My News

My News gives users a tool to quickly preview all the news they are interested in. Users choose from a list of possible interests and top news articles are displayed. Also, there's a quick view of the headline news from five major new sources (BBC, google-news, CNN, Bloomberg and CNN). The news articles displays a thumbnail and a description. Users can click on the article for the entire article.

How it works

User inputs their name and what their interests are. Through OAUTH, a request is made to the reddit API (PRAW) to get information on the specified interests. An Ajax call can be made to show the next three most popular items in any category, and so on. The screen the user sees is

Even an unregistered user can take a look at the headline news by choosing a news source in the “Headline News” dropdown.

Screenshots

Homepage

News for specific user based on interest. Click on category for next three items

Headline News using newsapi.org

Testing Coverage

Because the project connects to the reddit api, I need to make a mock database to improve the testing coverage.

Technology Stack

Application: Python, Flask, Jinja, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL
APIs: Reddit, Newsapi
Front-End: HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, JQuery, JavaScript, AJAX

About the Developer

Lori Russell Bard
lori.r.bard@gmail.com
650-867-2067
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