TechLurker is an app which gives up to date information on all of the latest news in the tech industry. We use a web crawler to get the news from various tech sites and return it to our users in an interesting and easy to understand manner. Choose from one of our built in starting points or input your own favorite site and see what interesting information gets returned to you.
| Route | Route Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| / | home | The home page |
| /results | results | Display results from web scrape |
| /results/{id:\d+} | saved_results | Display historical data from prior scrapes |
| /about | about | Information on dev team |
This APP requires the NLTK data file and needs to be downloaded to your machine. Follow the NLTK instructions from NLTK Data Download
If you do not have an account with Plotly, sign up Here and then follow their configuration instructions Here
Clone this repository to your local machine.
$ git clone https://github.com/han8909227/TechLurker.git
Once downloaded, cd into the TechLurker directory.
$ cd Techlurker
Begin a new virtual environment with Python 3 and activate it.
TechLurker $ python3 -m venv ENV
TechLurker $ source ENV/bin/activate
pip install this package as well as the testing set of extras into your virtual enviroment.
(ENV) TechLurker $ pip install -e .[testing]
Create a Postgress datatbase for use with this application. Export an environment variable pointing to the location of your data configuration.
(ENV) TechLurker $ createdb your_db_name_here
(ENV) TechLurker $ export DATABASE_URL='postgress://localhost:5432/your_db_name_here'
(ENV) TechLurker $ initdb development.ini
Once the package is installed and the database is created, serve the application using the pserve command.
(ENV) TechLurker $ pserve development.ini
If you have the testing extras installed, testing is simple. If you're in the same directory as setup.py type the following: $ py.test TechLurker
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