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source based news in short : Winner @MumbaiHackathon 2018

Source based news network

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There are no personalized , summary based news resources available in the current scenario . We've built a Source based news network where the user has the control over the feed from any given source in any given language .

❝ It's the user who decides what he needs ❞ - cheetAh

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Features

• Subscriptions for a news source
• Bookmark an article
• Summarize an source article or a url
• Browse across ~ 255 preffered source listed here
• Featured Article as per all user reaction ( Also an Add-Ons )
• Night-Mode for better readiblity
• Subscribe to your favorite source using chatbot and read it on your own comfort from the web-app

Briefly As Web-App

Briefly On Messenger

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Add-Ons

• Offline news feed for subscriptions
• Daily Mail ( yet to be integrated with template )
• Add More

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File Structure

ChatBot

• App : Source code for chatbot
• Scrappers : Scrapper for maintaining inital news distribution across web-app and chatbot using firebase . Deployment of this would result in frequent update the news

Web-App

• Repository here

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Installation

• Install dependencies

        $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Edit config.py

• Add 🔥firebase project credentials here 1 2

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Contributing

We're are open to enhancements & bug-fixes 😄 Also do have a look here

Note

• This project was done under 24 hours with minimal pre-preparation
• Extended capabilities of scraper to Indian Languages ( Hindi & Marathi supported as of now)

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Contributors

• @shivam1708
• @nurdtechie98
• @freelancer-98
• @inishchith

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Recognition

This repository / project was a part of @MumbaiHackathon 2018

briefly's Issues

unique feed

generic view feed bug .

• show have option of viewing more(unique) feeds .

Add indian scrapers and cleaners

• reference here

New branch develop

new branch develop

• try newsapi
• compare service and Indian channels on both .

Prettify summary [chat]

• Image and Summary .

Add Subscriptions persistent menu

in reference to this

duplicates in user subsc.

Add tests for indian_scraper_plug

• add tests . in reference to this issue.

Add converstation

• small talks and init from dialogflow ( apiai )

Add interface for adding unlisted news sources

as soon as user adds a news source not present in sources.csv user should be asked for the url for the name that one wanted to add and thus make required changes to sources.csv

Switch to modularity

• readability and src maintenance

Enhancements

• Add unittest
• Modular src

Add unit tests

• Unit tests
• CI

switch to news build

Add news source

Add a news source which is not supported yet .

Guidelines -

• Do test it before adding to the list
• Open issue ticket for inconsistency in scraping