You can contact me here: waliul.sami.ahmed@gmail.com

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

The build folder in flutter has been gitignored, it should automatically recreate it when building with the flutter command, create an issue if not
Make sure you have the following tools installed
- Python
- Poetry
- NodeJS
- Flutter
In your command prompt, navigate to the same folder that this readme is located in and type ./setup_packages and 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

Setup without scripts

This is slower than the bat files as the bat files run the commands asynchronously
To setup without scripts you will first need to update packages
- To do this navigate to each folder in server
- Enter these commands in terminal
  - cd server
  - cd newsapi
  - npm install
  - cd..
  - cd summarizationapi
  - poetry install
- Now you have updated packages for poetry and npm
- We will now update flutter packages
  - Navigate to webapp
  - Assuming you are in summarizationapi:
  - cd..
  - cd..
  - cd webapp
  - cd newsapp
  - flutter pub get
Now lets run the app
- Navigate to each folder in server to start the backend
  - I have not hosted the api anywhere yet so thats why we need to do this
  - cd server
  - cd newsapi
  - node .
  - In a separate terminal go to summarizationapi
  - cd server
  - cd summarizationapi
  - poetry run python main.py
    - If this failed then make sure you replace python with py or python3 or whatever you have python saved as
- Now we can start the frontend
  - Use a separate terminal(separate terminal is only needed for this manual startup)
  - Navigate to webapp
  - Assuming you are in summarizationapi
  - cd..
  - cd..
  - cd webapp
  - cd newsapp
  - flutter run -d Chrome --release
- Now the app will start

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

GitHub

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