News Aggregator

This is a backend web app for a web content aggregator. It retrieves headlines from various news websites and stores them in a database. The web app is built using Flask, MySQL, Python, Bootstrap, HTML/CSS, BeautifulSoup, requests, Jinja2, and deployed to an AWS EC2 instance.

Features

• Retrieves headlines from the following news websites:
  • The New York Times
  • Fox News
  • The Guardian
  • CNBC
  • NDTV
  • Sky Sports Football News
  • Lansing State Journal
  • The Detroit News
• Stores the headlines in a MySQL database.
• Provides a web application interface to display the aggregated headlines.

Technologies

• Flask - Backend server
• MySQL - Database
• AWS - Hosting service
• Beautiful Soup - Web scraping and parsing HTML/XML
• requests - Making HTTP requests
• Bootstrap - Framework for responsive web design
• HTML/CSS - Markup and styling languages for web development
• Jinja2 - Templating engine

Contact

For any inquiries or feedback, please contact abdulr36@msu.edu