Source Hoard

SourceHoard

Inspiration

Built with a desire for users to verify and expand upon sources in news story, SourceHoard takes inspiration from online news aggregators such as feedly, flipboard, and hacker news,

What it does

SourceHoard is a Chrome extension that offers real-time, on-demand searches for new stories. Users highlight text on any website, and SourceHoard displays related news articles based on their selection

How we built it

The back end is based upon an express app code and cheerio search API. The app is hosted on a locally exposed ngrock server running node.js.

Challenges We ran into

Learning Javascript, JSON queries, chrome extension, web scraping, functional programming

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

-Getting the local server to interact with the chrome extension through ngrok -Scraping the web, and aggregating it to a master JSON file

What We learned

-Javascript -JSON -Chrome Extension -Webscraping

What's next for sourceHoard

Being able to collect news articles with better precision with the JSON parser, adding the ability for the user to customize their preferred news outlets.