New Aggregator Using Django

This project is a news aggregator developed using Django, which scrapes news headlines from a specified source and displays them on a web page.

Home Page

News

Installation

1. Clone the repository and navigate into the project directory:

git clone https://github.com/VaishnaviSingh1/New-Aggregator-Using-Django.git
cd New-Aggregator-Using-Django

2. Create a virtual environment and activate it:

python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate  # On Windows use `env\Scripts\activate`

3. Install dependencies using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the Application

1. Make migrations and migrate to set up the database:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

2. Start the development server:

python manage.py runserver
Visit http://localhost:8000/ in your web browser to view the application.

Usage

1. Scraping News

To scrape news headlines, use the /scrape/ endpoint, where is the name of the source to scrape from.

2. Viewing News

Navigate to /news/ to view the scraped news headlines.

Technologies Used

1. Python

2. Django

3. BeautifulSoup (for web scraping)

4. Requests (for making HTTP requests)