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Inspiration
In Poland, official information about the corovirus is published on many government and public websites. However, there isn't a one place collecting information from these many sources.
What it does
Aggregator automatically collects links from dozens of official Polish websites based on keywords. It allows to view them by source and keywords. It also facilitates sharing on social media. Content is in Polish, but GUI is in Polish and English.
The website can be used to verify fake news, because it collects official information from government sites in one place.
How I built it
- I searched for Polish government websites
- I analyzed how to get content from their HTML code
- I wrote a script that automatically downloads links to news from HTML
- I wrote a search engine based on keywords and sources
Technologies: HTML, CSS (vanilla CSS, BEM methodology), PHP, MySQL
Challenges I ran into
- There is no common API or RSS channels to get content from government websites.
- Polish grammar is complicated. So searching based on keywords is difficult.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
- Collecting many links to Polish government information about coronavirus in one place.
What I learned
- How to get content from HTML code from various websites.
- How to build a simple search engine.
What's next for GovPL News Aggregator
- Add more sources
- Add cron script to periodically update links
- Add searching links by dates
- Make the site available to users
