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