Go News API

A robust and scalable news aggregation API built with Go, leveraging multiple news sources to provide trending topics, top headlines, and more.

News && TODO

Latest Changes

• chore: Add support for building the application for ARM64 architecture. PR #20 by @tadeasf.
• 📝 Add CHANGELOG.md to document project changes. PR #18 by @tadeasf.
• 🔧 (automerge.yml): update automerge workflow to trigger on more events and improve merge commit message. PR #16 by @tadeasf.

Security Fixes

• 🔧 (workflows): add GitHub Actions workflows for build, release, and changelog generation. PR #17 by @tadeasf.

Features

• ✨ (endpoints): add endpoint to fetch news by keyword with pagination support. PR #19 by @tadeasf.

Fixes

• Fix-todo-to-issue-again. PR #9 by @tadeasf.
• 🔧 (todo-to-issue.yml): remove language-specific configuration for Go. PR #8 by @tadeasf.
• 🔧 (todo-to-issue.yml): fix escape sequences in language block comment patterns. PR #7 by @tadeasf.
• 🔧 (latest-changes.yml): ensure "Latest Changes" section exists in README. PR #6 by @tadeasf.

TODO

• Add endpoints for fetching news by keyword
• Add endpoints for fetching news by search query
• Add endpoints for fetching news by trending categories
• Implement scheduling via background cronjob for continuous article pulling
• Implement sentiment analysis, topics, and keywords extraction

Features

• Fetch top headlines from multiple news sources (NewsAPI and GNews)
• Get news articles for trending topics
• Fetch trending categories from Exploding Topics
• Database integration with PostgreSQL for caching and data persistence
• API request limiting to comply with external API usage restrictions
• Swagger documentation for easy API exploration

Endpoints

1. GET /api/v1/health: Health check endpoint
2. GET /api/v1/test-postgresql: Test PostgreSQL connection
3. POST /api/v1/init-db: Initialize database tables
4. GET /api/v1/migrate: Run database migrations
5. GET /api/v1/top-headlines: Get top headlines from NewsAPI or GNews
6. GET /api/v1/trending-topics: Get news articles for trending topics
7. GET /api/v1/fetch-trending-categories: Fetch top 10 trending categories

For detailed API documentation, visit the Swagger UI at /docs/index.html when running the server.

How to develop

1. Clone the repository

2. Install dependencies: go mod download

3. Create a .env file in the root directory with the following variables:

   PG_HOST=your_postgres_host
   PG_USER=your_postgres_user
   PG_PASSWORD=your_postgres_password
   PG_DB=your_postgres_database
   PG_PORT=your_postgres_port
   NEWS_API_KEY=your_newsapi_key
   GNEWS_API_KEY=your_gnews_key
   GIN_MODE=debug
   

4. Run the server: go run main.go

How to test

Currently, there are no automated tests implemented. This is an area for future improvement.

How to build

To build the project, run the following command in the root directory:

go build -o go-news-api

This will create an executable named go-news-api in the current directory.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please follow these steps to contribute:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch for your feature or fix
3. Make changes and commit them with a descriptive commit message
4. Push your changes to your forked repository
5. Open a pull request to the main repository