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GNews Scraping API

Overview

The GNews Scraping API is a Node.js server-side application designed to scrape news articles from Google News. It utilizes the Axios library for making HTTP requests, Cheerio for web scraping, and Express for creating a RESTful API. The API provides endpoints for searching news based on a query term and retrieving news from specific topics such as health, sports, entertainment, business, science, technology, world, and India.

Usage

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/vaxad/GnewsScraper.git

2. Install dependencies:

   cd GnewsScraper-main
   npm install

3. Start the server:

   node index.js

   The server will run at http://localhost:4000/.

Endpoints

1. Health Check

• Endpoint: /
• Method: GET
• Description: Check if the server is live.

2. Search News

• Endpoint: /gnews/search/:term

• Method: GET

• Description: Get news articles based on the specified search term.

  Example: /gnews/search/technology

3. Get News by Topic

• Endpoint: /gnews/topic/:term

• Method: GET

• Description: Get news articles from specific topics (health, sports, entertainment, business, science, technology, world, India).

  Example: /gnews/topic/health

Deployment

The API is deployed on gNewsApi. You can use this deployed instance to fetch news data in your applications.

Frontend

A sample frontend application using this API is available at NewsDekho.

Technologies Used

• Node.js
• Express.js
• Axios
• Cheerio

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to the contributors of Axios, Cheerio, and Express for creating and maintaining these amazing libraries.
• Special thanks to Google News for providing a platform to access news content.