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v0.1 Release: Basic Functionality

31 Mar 15:53
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This is the initial release of the Headliner news scraping service. It utilizes Selenium to harvest headlines and metadata from 10 major news sites to power an API that allows querying of the created database. Functions included in this version:

  • Basic querying of the database on full test of headlines and URLs
  • Return of headlines and metadata including a score calculated by size and position and the start and end date/times of the headlines appearance
  • Harvesting of headlines every 15 minutes