kathrynherod / week-18_web-scraping

This web scraping app pulls eyewitness articles from The Guardian

Web-Scraping

• Click here to run this app in your browser

• Original Scraped Site Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/eyewitness

Features

This web scraping app accomplishes the following:

• Whenever a user visits the site, the app scrapes stories from The Guardian and displays them for the user. Each scraped article is saved to the application database. The app scrapes and displays the following information for each article:

  • Headline - the title of the article

  • Summary - a short summary of the article

  • URL - the url to the original article

  • Date - the date the original article was published

  • Photo - the photo attached to the original article

  • Here's a quick demo

  

• Users are also able to leave comments on the articles displayed and revisit them later. The comments are saved to the database, as well, and associated with their articles. Stored comments are visible to every user.

  • Here's a quick demo

  

• If the user decides to delete all of the notes and articles and start fresh, all of the data will be deleted from the database.

  • Here's a quick demo