fisayoafolayan/news-app

A Laravel app that gathers top news across multiple news sites.

Build a news aggregator site with Laravel and newsapi.org

This is a simple implementation of how to a news aggregator site with Laravel and newsapi.org

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software.

• Git.
• PHP.
• Composer.
• Laravel CLI.

Install

Clone the git repository on your computer

$ git clone https://github.com/fisayoafolayan/news-app.git

You can also download the entire repository as a zip file and unpack in on your computer if you do not have git

After cloning the application, you need to install it's dependencies.

$ cd news-app
$ composer install

Setup

When you are done with installation, copy the .env.example file to .env

$ cp .env.example .env

Generate the application key

$ php artisan key:generate

Set environment keys

Log on to newsapi.org to generate a new api key.

NEWS_API_KEY=insert_key_here
NEWS_API_URL='https://newsapi.org/v2/'
DEFAULT_NEWS_SOURCE='CNN'
DEFAULT_NEWS_SOURCE_ID='cnn'

Run the application

$ php artisan serve

Links

Tutorial

Live Demo