NYT Tech Scraper

Preview current Technology articles from New York Times. Save selected article details and URL in Mongo database

Mongo Scraper pulls current articles New York Times Technology section. User can choose to save an article's headline, summary, URL, and date to MongoDB. From the "Saved" page, user can leave notes about each article or delete saved articles.

Deployment

Deployed to Heroku

Usage

New Articles Page

• Browse latest articles.
• Click "Save" button to add to Saved Articles List.
• Saved articles will be indicated with green "Saved" button

Saved Articles Page

• Delete All - Delete all saved articles
• Delete - Delete containing article
• Edit - Edit notes for containing article
• Save - Save notes after editing

Development setup

Project uses node server environment. If you haven't already, install Node.js

Install dependencies:
At command line in project directory run: npm i

Test on local server:
At command line in project directory run: node server.js
Open browser and navigate to localhost:3000

Technologies Used

• MongoDB - Open-source NoSQL database
• Mongoose - MongoDB object modeling tool for Node
• Node.js - JavaScript server environment
• Express - Server framework for Node
• Cheerio - HTML parsing and API for traversing/manipulating the resulting data structure
• Axios - HTTP client for Node

Author

Adam Openbrier • Portfolio
• GitHub