Hacknight Project - Headlines node module 🌍

Quick node module for making it easier to grab headlines from news sites

Question posed: how can we make it painless to access the headlines of news sites from around the world

• A node module to do the scraping of grabbing the world's headlines
• Uses scraperJS to do all the scraping for you

Goal: to make it easy to grab the headlines you want

var headline = require('headline-news');	
headline.torstar(); // Rob Ford laments lack of hummus (Toronto Star)
headline.cbc(); // Rob Ford laments lack of hummus (CBC News)

Proof of concept (node-repl)

TODO

• Add local and world objects so you specify whether you want local news or global news
  • Reason: every local site publishes the same general world article, the local story headline is much more interesting
• Build out US news site scrapers
  • Can break US news sites into states
• Will have the feature of grabbing all country headlines with headline.canada();
• Public to npm
• Clean up duplicate code
• Add lots more sites in Europe/Asia/Africa
• Build demo page to show power of headlines
  • Hover over map to get different headlines