Step 1: Set Up Your Environment
- Install Flask and Requests:bashCopy code
pip install Flask requests - Sign Up for News API:
- Go to News API and sign up to get your API key.
Step 2: Create Your Flask App
Create a file named app.py:
pythonCopy codefrom flask import Flask, render_template, request
import requests
app = Flask(__name__)
API_KEY = 'YOUR_NEWS_API_KEY' # Replace with your News API key
@app.route('/')
def index():
query = request.args.get('query', '')
articles = []
if query:
url = f'https://newsapi.org/v2/everything?q={query}&apiKey={API_KEY}'
response = requests.get(url)
data = response.json()
articles = data.get('articles', [])
return render_template('index.html', articles=articles, query=query)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(debug=True)
Step 3: Create the HTML Template
Create a folder named templates in the same directory as app.py, and inside that folder, create a file named index.html:
htmlCopy code<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>News Aggregator</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>News Aggregator</h1>
<form method="get">
<input type="text" name="query" placeholder="Search news..." value="{{ query }}">
<button type="submit">Search</button>
</form>
<ul>
{% for article in articles %}
<li>
<a href="{{ article.url }}" target="_blank">{{ article.title }}</a>
<p>{{ article.description }}</p>
</li>
{% else %}
<li>No articles found.</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Step 4: Run Your Application
To run your application, execute the following command in your terminal:
bashCopy codepython app.py
Step 5: Access Your News Aggregator
Open your web browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:5000/. You can enter a search query to fetch news articles related to that query.