Hacknight Project - Headlines node module 🌍
Quick node module for making it easier to grab headlines from news sites
Question posed: how can we make it painless to access the headlines of news sites from around the world
- A node module to do the scraping of grabbing the world's headlines
- Uses scraperJS to do all the scraping for you
Goal: to make it easy to grab the headlines you want
var headline = require('headline-news');
headline.torstar(); // Rob Ford laments lack of hummus (Toronto Star)
headline.cbc(); // Rob Ford laments lack of hummus (CBC News)
Proof of concept (node-repl)
TODO
- Add local and world objects so you specify whether you want local news or global news
- Reason: every local site publishes the same general world article, the local story headline is much more interesting
- Build out US news site scrapers
- Can break US news sites into states
- Will have the feature of grabbing all country headlines with
headline.canada(); - Public to npm
- Clean up duplicate code
- Add lots more sites in Europe/Asia/Africa
- Build demo page to show power of headlines
- Hover over map to get different headlines