Newsbot

The newsbot featured in my YouTube video.

Prerequisites

Python3, virtualenv en pip installed on your system.

How to run it?

1. Create a virtual env: virtualenv -p python3 newsbot
2. Go to the folder with cd newsbot
3. Activate the virtualenv: source bin/activate
4. Create src folder: mkdir src and cd into new folder with cd src
5. Use git clone https://github.com/webconexus/newsbot.git
6. cd newsbot and use pip install -r requirements.txt
7. Now run your server with python3 ./manage.py runserver
8. Congratz you have your Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Newsbot website running on localhost, port 8000.

Want to see the scraper in action?

1. Delete de SQLite database
2. Migrate the database with python3 ./manage.py migrate
3. Go to the "scraper" folder and run scrapy crawl wikinews
4. Now run your server with python3 ./manage.py runserver