Slacker News Server

Backend for a news aggregator and summarizer

Current features:

• Hosted on render.com for simplicity sake
• Render.com cron job calls cron/stories.py and cron/comments.py a few times a day (these run a single cron and too frequently in order to keep costs down for OpenAI usage)
• Summarizes articles using with OpenAI chat completions and saves them to a postgres database
• Flask server runs from start.py to serve stories out of the database

Front-end here Front-end repo here

Getting Started

Install with install.sh

If you add new dependencies freeze them by running freeze.sh

Run all python files as modules since they use relative imports i.e. python -m cron.stories.

To run production server use gunicorn start:app