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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

• 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