snews

/snews

A Slack App that gives you the top stories from your favorite sites.

Download the app to use with your team on Slack: /snews

Description:

/snews is your one stop shop for all your news needs, all within Slack! By using the “slash command” /snews from within your Slack message bar followed by any of the supported news sources we have, you can view a curated list of the most recent news stories from that source.g

Technologies Used:

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript
• Node.js & Express
• request (for external API request)
• body-parser (for grabbing user’s input)
• ngrok (for development)
• Heroku (for deployment)
• NewsAPI (Link to docs: newsapi.org)
• Slack Custom Integrations/oAuth (Link to docs: api.slack.com)

Things I haven’t gotten around to yet:

• Adding an interactive bot feature
• Cleaning up search functionality
• Adding more news sources