News-API

Developed by:

Mwikali Kyalo

Hosted on heroku: https://n.herokuapp.com/

Description

The Bulletin is an application that consumes the News API to provide users with a means of viewing news from around the world as broadcast by various sources. It is built using the Python Flask framework.

BDD

The user is able to:

• See various news sources on the homepage of the application.
• Select a news source on click and see all news articles from the selected news source in the application.
• See the image, description and the time a news article was created.
• Click on an article and read the full article on the source website.

Installation Requirements

• Python3.8
• Flask 2.0.2
• pip

Cloning

• Run $ git clone https://github.com/mwikalikyalo/news-API on your terminal

Running the Application

After cloning, in the terminal:

• $ cd news-API
• $ python3 -m venv virtual (to create a virtual environment)
• $ source virtual/bin/activate (to activate virtual environment)
• $ pip install flask
• $ pip install Flask-Bootstrap
• $ pip install flask-script
• $ ./start.sh to execute

Running unit tests

• $ python3.8 manage.py test

Bugs

No known bugs. Pull requests encouraged to improve the app.

Technologies used

• Python3.8
• Flask 2.0.2
• Bootstrap v5
• gunicorn

Contacts

You can reach me through:

• Email: winniemwikali07@gmail.com or

License

• MIT License:
• Copyright (c) [2022] Winifred Mwikali Kyalo