📰 Content Aggregator

A Django-based web application that collects and displays articles from multiple sources. This project demonstrates web scraping, data aggregation, and clean presentation in a single-page web app.

🌟 Features

• Scrapes the latest articles from selected programming and tech news sites.
• Uses BeautifulSoup to parse HTML and extract titles and URLs.
• Displays all results on a single, clean dashboard.
• Built with Django for powerful backend capabilities and routing.
• Ready for deployment on platforms like Heroku.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Backend: Django, Python
• Scraping: BeautifulSoup, Requests
• Frontend: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

🧪 How It Works

1. Each scraper module targets a specific website.
2. Scraping functions retrieve and parse content using BeautifulSoup.
3. The data is rendered via Django views into dynamic templates.
4. The home page shows a list of recent articles from all sources.

🔧 Setup Instructions

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/blakebrandon-hub/Content-Aggregator.git
cd Content-Aggregator

Create and activate a virtual environment

Mac: python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  
Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run migrations

python manage.py migrate

Start the development server

python manage.py runserver

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.