Flask News App

A web application is built using Python framework (Flask) and NEWS API. The app displays information about news articles from popular sources, top headlines around the world, provides new categories and the various sources available.

Requirements

The user can perform the following functions:

• See various news sources on the homepage of the application
• Select a news source 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 / Setup instruction

The application requires the following installations to operate:

• pip
• gunicorn
• flask

Technologies Used

• python 3.9.6

Project Setup Instructions

1. Git clone the repository

https://github.com/steve-njuguna-k/Flask-News-App.git

2. cd into Flask-News-App

cd Flask-News-App

3. create a virtual env

py -m venv env

4. activate env

env\scripts\activate

5. Open CMD & Install Dependancies

pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Execute main.py

main.py

Known Bugs

• There are no known bugs currently but pull requests are allowed incase you spot a bug

Contact Information

If you have any question or contributions, please find me on LinkedIn

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