Paperboy

Python Desktop News Application. Data sourced from the external news API – https://newsapi.org. The application ‘Paperboy’ displays news data from three categories: Sports, Business and Technology. The user can save their favourite news stories to the ‘My News’ section. Favourite news articles are stored in a local ‘Sqlite’ database.

Built With

Modules/Middleware:

• Sqlite3,  Tkinter,  Python Imaging Library(PIL),   Webbrowser,   Datetime

Languages:

• Python

Screenshots

Click the following Images to view demos of the site in action:

• Welcome screen - Welcome message is displayed to the user along with instructions on how to use the application.

• Browse News - News is displayed to the user in a scrollable news feed, filtered by category.

• My News - News saved by the user is visible here. View gets updated as items are saved or deleted.

Setting Up

Python 3.7.1

1. Download and install Python 3.7.1 - https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-371/

News API

1. Navigate to newsapi.org and select 'Get API key' - https://newsapi.org/
2. Register to recieve your unique API KEY.

Running the application in your local environment

1. Clone project

   git clone https://github.com/lauraFortune/paperboy.git

2. Open file news_api.py. Nagvigate to line 27. Update the API_KEY variable with the api key you recieved from newsapi.org.

   API_KEY = 'your_api_key'

3. Run app

   python main_gui.py

Acknowledgments

Tutorials

• Codemy.com - Python Tkinter - Adding a Full Screen ScrollBar

Fonts

• Hugo Victor - Paxel
• Markus Schroppel - LLPIXEL