Laptop's News Microservice

This is a microservice designed to fetch and serve news articles using FastAPI, Requests, and BeautifulSoup. It provides a simple and efficient way to retrieve news articles about laptops.

Features

• FastAPI: Utilizes the FastAPI framework for creating a fast and modern API with automatic documentation generation.
• Requests: Makes HTTP requests to external news sources to fetch the latest articles.
• Beautiful Soup: Parses and extracts relevant information from the HTML content of news articles.
• Asynchronous: Takes advantage of asynchronous programming for efficient handling of multiple requests.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/LLkaia/news-laptops-ms.git
   cd news-laptops-ms

2. Create a virtual environment (optional but recommended):

   python -m venv venv

3. Activate the virtual environment:

   • On Windows:

     .\venv\Scripts\activate

   • On Unix or MacOS:

     source venv/bin/activate

4. Install the dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

1. Run the FastAPI application:

   python main

2. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000/docs to access the Swagger documentation. Here, you can test the different API endpoints and see example requests and responses.

API Endpoints

• /news/search: Search articles about laptops.

  • Example:

      http://localhost:8000/news/search?find=acer+aspire+7+review
    

• /news/{id}: Show concrete article.

  • Example:

      http://localhost:8000/news/657c1690f253079b6f3ed074