ATLS 5214: Big Data Architecture (Spring 2022)

Project Name: News Buff

Team Name: Headliners

Team Members-

1. Sagar Pathare
2. Akshay Abhyankar
3. Anusha Basavaraja
4. Pratyush Thota
5. Saumya Bansal

Project Link- https://newsbuff.ml/

This repository contains the Backend Code

• Frontend Repository
• Final Presentation
• Demo Video

Project Description

• News Buff is an interactive world map of global news
• News pins are populated on the map depending on the user inputs - year, month, day, query
• Each news article's location is geocoded and shown on the map
• Sentiment analysis is done on each news article to calculate a sentiment score from -1 to 1
• Each location has an average sentiment score and shows its articles
• Share article via Social Media

Installation

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1. To clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/CUBigDataClass/newsbuff-datafetch.git

2. Create a free NYTIMES API key at https://developer.nytimes.com/apis
3. Create a GCP account

• Deploy mongodb instance and get mongodb connection string
• Create a Geocoding API key using https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/get-api-key

4. Host MongoDB and RabbitMQ
5. Save your keys in .env and app.yaml

Requirements

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• To install the requirements, run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Deployment

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• To deploy on local machine:

export FLASK_APP=main.py
flask run

• To deploy on Google App Engine https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/nodejs/create-app

CICD

Connected to GitHub actions, autodeploys on the main branch

License

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Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information