NYT Sports Scraper

This is a Node.js application that utilizes Cheerio and a MongoDB back-end to scrape and save NYT Sports articles to a Bootstrap UI.

NYT Sports Scraper

Built With

• Node.js - Javascript runtime network

• Heroku - For application deployment

• NPM - Dependency Management

• Bootstrap - CSS Framework for Styling

• Express.js - Web framework for Node.js

• MongoDB - Database Used for Development

• Axios - 'Scraping' method; Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

• Travis CI - Test and deploy code

Author

• Edward Gartland - LinkedIn

Operation

1. Clone this repository to your local system.

2. Open terminal.

3. Navigate to the appropriate folder, and install all required packages ('mongojs', 'express', 'express-handlebars', 'body-parser', 'express-handlebars', 'cheerio', 'mongoose', 'morgan', 'axios', and 'handlebars').

4. Run the command npm i to install node modules.

5. Then run node server.js, open your web browser, and navigate to your localhost.

6. Or simply navigate to the deployed application on Heroku at https://mongodbnyt.herokuapp.com/.

Functionality

Scrape for Most Recent Articles

View Saved Articles

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