Grandpas Read-N-Scraper

Description

Welcome fellow coders and viewers! Welcome to Grandpas Read-N-Scraper. Browsing news-websites can be annoying, everything takes long to find QUALITY articles, and every news website seems to be a haven for onscreen ads and click-bait. Not anymore! Hence our News app!

Instructions

This app is powered by the New York Times SO YOU NEED TO HAVE A NEW YORK TIMES ACCOUNT to read the artcles. Once you have a NYT account or if you already have one you can go straight to browsing the news. When you open the app you can choose between two options:

• "Scrape New Articles" - to randomly fetch articles from New York Times and links you to the article you slect from the article fetch pool
• "Clear Articles" - to clear all articles from the article fecth pool

ALSO YOU CAN SAVE ANY ARTICLE YOU WANT in our header navigation and you can add comments or delete an articl! Finally you can return home and restart everything or resume what you were doing! Enjoy!

Languages used:

• ECMAScript 6
• CSS
• HTML
• JQuery

Libraries used:

• Bootsrap

Middleware used:

• Express
• Express-Handle Bars
• Mongoose
• Cheerio
• Axios
• Body Parsers
• Request
• Node

Upcoming changes/goals:

• Add more graphics/animations
• Better header design
• Logo work in progress
• Add in social-media intergration for sharing articles
• Find a way to make each article saved unique to the user without having to make a sign-in/sign-up user mechanisim
• Find a way to create catagories in version II so a user can scrape random articles relavent to the catagory selected

Link to the Grandpas Read-N-Scraper project