README.md

MINIM

A web-crawling news aggregation engine using Python and Beautiful Soup, and a Flask application that spits out a slightly too large static frontend from the crawled data.

Live and refreshed hourly at https://minim.jedd.pw

WHAT words are most common?

WHICH articles do they mainly appear in?!

HOW many of the articles are they in?!?!

WHY is the BBC mostly writing "Mr"?!?!?!

Pulls from:

• BBC NEWS UK (http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=uk)
• BBC NEWS US (http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=us)
• VICE (http://vice.com/rss)
• VOX (http://vox.com/rss/index.xml)
• YOUR-FAVE-ONLINE-TEXT-OUTLET (http://www.asourceyouwroteaniftycrawlingscriptforandsubmittedapullrequestwith.heckyes)

To crawl for wordz (this will vary wildly depending on your environment)

• $git clone https://github.com/Jeddf/Minim.git
• $cd Minim/minimCrawler
• $pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• $python3 crawl.py --host --user --password --db

...and build index.html

• $cd ..
• $pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• $python3 Minim.py --host --user --password --db