happy-news-retrieval [Illustrative Description]

Retrieve happy news from online sources to promote positivity across the web

Setup

1. create a database in postgres cli

psql postgres
CREATE DATABASE happy_news_retrieval_db;
CREATE USER admin WITH PASSWORD 'admin';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE happy_news_retrieval_db TO admin;

2. run init_db.py

python init_db.py

twitter api documentation

• [search_tweets] (https://docs.tweepy.org/en/stable/api.html#tweepy.API.search_tweets) get tweets in the last week

• [user_timeline] (https://docs.tweepy.org/en/stable/api.html#tweepy.API.user_timeline) get tweets for a particular screen name

flask apis

•  GET /tweets 

  body : json example:

  	{
  		'query'    : "football",
  		'user_id'  : "12345678"

  	}

•  POST /click

body : json example:

  	{
  		'query'    : "football",
  		'tweet_id' : "12A12344",
  		'user_id'  : "12345678"

  	}