nilshah98 / nounalyzer

A basic app to visualise RSS feed

Nounalyzer

A basic app to visualise RSS feed

Folder and Files structure

• /frontend - Used for taking inputs and D3 visualizations.
• /backend - Used for fetching data from RSS feeds, to avoid CORS error, and also to do analyze the RSS data to visualize

Frontend

• Taking input and making POST requests to http://localhost:5000/rss, so make sure the /backend runs at port 5000
• Additionally using Bootstrap for basic styling, jQuery to make easier AJAX requests, and D3 to visualize data, so creating a mashup of various RIA [Rich Internet Applications]

Backend

• A simple flask server, which exposes /rss route and provides CORS support through flask-cors package
• Also should be running on port 5000 as the requests are made on that
• Additionally using feedparser to get RSS feed data, a basic tutorial for feedparser can be found here
• Using virtual env here, and the dependencies for the project can hence be found at requirements.txt

Steps to run

Frontend

• Serve /frontend through some extension or package such as live-server
• Note: Make sure to serve it on anyother port except 5000 since API calls are made there

Backend

• Serve /backend in another terminal, either by installing dependencies using venv or by installing globally
• Make sure it is served on port 5000 if not, make appropriate changes at - /frontend/script.js