MongoDB/Mongoose NYT web-scraper

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https://mongo-scraper-cheerio.herokuapp.com/

Functionality

On the backend, the app uses express to serve routes and mongoose to interact with a MongoDB database.

On the frontend, the app uses handlebars for templating each article and materialize as a styling framework. The app also uses jQuery and AJAX to help with making post requests.

And for webscraping, the app uses the request and cheerio node packages. All webscrapping code can be found in the scrape.js file.

Technologies used:

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• Handlebars.js
• Javascript/ES6
• jQuery
• AJAX/JSON
• NPM modules:
  • Cheerio
  • Request-Promise
• Bootstrap 3
• CSS3 (including css animations and transitions)
• HTML5
• Canvas BG

This is an app that uses Cheerio to scrape the New York Times US section and pull the most recent top articles: