Carbon Zero: A climate News Aggregator

Project Overview

Carbon Zero is a Rails-based news aggregation project focused on collecting and storing environmental and climate-related news articles from around the world.

Current Status

🚧 Work in Progress 🚧

Features

• Fetches top environmental news articles from multiple countries
• Uses NewsAPI for retrieving articles
• Stores articles in Supabase database
• Supports batch news retrieval across 53 countries

Technical Components

• News Fetching Service: NewsFetcherService
• Background Job: NewsFetchJob
• Rake Task: news_fetch:all_countries

Requirements

• Ruby (3.+)
• Rails
• NewsAPI Key
• Supabase Account

Setup

Environment Variables

Required environment variables:

• NEWS_API_KEY: NewsAPI authentication key
• SUPABASE_URL: Your Supabase project URL
• SUPABASE_API_KEY: Supabase API key

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. Run bundle install
3. Set up environment variables
4. Run database migrations

Running News Fetch

rails news_fetch:all_countries