Inspiration
I wanted to make a bot that would give discord users quick access to trending news on different topic inside the discord chat box. Additionally, I wanted to import reddit's popular "tl;dr bot" function on to discord.
What it does
So far the the bot has two command;
- News : Provides the user with the (random) link to the trending article on the requested topic.
- tldr : Gives a summary of the an article using AI and NLP.
How we built it
The bot was built with Python, News-API and SMMRY-API.
Challenges we ran into
Since this is my second hackathon and first solo hackathon, the most challenging part was to finishing the project in time. Also, due to the time constraint some of the more ambitious features did not make to the final product.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I was able to implement the some of the basic features before deadline.
What we learned
I learned how to work with various APIs and implement them in a discord bot.
What's next for Newscord
In the future, I intend to implement more AI and ML features such as Sentiment Analysis of a news article using Google NLP AI, Bias Detection, Fake News Detection and many more.
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