News Scraper

Overview

Web app that lets users scrape news articles from Rock and Ice, view, and leave comments on chosen saved articles. Articles are scraped with Cheerio and stored with Mongoose.

Usage

This application has been deployed to Heroku and can be ran locally.

• Heroku App - Heroku

Page Views

Home Page

Saved Articles Page

Notes Modal

API Page

JSON parsed API call Page

Technology used to build News-Scraper

• HTML
• CSS
• Bootstrap - https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/getting-started/
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com/download-center/
• Handlebars NPM Package - https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-handlebars/
• Body-Parser NPM Package - https://www.npmjs.com/package/body-parser
• Method-override NPM Package - https://www.npmjs.com/package/method-override
• Mongoose NPM Package - https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose
• Mongoose-unique-validator - https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose-unique-validator
• express NPM Package - https://www.npmjs.com/package/express
• cheerio NPM Package - https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio
• morgan NPM Package - https://www.npmjs.com/package/morgan
• router NPM Package - https://www.npmjs.com/package/router
• request NPM Package - https://www.npmjs.com/package/request

Prerequisites

- Node.js - Download the latest version of Node https://nodejs.org/en/

Author

• Thomas Headle - Thomas-Headle