NewsTube is a youtube interface designed for journalists or average news consumers as a better way of finding news videos. This Heroku webapp is programmed using Ruby on Rails and uses the Youtube API and Twitter API. Several databases are also used to store the zipcodes and channels. Adding more channels can be done at newstube.herokuapp.com/channels.
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Install RVM, Ruby 2.0.0, Rails 4.0.0 and Ruby Gem
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Clone this repository
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Run
bundle installto install Gems -
Run
rake db:migrateto import the database
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Please replace the API keys for both Youtube and Twitter
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The Youtube key is placed in /app/assets/javascript/search.js
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The Twitter key is placed in /app/controllers/pages_controller.rb
In order to see result locally, you can go to localhost:3000/channels and upload the zipcode.csv and channels.csv in the main folder of this repository. By uploading them, you should be able to see search results locally in the media source, local and advocacy categories.