NEWS_API_KEY=<your_newsdata_api_key>
OPENAI_API_KEY=<your_openai_api_key>
MAILCHIMP_API_KEY=<your_mailchimp_api_key>
MAILCHIMP_LIST_ID=<your_mailchimp_list_id>

Replace <your_*_api_key> with the respective API keys.

2. Make sure the email_template/index.html file is in place with the correct format.

Usage

1. Run the Flask application:

python app.py

2. Visit the following routes in your web browser or with a tool like curl:

• http://localhost:3000/: The application's homepage
• http://localhost:3000/fetch_news: Fetches news articles and returns them in JSON format
• http://localhost:3000/fetch_summarized_news: Fetches summarized news articles and displays them in an HTML list

The application will automatically send out the daily email digest at 7 AM CST.

Dependencies

• Flask
• requests
• openai
• mailchimp3
• python-dotenv
• re
• datetime
• pytz
• dateutil
• APScheduler

License

This project is released under the MIT License.