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NewsByCountry
Created by Sami-ul
Oftentimes smaller countries are excluded from the media as other events supercede them in impact. As a result people end up not knowing much about these smaller countries who are going through big changes and issues on their own. To combat this, I created this news application which encourages users to search through many countries to read the news about. This allows users to stay informed. It also attempts to create a summary by scraping the text from these news sites. I aim to publish this site in the future.
Info
- This application allows users to search for news by each country
- Users can also recieve a summary of each article pulled
- Due to the large variety of website designs for news services, it is hard to pull a summary for every single one
- If errors occur in pulling news for a country, try going back and searching for that same country again
- Clicking on a list object leads you to the webpage where the article is
Setup
- Make sure you have the following tools installed
- Python
- NodeJS
- Flutter
- In your command prompt, navigate to the same folder that this readme is located in and type
./setup_packagesand press enter- This bat file will run all the necessary packaging operations for this app, it may take up to 2 minutes
- You only need to do this once
- After that is done, run the command
./run_app.bat- This will run all the components of the server which will be served on localhost
- Then it will automatically run flutter in a chrome
- Once you are done with this simply close the command prompt so the servers can close
Work In Progress
- Enhancing the summary function
- Currently it incorporates incomplete quotations and picks weird portions that it deems as important
- It is also extractive, future plans include making the summary abstractive
