Articulate

Inspiration:

The inspiration we had for this web application is that we wanted to provide youth, people on the move, or all persons whom are dissuaded from reading large articles of text. Large text are essentially, but they aren't 'sexy' in the way that they are not appealing.

What it does:

Article prompts for a user input of a web url. Our website will take that url, extract the text from that url, and then summarize it for users to see while also printing out the original text.

How we built it:

We used technologies including HTML5/CSS3, Vanilla JavaScript, angular.js, Algorithmia API, and DIFFBOT API in order to build a web application that parses news articles and output the original text and summary.

Challenges we ran into:

API Integration into our application was initially difficult. In addition, two of our team members were completely new to web programming, so the entire hackathon was a learning process for them.

Accomplishments that we're proud of:

We ended up with a completed project that we can share with our friends, family, and the world.

What we learned:

We learned that... perseverance is (major) key. No matter what technical background you have, you can create something beautiful.

What's next for Articulate:

Keep on the lookout for sentiment analysis + emoji integration! Mobile version will be released shortly.

Note: video not 100% up-to-date. Please check out the link below!

Built With

• algorithmia-api
• angular.js
• bootstrap
• css
• diffbot-api
• html