How to build a news aggregator site with Laravel and NewsAPI

A talk on how to build a news aggregator site with Laravel and newsapi.org.

Live application: http://bit.ly/dept-news

GitHub Repo: http://bit.ly/newsapi-code

Tutorial: http://bit.ly/newsapi-article

Transcript

1. Build a News Aggregator site with Laravel
   http://bit.ly/dept-news
   

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2. 01
   Dept - Backend Developers Meeting
   Agenda
   - What will we build?
   - How will we build it?
   - Brief architectural overview
   - Code walk-through
   

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3. 02
   Dept - Backend Developers Meeting
   What will we build?
   We will build a news aggregator website. A website that dispays news from
   multiple news sources.
   http://bit.ly/dept-news
   

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4. 03
   Dept - Backend Developers Meeting
   How will we build it?
   (laravel.com)
   - Laravel v5.8
   (newsapi.org)
   - NewsAPI
   News API is a simple and easy-to-use API that returns JSON metadata for headlines and
   articles live all over the web right now.
   The PHP Framework For Web Artisans.
   

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5. 04
   Dept - Backend Developer Meeting
   GET all news sources
   https://newsapi.org/v2/sources?&apiKey=insert_key_here
   GET :
   {
   
   "status": "ok",
   
   "sources": [
   
   {
   
   "id": "abc-news",
   
   "name": "ABC News",
   
   "description": "Your trusted source for breaking news, analysis, exclusive interviews, headlines, and videos at ABCNews.com.",
   
   "url": "https://abcnews.go.com",
   
   "category": "general",
   
   "language": "en",
   
   "country": "us"
   
   },
   
   {
   
   "id": "abc-news-au",
   
   "name": "ABC News (AU)",
   
   "description": "Australia's most trusted source of local, national and world news. Comprehensive, independent, in-depth analysis, the latest business, sport, weather and more.",
   
   "url": "http://www.abc.net.au/news",
   
   "category": "general",
   
   "language": "en",
   
   "country": "au"
   
   }
   
   }
   

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6. 05
   Dept - Backend Developers Meeting
   GET news from a news source
   {
   
   "status": "ok",
   
   "totalResults": 10,
   
   "articles": [
   
   {
   
   "source": {
   
   "id": "bbc-news",
   
   "name": "BBC News"
   
   },
   
   "author": "BBC News",
   
   "title": "Fake victim of Paris attacks jailed for one year",
   
   "description": "A restaurant manager falsely tried to claim victim's compensation for the 2015 Paris attacks.",
   
   "url": "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47879648",
   
   "urlToImage": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1835/production/_106379160_gettyimages-508599038.jpg",
   
   "publishedAt": "2019-04-10T11:52:53Z",
   
   "content": "Image copyrightAFPImage caption\r\n Mohamadi was rejected by the victim's fund after it decided he was not involved in any of the attacks\r\nThe manager of a
   restaurant caught up in the fatal Paris attacks of 2015 has been sentenced to prison for pretending he wa… [+2356 chars]"
   
   }
   
   }
   https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?sources=bbc-news&apiKey=insert_key_here
   GET :
   

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7. 06
   Dept - Backend Developers Meeting
   Brief architectural overview & Code walk-through
   

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8. 07
   Dept - Backend Developers Meeting
   Questions?
   http://bit.ly/dept-news
   Live app
   Tutorial
   http://bit.ly/newsapi-article
   GitHub
   http://bit.ly/newsapi-code
   

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