Readme.md

Flask Backend for News Summarizer

This is the backend of the News Summarizer Chrome Extension, built using Flask. The backend serves a REST API to process and summarize news content from URLs.

Features

• Fetches and processes HTML or JSON from the given URL.
• Generates summaries using NLP techniques.
• Removes irrelevant content, such as hashtags, for concise summaries.
• Prioritizes sentences relevant to the news title.

Requirements

Before you begin, ensure you have the following installed on your machine:

• Python 3.8 or above
• pip (Python package manager)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone <repository-url>
   cd <repository-directory>

2. Create a virtual environment:

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

3. Install the dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set up environment variables (if needed):

   Create a .env file in the project root and add variables like FLASK_APP and FLASK_ENV.

Running the Application

1. Start the Flask development server:

   flask run

2. The server will be available at http://127.0.0.1:5000.

API Endpoints

POST /summarize

Summarizes the content of a given URL.

Request Body:

{
  "url": "https://example.com/news-article"
}

Response:

{
  "summary": {
         "summary:"Summarized content here..."
   }
}

License

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